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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 tools that many people are already using today...

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 respect to the world of data. We are seeing the...

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 attending, we will be onsite with a 700 sq. ft. booth...

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 and follow her blog at http://www.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.wordpress.com/ . My personal thoughts on Power...

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 to dive into Power View and walk you through the...

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 that it could be the subject of a future contest...

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 in action. If you’re wondering what’s...

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. In addition to working with clients on Business...

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 latest SQL Server news first – then go to SQLPass...

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 on BI-related topics. Just this month I was fortunate...

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 owner of Crossjoin Consulting . In addition, Chris...

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 the ‘New World of Data’ and disclosed...