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Video Tutorials for Business Intelligence with Excel 2007

MyVBProf.com hosts a set of great video tutorials for performing business intelligence tasks with Excel 2007. Bill Burrows starts with the installation of pre-requisites. He even shows how to make sure that Excel .Net Programmability Support is available! Wow!!

Bill then follows up with a set of tutorials on pivot tables and wraps up with videos on using the Table Analysis Tools from the SQL Server Data Mining add-ins for Excel. His approach is accessible, his style is captivating, his examples are meaningful and very well explained.

Therefore:

1. If you have SQL Server 2005 or 2008 CTP these tutorials give you a great start for BI using Excel and Analysis Service.

2. If you do not have SQL Server, get a free evaluation from http://www.microsoft.com/sql/downloads/trial-software.mspx, then go back to the previous point

3. You don’t have SQL Server, don’t want to try it out, don’t care about the data mining part — fine, just watch some of the tutorials to see what you miss!