Wrox Professional Microsoft Sharepoint 2007 reporting with SQL sever 2008 reporting services review

I'am currently working on a Microsoft Sharepoint business intelligence project.

To prepare for the project I read the book Wrox Professional Microsoft Sharepoint 2007 reporting with SQL sever 2008 reporting services.

What a disappointment that was! Do not read or buy the book, if you are a tiny bit familiar with reporting and deploying. I really thought it would go in-depth, combining Microsoft Sharepoint and business intelligence. Talking about structure, function, enc. But that’s not the case.

The first 9 chapters is about creating reports and deploying. Chapter 10 is about some overrated and complex AJAX solution to deploy and display your reports. Chapter 11 is about gauges. Very short and obvious.

Off course everybody needs a basic understanding and every organizational needs are different, but there is an certain essential that is missed.

Deployment is very imported, but not worth 3 chapters. Especially not when your pretty new to this, and that’s the books audience. You want to know how to create a fast, efficient and good solution for the end-users.

Summarizing:
If you want to know more about deployment and care less about how the reports are shown and interact, this book is for you (although is pretty expensive for what you get). If not, please find another book. There are much better books out there.

http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/Professional-Microsoft-SharePoint-2007-Reporting-with-SQL-Server-2008-Reporting-Services.productCd-0470481897.html



Professional Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Reporting with SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services
Coskun Cavusoglu, Jacob J. Sanford, Reza Alirezaei
ISBN: 978-0-470-48189-9
Paperback
480 pages
September 2009