October, 2011

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...

Today we are excited to share our first in a series of posts from guest attendees at PASS Summit 2011. Our first post is from UK-based Microsoft MVP Chris Webb. Chris is an independent consultant and trainer specializing in Analysis Services and is the...

We have had a busy week at the annual SQL Server user conference ( PASS ) and we wanted to share some of the exciting news and announcements coming from the event. During the Day 1 keynote , Corporate Vice President Ted Kummert shared his views on...

A few months ago, we announced our commitment to Apache Hadoop™ providing details on interoperability between SQL Server and Hadoop. As we have noted in the past, in the data deluge faced by businesses, there is an increasing need to store and analyze...

What an amazing first day at the PASS Summit. We saw some amazing demos of BI on Hadoop data, Mobile BI and the latest features of Power View. We hope all the attendees are enjoying the sessions as much as we are! PASS is in full swing, but we wanted...

PASS Summit 2011 starts this Wednesday and we’re very excited to share all the great content to attendees and the rest of the community who will be tuning in via the web. The SQL Server and Microsoft BI social teams will be present at the PASS Summit...

PASS Summit for SQL Professionals is coming up next week, October 11 th through October 14 th in Seattle and we wanted to take an opportunity to highlight the BI-focused sessions at the event. So what can you expect to learn at PASS Summit from a BI perspective...