Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services

Build your SQL Reporting, Power View, and SharePoint BI skills Whether you're creating an invoice for a small business or a BI dashboard to help manage a multinational corporation, you need to deliver accurate information. This book shows you how to accomplish this by walking you through Microsoft's reporting platform. You'll dive into SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services' architecture and BI fundamentals, as well as the key ingredients to successful report design. You'll then get up to speed on building business reports with Report Builder and using Power View to make fast, interactive, visual analytics pervasive and accessible to business users. Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services: Demonstrates self-service reporting with Report Builder, using wizards, and simple design tools Helps you design highly visual and attractive business reports with dynamic formatting, drill-down, and drill-through actions Provides the tools to build BI dashboards, scorecards, and performance indicators Demonstrates building BI Semantic Models, interactively exploring data in Power View, and creating compelling presentations Features helpful examples, hands-on code, and resourceful solutions for common problems Demonstrates how to integrate Reporting Services with SharePoint, configure and use Power View, and manage a native mode report server Wrox Professional guides are written by working developers to address everyday needs. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job. wrox.com Programmer Forums Join our Programmer to Programmer forums to ask and answer programming questions about this book, join discussions on the hottest topics in the industry, and connect with fellow programmers from around the world. Code Downloads Take advantage of free code samples from this book, as well as code samples from hundreds of other books, all ready to use. Read More Find articles, ebooks, sample chapters, and tables of contents for hundreds of books, and more reference resources on programming topics that matter to you.