February, 2012

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...