Microsoft Business Intelligence - MSBI Certification Training

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About the Course

This MSBI certification training provides you with all the skills needed to work with the Microsoft Business Intelligence
stack. You will get proficiency in SQL Server, Analysis, Integration, and Reporting. This training will provide you with
enough knowledge about Data Warehousing, ETL Solutions, Connecting Managers, Transformations and other
operations.

Instructor Led Self Paced

Duration – 30 Hrs
Duration- 30Hrs
Weekend Batch –3 Hrs/Session

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Why take this Course?

Today the demand for SQL Server Business Intelligence professionals is increasing and there is a real need for
expertise in SSAS, SSIS, and SSRS. Hence with this tutorial, you can take up the highly coveted Microsoft BI jobs and
pass the MCSE: Business Intelligence Certification for a great future.

❖ 75% of Companies are Investing or Planning to Invest in Big Data by 2017 – Gartner
❖ Global BI and Analytics Market to Reach $16.9 Billion in 2016 – Gartner
❖ Average US Salary for a Microsoft BI professional is $ 107,000 – indeed.com

Course Content

MSBI SSIS Course Content:

Module /Topic
What is BI?

❖ Introduction to Business Intelligence

❖ Understanding the concept of Data Modeling, Data Cleaning
❖ Learning about Data Analysis
❖ Data Representation and Data Transformation

ETL Overview

❖ Introduction to ETL
❖ The various steps involved Extract, Transform, Load, using a user’s email ID to read a
flat file
❖ Extracting the User ID from email ID
❖ Loading the data into a database table

Working with Connection Managers

❖ Introduction to Connection Managers – logical representation of a connection

❖ The various types of Connection Managers – Flat file, database
❖ Understanding how to load faster with OLE DB
❖ Comparing the performance of OLE DB and ADO.net
❖ Learning about Bulk Insert
❖ Working with Excel Connection Managers and identifying the problems

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Data transformations

❖ Learning what is Data Transformation

❖ Converting data from one format to another
❖ Understanding the concepts of Character Map
❖ Data Column and Copy Column Transformation
❖ Import and export column transformation
❖ Script and OLEDB Command Transformation
❖ Understanding row sampling, aggregate and sort transformation
❖ Percentage and row sampling

Advance Data Transformation

❖ Understanding Pivot and UnPivot Transformation

❖ Understanding Audit and Row Count Transformation
❖ Working with Split and Join Transformation
❖ Studying Lookup and Cache Transformation
❖ Integrating with Azure Analysis Services
❖ Elastic nature of MSBI to integrate with the Azure cloud service
❖ Scale-out deployment option for MSBI, working with cloud-borne data sources and
query analysis
❖ Scaling out the SSIS package, deploying for tighter windows
❖ Working with a larger amount of data sources
❖ SQL Server vNext for enhancing SQL Server features
❖ More choice of development languages and data types both on-premise and in the
cloud

Slowly Changing Dimensions

❖ Understanding data that slowly changes over time

❖ Learning the process of how new data is written over old data, best practices
❖ Detail explanation of three types of SCDs –Type1, Type2 and Type3, and their
differences

Overview of Fuzzy Look-up Transformation and Lookup and Term Extraction

❖ Understanding how Fuzzy Lookup Transformation varies from Lookup

Transformation
❖ The concept of Fuzzy matching

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Concepts of Logging & Configuration

❖ Learning about error rows configuration, package logging

❖ Defining package configuration
❖ Understanding constraints and event handlers

MSBI SSRS Course Content

Module /Topic
Introduction to SSRS

❖ Get introduced to the SSRS Architecture

❖ Components of SSRS Report Building tool
❖ Learning about the data flow in different components

Matrix and Tablix Overview

❖ Understanding the concepts of Matrix and Tablix,

❖ Working with Text Box
❖ Learning about formatting, row/column grouping
❖ Understanding sorting, formatting, concepts of Header, Footer, Totals, Subtotals and
Page Breaks

Parameters and Expression

❖ Learning about Parameters, filter and visibility expression

❖ Understanding drill-through and drill-down
❖ Defining variables, custom code

Reports and Charts Creation

❖ Introduction to various aspects of Bar Chart, Line Chart

❖ Combination Chart, Shape Chart, Sub Reports
❖ Integration of Power Query and M language with SSRS
❖ Working with additional data sources in MSBI
❖ Rich transformation capabilities addition to MSBI
❖ Reusing M functions build for PBIX in SSRS

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Dashboard Building

❖ Learn how to build a Dashboard with Sparklines, Data Bars, Map Charts
❖ Gauge Charts and drilling into reports, the basics of ad hoc reporting
❖ Data Bar, Sparkline, Indicator, Gauge Chart, Map Chart, Report Drilling
❖ What is Ad-hoc reporting?

Reports and Authenticity

❖ Understanding Report Cache

❖ Authorization, Authentication and Report Snapshot
❖ Learning about Subscriptions and Site Security

MSBI SSAS Course Content

Module /Topic Hands-on exercises

Getting Started with SSAS

❖ Understanding the concept of multidimensional analysis

❖ Understanding SSAS Architecture and benefits
❖ Learn what is Cube
❖ Working with Tables and OLAP databases
❖ Understanding the concept of Data Sources, working
with Dimension Wizard
❖ Understanding Dimension Structure, Attribute
Relationships
❖ Flexible and rigid relationship

Structures and Processes

❖ Learning about Process Dimension

❖ The Process database, the creation of Cube ❖ Create a Cube and name
❖ Understanding Cube Structure, Cube browsing various columns
❖ Defining the various categories Deploy a cube after
❖ Product Key and Customer Key applying keys and other
❖ Column Naming rules Create reports with a
❖ Processing and deploying a Cube, Report creation with a cube
Cube

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Types of Database Relationship

❖ Understanding Data Dimensions and its importance

❖ The various relationships, regular, referenced, many to
many, fact, working on Data Partitions, and Data
Aggregations

SSAS Cube

❖ Learning about SSAS Cube, the various types of Cubes

❖ The scope of Cube and comparison with Data Warehouse

Cube: Operations and Limitations

❖ The various operations on Cube

❖ The limitations of OLAP Cubes
❖ The architecture of in-memory analytics and its
advantages

Cube and in-memory Analytics

❖ Deploying cube with existing data warehouse capabilities ❖ Deploy cube to get self-
to get self-service business intelligence service business
❖ Understanding how in-memory analytics works intelligence

Data Source View

❖ Logical model of the schema used by the Cube,

components of Cube
❖ Understanding Named Queries and Relationships
Dimensions

❖ An overview of the Dimensions concept ❖ Create role based

❖ Describing the Attributes and Attributes Hierarchies
dimensions, Use Attributes
❖ Understanding Key/Value Pairs
Hierarchies
❖ Metadata Reload, logical keys and role-based dimensions

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Measures & Features of Cube

❖ Understanding the Measure of Cube

❖ Analyzing the Measure
❖ Exploring the relationship between Measure and
Measure Group
❖ Cube features and Dimension usage

Measures and features of Cube cont.

❖ Working with Cube Measures ❖ Work with Cube Measures,

❖ Deploying analytics Deploy analytics
❖ Understanding the Key Performance Indicators ❖ Deploy actions and drill-
❖ Deploying actions and drill-through actions on data through actions on data,
❖ Working on data partitions, aggregations, translations Make data partitions
and perspectives

Working with MDX

❖ Apply Clause, Set and filter

❖ Understanding Multidimensional Expressions language
condition in MDX query to
❖ Working with MDX queries for data retrieval
retrieve data
❖ Working with Clause, Set, Tuple, Filter condition in MDX

Functions of MDX

❖ Create MDX hierarchies

❖ Learning about MDX hierarchies
❖ Perform data order in
❖ The functions used in MDX, Ancestor, Ascendant and
ascending order, in
Descendant function
descending order
❖ Performing data ordering

DAX Languages

❖ Use the EVALUATE and

❖ Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
CALCULATE functions,
❖ Using the EVALUATE and CALCULATE functions
filter DAX queries, create
❖ Filter DAX queries
calculated measures,
❖ Create calculated measures
perform data analysis by
❖ Perform data analysis by using DAX
using DAX

BI Semantic Model ❖ Design and publish a

tabular data model
❖ Designing and publishing a tabular data model ❖ Design measures
❖ Designing measures relationships relationships, hierarchies,

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❖ Hierarchies, partitions, perspectives, and calculated partitions, perspectives,
columns and calculated columns

Plan and deploy SSAS

❖ Configuring and maintaining SQL Server Analysis Services

(SSAS)
❖ Configure and maintain SQL
❖ Non-Union Memory Architecture (NUMA)
Server Analysis Services
❖ Monitoring and optimizing performance
(SSAS), Monitor and
❖ SSAS Tabular model with vNext, Excel portability,
optimize performance
importing model from Power BI Desktop
❖ Importing a Power Pivot model, the bidirectional cross-
filtering relationship in MSBI

Analyzing Big Data with Microsoft R

❖ Read data with R Server
❖ Reading data with R Server from SAS, txt, or excel from SAS, txt or excel
formats, converting data to XDF format; formats, convert data to
❖ Summarizing data, rxCrossTabs versus rxCube, extracting XDF format; Summarize
quantiles by using rxQuantile; data, Extract quantiles by
❖ Visualizing data (rxSummary and rxCube, rxHistogram and using rxQuantile; Visualize
rxLinePlot) data (rxSummary, rxCube,
❖ Processing data with rxDataStep Performing transforms rxHistogram and rxLinePlot)
using functions transformVars and transformEnvir Perform transforms using
❖ Processing text using RML packages Building predictive functions transformVars
models with ScaleR Performing in-database analytics by and transformEnvir Build
using SQL Server predictive models with
ScaleR Perform in-database
analytics by using SQL
Server

Project Work

Project 1: Configuration and Logging

Industry: General

Problem Statement: How to integrate data from multiple sources into the SQL Server

Topics: In this SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) project you will extensively work on multiple data from the
heterogeneous source into SQL Server. As part of the project, you will learn to clean and standardize data and
automate the administrative work. Some of the tasks that you will be performing are adding logs to SSIS package,
configuration and saving it to an XML file. Upon completion of the project, you will have hands-on experience in
handling constraints, error row configuration, and event handlers.

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Highlight:

❖ Integrate data from heterogeneous sources

❖ Working with Connection Manager
❖ Deploying data modeling

Project 2: SSAS Cube Using BI Data Tools 2012

Industry: Sales

Problem Statement: How to create the SSAS Cubes for faster reporting

Topics – In this project, you will be work on a large volume of data and use it for creating reports and dashboards for
sales performance in order to derive valuable insights. You will deploy the sales database in SQL server and build
SSAS Cubes. Upon completion of the project, you will be well-versed to work in a real-world business scenario to
analyze various parameters and instances in order to derive business insights.

Highlights:

❖ Create multidimensional cubes

❖ Deploying MDX query language
❖ Working with in-memory analytics

Project 3: Building Dashboard

Data: Sales

Topics: In this project, you will be working on SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and deploying it for building
dashboards in a business environment. The Business Intelligence Report that you create will be used to calculate
sales based on the years and currencies that you choose. Some of the tasks that you will be performing as part of
this project are – design and create Gauge and Map Charts, Spark lines and Data Bar and perform drill-through
Reports, and ad hoc Reporting.

Project 4: Analyzing the Retails Sales Data

Industry: Retail

Problem Statement: Improving the business revenue of a retail enterprise by minutely analyzing the data regarding
products, customers, sales and coming up with business insights.

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Description: This project first consolidates all the data from multiple data sources like SQL Server, Oracle, and DB2
among others. This data is then processed using the OLAP capabilities of Microsoft Business Intelligence or MSBI
tool.

Highlights:

❖ Load data into the data warehouse using SSIS

❖ Build OLAP cubes using SSAS
❖ Generate report, analyze & present SSRS

Project 5: Working with data warehouse and generating reports

Industry: Manufacturing

Problem Statement: A manufacturing company wants to parse the data from enterprise data warehouse and create
insightful reports.

Description: In this project, you will extract the data periodically from the enterprise data warehouse. You will work
with applications that support business processes, and you will validate, reformat, reorganize, summarize and
restructure the data and load it into the enterprise data warehouse. This data is then taken for report generation,
analysis and presentation through ad hoc reporting and dashboard creation.

Highlights:

❖ Load data into the data warehouse using SSIS

❖ Build OLAP cubes using SSAS for data analysis
❖ Generate Reports using SSRS for data visualization

Project 6: E-commerce Company wants to improve sales

Industry: E-commerce

Problem Statement: Using the MSBI tool for improving sales by closely analyzing the products, sales, regions and
other parameters

Description: In this project, you will design and build a data warehouse to track sales information for all the regions.
You will create powerful reports for understanding the data and take informed decisions. The dataset has
information regarding products, sales, customers, regions, profit margin and so on.

Highlights:

❖ Integrate data in a data warehouse using SSIS

❖ Analyze customers, regions using SSAS
❖ Report the data through dashboards using SSRS

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Intellipaat Job Assistance Program

Intellipaat is offering comprehensive job assistance to all the learners who have successfully completed the training. A
learner will be considered to have successfully completed the training if he/she finishes all the exercises, case studies,
projects and gets a minimum of 60% marks in the Intellipaat qualifying exam.

Intellipaat has exclusive tie-ups with over 80 MNCs for placement. All the resumes of eligible candidates will be
forwarded to the Intellipaat job assistance partners. Once there is a relevant opening in any of the companies, you will
get a call directly for the job interview from that particular company.

Frequently Asked Questions:

Q 1. What is the criterion for availing the Intellipaat job assistance program?

Ans. All Intellipaat learners who have successfully completed the training post April 2017 are directly eligible for
the Intellipaat job assistance program.

Q 2. Which are the companies that I can get placed in?

Ans. We have exclusive tie-ups with MNCs like Ericsson, Cisco, Cognizant, Sony, Mu Sigma, Saint-Gobain,
Standard Chartered, TCS, Genpact, Hexaware, and more. So you have the opportunity to get placed in these top
global companies.

Q 3. Does Intellipaat help learners to crack the job interviews?

Ans. Intellipaat has an exclusive section which includes the top interview questions asked in top MNCs for most of
the technologies and tools for which we provide training. Other than that our support and technical team can also
help you in this regard.

Q 4. Do I need to have prior industry experience for getting an interview call?

Ans. There is no need to have any prior industry experience for getting an interview call. In fact, the successful
completion of the Intellipaat certification training is equivalent to six months of industry experience. This is
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Q 5. What is the job location that I will get?

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Ans. Depending on the Intellipaat certification training you have successfully completed, you will be placed in the
same domain.

Q 7. Is there any fee for the Intellipaat placement assistance?

Ans. Intellipaat does not charge any fees as part of the placement assistance program.

Q 8. If I don’t get a job in the first attempt, can I get another chance?

Ans. Definitely, yes. Your resume will be in our database and we will circulate it to our MNC partners until you get
a job. So there is no upper limit to the number of job interviews you can attend.

Q 9. Does Intellipaat guarantee a job through its job assistance program?

Ans. Intellipaat does not guarantee any job through the job assistance program. However, we will definitely offer
you full assistance by circulating your resume among our affiliate partners.

Q 10. What is the salary that I will be getting once I get the job?

Ans. Your salary will be directly commensurate with your abilities and the prevailing industry standards.

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