Several members from the RDA BI team have put together an Unleashed Series book covering Business Intelligence with SharePoint 2010 and can be found online at the following link: http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0132660113.
The release date for the book is May 9th, 2011 and was written by: Chuck Rivel, Ray Barley, Jim Pletscher, Aneel Ismaily and Steve Mann (who was the original editor of the RDA Blog site and former team lead for the RDA BI Team)
The book covers working with the Microsoft BI stack for SQL Server 2008 R2 and SharePoint 2010, which involves the following services and applications: PerformancePoint Services, Reporting Services, PowerPivot, Visio Services and the SharePoint 2010 Business Intelligence Center.
The following is the the official book description as published on the informIT website:
“SharePoint 2010 is rapidly emerging as the preferred presentation and deployment system for Business Intelligence (BI) solutions that use the Microsoft technology stack. This is a complete guide to both SharePoint 2010 and BI. This book reflects the unsurpassed real-world experience of five expert consultants at RDA, a Microsoft Gold Partner specializing in delivering advanced BI solutions with SharePoint. The authors offer practical, how-to guidance for every key task involved in building, configuring, and deploying BI solutions within a SharePoint environment, delivering crucial information that can't be found in any other book. They bridge the gap between SharePoint 2010 and SQL Server 2008, carefully guiding technical professionals on utilizing BI data stored in SQL Server databases. Both a hands-on tutorial and a thorough reference, SharePoint 2010 BI Unleashed will be an indispensable resource for every BI developer, implementer, manager, or integrator working with Microsoft technologies. “
If looking for help on how to integrate the BI stack into your SharePoint 2010 environment, this book provides a thorough reference to the applications listed above as well as provides real world step by step examples on how to integrate several of the BI components to build a complete BI solution.
