Currency Conversion (and Much More) in Analysis Services

Want to learn more about Analysis Services and MDX? Learn about the numerous features in Analysis Services 2005 and 2008 as well as dimension/cube design. It is all tied together to discuss and apply the options available for currency conversion. You will leave understanding some of the nuances of Analysis Services to get the most out of your OLAP implementation.

Christian Wade, Globetrotter and Senior Consultant at EMC Consulting, will join us to discuss: Types of Currency Conversion
Dimensional modeling
Many-to-many dimensions
Time dimensions
Semi-additive measures
Measure expressions
MDX query authoring and optimization
MDX scripting
The Business Intelligence Wizard

Who should attend? Business Intelligence professionals, Developers, Architects, Users.

Christian Wade is a senior consultant with EMC Consulting specializing in Microsoft BI solutions for the oil and gas sector. He is from the UK and has been working in an oil field in the Californian desert for over 2 years (lovely!). While living in the UK, Christian was an active SQL community member. He spoke at the PASS 2005 Community Summit in Dallas and the 2005 European PASS Conference in Munich, Germany, as well as presenting on numerous occasions at Microsoft UK Headquarters. He has also written technical articles for SQL Server Central magazine.