The 5 th annual Hadoop Summit is fast approaching and we are excited to participate in this great event! The Summit is June 13 – 14 at the San Jose Convention Center . It will feature use cases, tips and tricks, and will educate organizations about...

If you’ve been following the latest technology trends, you’ve probably heard quite a bit about topics such as big data, predictive analytics and self-service business intelligence (BI). Microsoft provides solutions in all these areas leveraging...

We are thrilled to announce Microsoft was selected as a winner in a number of categories for the CRN 2012 Channel Champions Awards! If you're not familiar with CRN of the Channel Champions Awards, learn more here . Below is a list of some of the categories...

What are BI Labs? We’re excited to unveil the latest BI labs project! If you’re not familiar with BI Labs, they are a series of experimental business intelligence projects made available from internal sources across Microsoft. Additional...

The 2012 Gartner BI Summit is winding down and are excited about all the great conversations we had with the attendees. Thank you to everybody who connected with us at the Summit! Now, time for some birthday cake!

Bruno Aziza gives a quick recap of the first day of the 2012 Gartner BI Summit. There are many exciting conversations going on right now centered around Big Data, Cloud and Mobile BI. Head to Microsoft.com/BI and read about our customer stories and download...

We are pleased to be participating in the Gartner BI conference in Los Angeles this week. As part of our presence at the event, I will be presenting our view on Business Analytics for the New World of Data . There has never been a more exciting time with...

We’re excited to showcase our BI Tools and SQL Server 2012 at Gartner’s Business Intelligence Summit happening next week Monday April 2 nd to Wednesday April 4 th in Los Angeles. Our 700 sq. ft. booth complete with Theater! For those...

24 Hours of Pass is once again upon us! The folks at SQLPass have put together another great round of live webcasts. Last October the sessions stretched for 12 hours for two days, and this time around the sessions will go for 24 hours straight. If...

Today, with the launch of the 2012 Strata Conference, the SQL Server Data Platform Insider blog is featuring a guest post from Dave Campbell, Microsoft Technical Fellow in Microsoft’s Server and Tools Business. Dave discusses how Microsoft is working...

The O’Reilly Strata Conference is the place to be to find out how to make data work for you. It’s starts tomorrow Tuesday February 28th and goes through Thursday March 1st. We’re excited to be participating in this great event. We’ll...

In our second Big Data technology guest blog post, we are thrilled to have Ashvini Sharma, a Group Program Manager in the SQL Server Business Intelligence group at Microsoft. Ashvini discusses how organizations can provide insights for everyone from any...

With Strata less than a week away, we are kicking off a Big Data blogging series that will highlight Microsoft’s Big Data technologies. Today’s guest post is by Torsten Grabs (torsteng(at)microsoft(dot)com), Principal Program Manager Lead...

In our next guest post, MVP Jen Stirrup provides an in-depth explanation of one of her favourite features of Power View. Read on and see how trellis charts can be used to help you get more insight from your data. You can also find Jen on Twitter @jenstirrup...

Today we have a guest post from Microsoft SQL Server MVP Dan English. Dan shares with us his initial thoughts on Power View and some of his favorite features of the tool. You can find him on twitter @denglishbi and follow his blog at http://denglishbi...

We’ve been hinting that a contest was coming, and now it has arrived. Welcome to the #MSBI Power View Contest! Power View is the new interactive data exploration, visualization, and presentation experience shipping in Reporting Services in SQL...

In our last post , we gave you an overview of Power View capabilities and a chance to play around with some demos. Now we'll take you through a guided example of how to manipulate one of those demos. However, we wanted to give everyone an opportunity...

By now, you have probably heard of Power View, the interactive data exploration, visualization, and presentation experience shipping in Reporting services in SQL Server 2012. It’s one of the features we are very excited about. Since we heard a rumor...

If you missed it, the BI team released an updated Power View demo last week. This is the same demo as the CTP3 one that was released a couple months back, but now reflects some of the new features of RC0! Be sure to watch below to see these new features...

Kaggle is one of a number of companies attracting money in the Big Data space. They recently secured an $11 million round of institutional funding, a significant amount for a first round of money. Kaggle lets organizations post problems they wish to...

Chandoo.org Purna Duggirala is the expert behind Chandoo.org . The name Chandoo comes from a nick name he was given. He has an MBA from IIM Indore and Computer Science degree from Andhra University. Because he is an avid enthusiast of analytics...

Our next series of blog posts will feature the judges of the MSBI Data MashUp contest. Learn more about the experts who have spent significant time with Excel and PowerPivot! Mr. Excel Bill Jelen is the host of MrExcel.com and has penned numerous...

This post is from Microsoft BI Architect Aneal Roney. Aneal is a Principal Consultant with Catapult Systems which is a national Microsoft-focused IT consulting company that provides application development, enterprise solutions and infrastructure services...

Our next guest post in our PASS Summit recap series is from MVP Jen Stirrup. Jen is a Director at Copper Blue Consulting . You can catch her on twitter talking BI and data visualization at @jenstirrup or follow her BI Blog . If you want to hear the...

The second guest post in our PASS Summit recap series is from MVP Dan English. Dan is a Business Intelligence Consultant for Superior Consulting Services . In addition, Dan is a member of the Minnesota Microsoft BI User Group and is an active blogger...