Morgan Kaufmann Business Intelligence Guidebook: From Data Integration to Analytics

Cubre gran parte de los temas necesarios para BI, de fácil lectura, pero con profundidad en los detalles técnicos

I want to be an expert in business intelligence.

It looked like an interesting book but it was far too techical for my husband so we decided to return it.

This textbook is a rare thing. Not from it's difficulty in obtaining, or due to the price being well below the norm of $100. What is rare about it is that it actually feels like they are trying to make it for someone who wants to learn the information, rather than simply writing it for a class; that is, it prioritizes learning over merely informing.I found my first indication of this as I went to place sticky-note flags marking the individual chapters for later study - I typically do this so that when referencing one chapter I can more quickly get back to it. I realized that the flags were coinciding with these black markers on the side, and quickly realized that the way they printed the book off, there are black lines on the side that indicate where the part starts are, and where each chapter was. I know this is a small thing, and really not relevant to the actual content of the book, but it's just so refreshing to see that the publisher or author was concerned about efficacy rather than merely the bottom-line.As for the content itself, there is little "fluff" or waste throughout the book. As I said before, it's designed with the task of informing in mind, and as such, it does not go off on tangents or over-explain anything. Anything that requires a tangential explanation is typically all contained within the same chapter. In a classroom setting, I could see this being useful if the book is being used to explain a specific subset of a field, as you can easily skip sections irrelevant to the classroom without having to summarize the preceding section.The only thing missing from my "checklist" when it comes to textbooks would be a summation of the individual chapters - summation of chapters are typically a staple of most textbooks. However, when I considered that the chapters were written with minimal waste, I instead feel that a summary would be unnecessary. The chapters are generally as long as they need to be, ranging from 10 pages to 40, and there are pages in some chapters that give a decent enough overview of information, such as in the first chapter when it concluded with a definitions table, something that no further chapter finished with.Overall, it's a good textbook about explaining Business Intelligence, and it's nice that it doesn't cost any limbs to purchase. If I had the option to choose between this and other textbooks, I can't see any reason not to choose this book. The only other thing I'd like to note is that I am a MIS major, so it's possible that I might be overrating it by a star simply because I was more familiar with the subject matter and did not get confused with any of the sections that another might, but even if there was a section that would make less sense to someone not directly involved in the field, I still feel that it would be a useful resource well worth the price.

this is a book that provide all information about Business Intelligence Process, so if you are or preparing working on the Business Intelligence, recommend to read this, but many of content is repeated several time in books, so this book could be not so much pages, anyway, it worth to read through quickly