Overview
Once the cube is deployed and ready to host queries from the data store, client applications can start querying the cube. One of the most user friendly client tools for business users to query a cube is Microsoft Excel. It has a built-in interface and components to support GUI based connection, querying and formatting of data sourced from a cube. Business users can use the familiar interface of Excel and create ad-hoc pivot table reports by querying the cube without any detailed knowledge about querying a multi-dimensional data source. We will connect to the cube we just created using Excel and develop a very simple report using the cube data.
Siddharth has more than 14 years of experience in the IT Industry, with more than a decade of experience in Business Intelligence and Analytics, for clients banking, logistics, government, Media Entertainment, products, life sciences and other domains. He has been a lead architect for a portfolio of 40+ apps, containing apps in web, mobile, BI, Analytics, data warehousing, reporting, collaboration, CMS, NoSQL and other technologies. He has several certifications and is a published author for online and print-media publications, as well as the MSDN Library.
In his present role, he remains responsible for architecture design, technology stack selection, infrastructure design, 3rd party products evaluation and procurement, and performance engineering. These applications use technologies like Elasticsearch / Lucene, MongoDB, SharePoint 2013 and 2010, jQuery-based framework like Highcharts and GoJS, SQL Server and the Microsoft Business Intelligence stack (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, MDX, PowerPivot, PowerView), jQueryMobile, Bootstrap, iOS xCode framework, and many others.
- MSSQLTips Awards: Champion (100+ tips) – 2018 | Author of the Year – 2017 | Author Contender – 2016, 2018-2019