February, 2013

In this new edition to the Data to Insight & Impact series, Microsoft Finance Director Marc Reguera shows you how to build insightful views in Power View starting from a PDF document and using sales of U.S. car as an example. Watch Marc use Power...

Big things are taking place for big data this week at the O’Reilly® Strata Conference in Santa Clara, California. Whether you’re at the conference, or you’re on your home turf this week with your hands buried deep in your own big data, there are two simple...

Lately we’ve seen a lot of articles calling data scientists and statisticians the jobs of the future. While I agree that we’ll probably see an increase in those types of jobs, I think they will still stay niche roles. I believe there are more immediate...

In today’s economic climate, the need for comprehensive Business Intelligence capability driving competitive advantage across the business has never been higher yet limitations of existing toolsets and the urgent need to control costs all too often act...

Microsoft nominated The Weather Channel for the Gartner Business Intelligence Excellence Award based on their 2012 initiative to implement a flexible BI solution based on Microsoft SQL Server 2012. The award, launched in 2005, recognizes recent business...

Microsoft nominated Great Western Bank for the Gartner Business Intelligence Excellence Award based on the success of their business intelligence and analytics initiatives. The award, launched in 2005, recognizes recent business intelligence (BI) implementations...

Questions and Answers to the #24HOP Challenge Thanks to all who attended the 24 Hours of Pass: Business Analytics Edition last week and for your participation in the 24 Hours of Pass Challenge , held on Twitter via @MicrosoftBI . The sessions were chock...

Hello Business Intelligence community! My name is Eron Kelly and I recently took the role of General Manager of Product Marketing for the Data Platform at Microsoft. I’ve been at Microsoft for over 12 years in various product marketing roles on BizTalk...