MOC 55061 A PerformancePoint 2013 and MDX Combo Pack

This six-day instructor-led course provides students with the necessary knowledge to work with PerformancePoint 2013 Services. The new and improved Business Intelligence Center is explored, and all the exciting new features within the SharePoint 2013 release are covered.The focus of this course is on the SharePoint 2013 business intelligence platform and not on the SQL business intelligence services.PowerPivot and Dashboards have included modules. Using the current set of tools that Microsoft has available the average user can with minimum training utilize drag-and-drop to get the answers to questions such as: sales by quarter, reseller gross profit, and products purchased by geography. They can also create graphical reports and KPIs all without writing a single line of code! (Microsoft course 50561A)But what if you need questions like this answered?What are the top 5 customers by country over the last 8 quarters?What is our reorder point based on inventory levels?What are our best customers in terms of volume and gross profit?What effect does shipping cost have on profitability on a geographical distribution?How do we calculate the year-to-date value?How do we do year-over-year growth?When looking at manufacturing how do we account only for workdays?Enter Microsoft Multidimensional Expressions (MDX). This instructor-led course is designed to take a person from the very beginning, think "Hello World" in programing to journeyman. The first chapters (1-4) get you well-grounded then from there we expand out. You won't know how to do every MDX query. You won't look at every function. But you will understand the patterns and from them you can examine examples and build on them to code your own sophisticated queries. The MBAs will love you!