Business Intelligence Competency Centers: A Team Approach to Maximizing Competitive Advantage (Wiley and SAS ...3 reviews Gloria J. Miller, Dagmar Brautigam, ... Wiley, 2006 A good choice if you're considering the subject of Business Intelligence... + Envision the activities of your analytical team When I think of "business intelligence", I tend to envision the gathering of competitive information. But it's really much, much more than that. The book Business Intelligence Competency Centers: A Team Approach to Maximizing Competitive Advantage by Gloria J. Miller, Dagmar Brautigam, and ...             Decision Modeling with Microsoft(R) Excel (6th Edition)8 reviews Jeffrey H. Moore, Larry R. Weatherford Prentice Hall, 2001 Excellent book + Fasten your seatbelts... This book is definitely very advanced and is very clearly written. The approach will: - state (and explain) business problems - explain the rational in choosing the computer tool (despite the title, the book is not entirely focused on Excel). - walk you step by step through the modeling process The ...             Decision Support Systems (2nd Edition)1 review George M. Marakas Prentice Hall, 2002 Uninspiring graphics I have had to read the entire text for a course, and it is not a particularly interesting book to read - at times the author seems a bit verbose. Figures in the textbook are in black, gray and white - very monotonous. Most have a gradient background that fades from dark grey to white. This makes ...             Beyond the Balanced Scorecard: Improving Business Intelligence with Analytics2 reviews Mark Graham Brown Productivity Press, 2007 Another Glowing Success + Great read on scorecarding One of the key points I took away from Mark's new book is that analytics can form the basis of a dynamic approach to performance management. Dynamic in the sense that analytics can be adjusted to be more responsive to changing directions in the market, the economy, employee profile or whatever is ...             Improving Data Warehouse and Business Information Quality: Methods for Reducing Costs and Increasing Profits17 reviews Larry P. English Wiley, 1999 The bible of IQ + Deming for data + Answers Business Executives Concerns on Data Warehousing + This is a "must-have" guide + Data is an Asset             Business Intelligence for the Enterprise (IBM DB2 Certification Guides)5 reviews Mike Biere IBM Press, 2003 For once -- a business book about technology and a MUST READ + Useful because it's non-technical + A thoughtful and thought-provoking book about BI ... ...... If you: - are tired of the increasingly unintelligible hype around corporate IT - need to get your feet on the ground about how to apply IT for creating business value - want to understand business intelligence for what it can really do for your organization (as opposed to what the product ...             Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning58 reviews Thomas H. Davenport, Jeanne G. Harris Harvard Business School Press, 2007 Five stars but... for the right audience! + "Going by the Gut" may be going by the wayside I was excited by the title, some of the reviews and rushed to buy this. Read it quite fast and got little disappointed. Probably the correct title could be ''Advocacy for Competing on Analytics''. To be clear, the book is very good if you are: a student, a junior project manager, a junior ...             Mission Critical: Realizing the Promise of Enterprise Systems12 reviews Thomas H. Davenport Harvard Business School Press, 2000 An ES Manifesto with Instructions + Best book on strategic issues of ERP systems + Good insights on ERP [for management]... + Knowledgable, Hot Topics -but poor organization + A prerequisite for e-commerce             Business Intelligence5 reviews MICHAEL LUCKE ELIZABETH VITT Microsoft Press, 2002 Concise, Practical and Inspiring Advice + Great book, perfectly pitched + Excellent starting point for DW/BI background knowledge + Good read if you are a non techie + A great primer             Enterprise Dashboards: Design and Best Practices for IT6 reviews Shadan Malik Wiley, 2005 A Dashboard Implementation Primer + Enterprise Dashboards This is a book aimed at the experienced business intelligence developer or the C level executive. It provides a sound methodological framework for using enterprise dashboards as a fundamental performance management tool. This is a 'must read' for anyone contemplating dashboard deployment in their ...             Business Intelligence: The Savvy Manager's Guide (The Savvy Manager's Guides)10 reviews David Loshin Morgan Kaufmann, 2003 Great Pimer for BI + Useful introduction to the vocabulary, practices, and key concepts of Business Intelligence + Excellent Book for BI Overview + Discover the full corporate impact of having a Business Intelligence Strategy             Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data41 reviews Stephen Few O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006 Easy to read and simple to understand + Essential Reading for Presenters of Data at all Organizations + drags you to read it!! + Clear, concise, and cleanly designed and presented.             Instant Systems (Instant Success)12 reviews Bradley J Sugars, Brad Sugars McGraw-Hill, 2005 The Next Business Book You Must Read + Instant Systems (Instant Success) Instant Systems takes the business owner through the 9 steps necessary to systemize ANY business. Each step is methodically explained and follows a logical sequence. I have put the ideas to use in my own business and now I understand that I am destined to repeat every task until I write it down. ...             Applied Microsoft Analysis Services 2005: And Microsoft Business Intelligence Platform23 reviews Teo Lachev Prologika Press, 2005 Great reference + good, but not great + Easy understanding + Not a bad resource             Decision Trees for Business Intelligence and Data Mining: Using SAS Enterprise Miner1 review Barry De Ville SAS Publishing, 2006 For descent understanding of Decision Trees using SAS A good book to understand decision trees using SAS e-miner. I wish it could have more literature on the splitting algorithms i.e. Gini, Entropy, Chisquare. The book along with SAS data mining material or Data Mining book by Larose is a good resource to understand Decision Tree.             Introduction to Online Competitive Intelligence Research (Business Research Solutions) Conor Vibert South-Western Educational Pub, 2004 Introduction to Online Competitive Intelligence Research gives you the tools you need to stay ahead of your competitor's moves. Numerous research problem scenarios and cases with suggested search strategies are included. Step-by-step methodology takes you through the CI research process, including planning and direction, data collection, analysis and dissemination. One section provides insight ...             Business Intelligence Roadmap: The Complete Project Lifecycle for Decision-Support Applications ...18 reviews Larissa T. Moss, Shaku Atre Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003 Great for a PM + Great reference + Excellent book - for beginners... + Good organized document + Good Practical advice             OLAP Solutions: Building Multidimensional Information Systems21 reviews Erik Thomsen Wiley, 2002 A must read for anybody involved in Olap design + Fundamental Olap principles + Good OLAP Methodology A book which gives you a comprehensive theoretical foundation together with useful, pratical techniques to design Olap solutions. In the first half of the book the author explains you all you need to think clearly in N dimensions, in the second half he guides you through the design of a rather ...             Business Intelligence For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance))1 review Swain Scheps For Dummies, 2008 Excellent primer Well written overview. Humorous and easy to read. The author really knows the topic. A great addition to your business strategy library.             Spreadsheet Modeling and Decision Analysis (with CD-ROM and Microsoft Project 2003 120 day version)14 reviews Cliff Ragsdale South-Western College Pub, 2006 Great book, and includes @RISK + Spreadsheet Modeling and Decision Analysis (with CD-ROM and Microsoft Project 2003 120 day version) + A Good Book for Finance/IT majors + Good practical text