For most companies today, collecting data from back-end systems is not a problem. Rather, the challenge lies in cost-effectively integrating, analyzing, and presenting the data in order to gain competitive advantage, protect your market position, and easily pursue new business opportunities.

TechPath can help you uncover fundamental business value from your data with our proven Business Intelligence solutions. We’ll work with you to define, design, and implement a complete BI strategy that fits the unique requirements of your business, integrates with your existing infrastructure, and leverages your existing investments. Microsoft's BI offering is stronger than ever, and is replacing many of its competitors in large enterprise organizations.

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TechPath has assembled an indepth BI Primer.  You can dowload the entire TechPath BI Primer, or just select the chapters that are relevant to you.

Chapter 1, Introduction: Introduces what is in the primer and the scope of the document.

Chapter 2, Fundamentals: Introduces fundamental BI application architecture concepts and terminology. You will get an introduction to common architectural styles, its principles and how that will shape the design of a solution. You will also learn about various deployment patterns and factors that influence your deployment scenarios.

Chapter 3, Microsoft BI Platform: This chapter will define the Microsoft products that are utilized when delivering a Microsoft focused BI Platform.  This will include details on how Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint technologies and Microsoft Office contribute to an overall Microsoft focused BI Platform.

Chapter 4, Presentation Layer: Defines how the presentation layer fits into the overall BI architecture. This chapter also delivers a very comprehensive review of all the various sub systems that comprise the presentation layer as well as the multitude of choices that are available to help visualize a BI system. This chapter defines an approach to consider when designing the presentation layer.

Chapter 5, Information Layer – Reporting: This chapter provides a description of all the components that participate on information related activities to support the reporting layer of business intelligence applications. An approach is defined to consider when designing the reporting aspects of the information layer.

Chapter 6, Information Layer – Analysis: This chapter outlines and describes how the analysis layer fits into the overall business intelligence architecture. Concepts such as Cubes, Analytics and Storage are considered. This chapter defines an approach to consider when designing the analysis layer.

Chapter 7, Data Layer: This chapter contains the components that implement high performance data integration using extraction, transformation, and load (ETL) from various data sources and destinations. This chapter defines an approach to consider when designing the ETL processes and data strategy for the overall BI Solution.

Chapter 8, BI Deployment Patterns: This chapter helps to understand what a business intelligence deployment is and what it evolves. The chapter outlines the various types of deployments that are common.