About the Book
SharePoint 2010 is rapidly emerging as the preferred presentation and deployment system for Business Intelligence (BI) solutions that use the Microsoft technology stack. This is a complete guide to both SharePoint 2010 and BI. This book reflects the unsurpassed real-world experience of five expert consultants at RDA, a Microsoft Gold Partner specializing in delivering advanced BI solutions with SharePoint. The authors offer practical, how-to guidance for every key task involved in building, configuring, and deploying BI solutions within a SharePoint environment, delivering crucial information that can't be found in any other book. They bridge the gap between SharePoint 2010 and SQL Server 2008, carefully guiding technical professionals on utilizing BI data stored in SQL Server databases. Both a hands-on tutorial and a thorough reference, SharePoint 2010 BI Unleashed will be an indispensable resource for every BI developer, implementer, manager, or integrator working with Microsoft technologies.
About the Author: Steve Mann was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he still resides today. He is an Enterprise Applications Engineer for Morgan Lewis and has more than 17 years of professional experience. Steve was previously a Principal Architect for RDA Corporation where he worked for over 13 years.
For the past 8 years, he has primarily focused on collaboration and business intelligence solutions using Microsoft technologies. Steve managed the internal BI Practice Group at RDA for several years. He was also heavily involved within RDA's Collaboration/Search Practice Group. He has authored and co-authored several books related to the subject of SharePoint Server 2010. Steve's blog site can be found at www.SteveTheManMann.com.
Chuck Rivel is currently employed at RDA as a Principal Architect which involves scoping, designing, developing and delivering custom data warehouse projects for many different industries. He has over 14 years' experience working with MS technologies and the last 8 years have been focused on DW\BI development. Currently, he is the BI Technical Lead for RDA, which is responsible for the technical direction of the BI team within RDA and for creating training programs for existing RDA employees to learn the BI toolset.
Ray Barley is a Principal Architect at RDA Corporation and has worked as a developer, analyst, project manager, architect, trainer and independent consultant. He has been focused on architecting and delivering Business Intelligence solutions since 2005. Ray helps to run the Baltimore SQL Server User group, is a frequent speaker at local user group meetings, and a frequent contributor to MSSQLTips.com.
Jim Pletscher is a Senior BI Consultant with RDA and has worked in the IT field for more than 15 years. Jim first began exploring OLAP technologies with SQL Server 2000, and has worked extensively with SQL Server 2005 and 2008, developing Reporting and Analysis solutions for numerous clients in a variety of industries over the past 8+ years. He is originally from Pennsylvania, and lives there now, but has also lived in Northern California as well.
Aneel Ismaily was born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan and then moved to the United States at the age of 18. Since then he has lived in Atlanta, GA. Aneel joined Georgia State University in 2001 and finished his BS degree from there in Computer Science. He is currently enrolled in a professional MBA program at Georgia State University and expecting to graduate in Dec, 2012. Aneel brings over eight years of experience to RDA in designing, developing, deploying, and supporting Business Intelligence Solutions. He currently holds Sr. Software Engineer Position with RDA. Prior to RDA, Aneel was employed at BCD Travel as a BI Solution Developer and previously as a Database Administrator. You can learn more about Aneel at http: //www.linkedin.com/in/aismaily.
