Microsoft Office 2007 Business Intelligence or Observing the User Experience

Microsoft Office 2007 Business Intelligence

Author: Doug Harts

Extract and analyze mission-critical enterprise data using Microsoft Office 2007

This authoritative volume is a practical guide to the powerful new collaborative Business Intelligence tools available in Office 2007. Using real-world examples and clear explanations, Microsoft Office 2007 Business Intelligence: Reporting, Analysis, and Measurement from the Desktop shows you how to use Excel, Excel Services, SharePoint, and PerformancePoint with a wide range of stand-alone and external data in today's networked office. You will learn how to analyze data and generate reports, scorecards, and dashboards with the Office tools you're already using to help you in your everyday work.

• Create Excel PivotTables and PivotCharts and apply Conditional Formatting
• Convert Excel spreadsheets into Excel Tables with Conditional Formatting and Charting

  Table of Contents:

  Foreword
  
  Preface
  
  Acknowledgments
  
  Chapter 1. Introduction to Microsoft Office BI Concepts
  
  Chapter 2. PivotTables, PivotCharts, and Conditional Formatting
  
  Chapter 3. Excel Tables: Conditional Formatting, What-If and Statistics, and Charts
  
  Chapter 4. Excel and External Data: Files, Databases, Cubes, and Data from the Internet
  
  Chapter 5. Excel and SharePoint: Reports, Key Performance Indicators, and Dashboards
  
  Chapter 6. Excel and Data Mining: Key Influencers, Categories, and Forecasting
  
  Chapter 7. PerformancePoint: Dashboards, Scorecards, and Key Performance Indicators
  
  Chapter 8. Office BI: Office, Visio, Windows Mobile, Office Online, SQL Server, and Virtual Earth
  
  Index

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  Observing the User Experience: A Practioner's Guide for User Research

  Author: Mike Kuniavsky

  Wow! So many of the user experience research methods we have refined and used over the years are now organized and described in detail in one book.
  --Christian Rohrer, Manager, User Experience Research, Yahoo!
  
  I love Observing the User Experience! This comprehensive guide approaches user experience research like never before, and is well-written, easy-to-read, and quite user friendly. It provides a real-world example of how research is done in just enough detail that it can both inform a CEO of the role of usability research as well as introduce methodology to someone starting out in the field. Bravo!
  --Kelly Braun, Usability Manager, Ebay
  
  The gap between who designers and developers imagine their users are, and who those users really are can be the biggest problem with product development. Observing the User Experience will help you bridge that gap to understand what your users want and need from your product, and whether they'll be able to use what you've created.
  
  Filled with real-world experience and a wealth of practical information, this book presents a complete toolbox of techniques to help designers and developers see through the eyes of their users. It provides in-depth coverage of 13 user experience research techniques that will provide a basis for developing better products, whether they're Web, software or mobile based. In addition, it's written with an understanding of how software is developed in the real world, taking tight budgets, short schedules, and existing processes into account.
  
  Features and benefits:
  
  •Explains how to create usable products that are still original, creative, and unique
  
  •A valuableresource for designers, developers, project managers—anyone in a position where their work comes in direct contact with the end user.
  
  •Provides a real-world perspective on research and provides advice about how user research can be done cheaply, quickly and how results can be presented persuasively
  
  •Gives readers the tools and confidence to perform user research on their own designs and tune their software user experience to the unique needs of their product and its users