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After receiving great feedback about From Data to Insight & Impact:  Showing Africa’s Progress with Power View and PPI by Microsoft , the Power View demonstration which showed the progress in Africa, we decided to show how we actually built this data visualization. In this latest video from...

Today, we continue our From Data to Insight & Impact blog and video series from Microsoft Finance Director Marc Reguera.  The inspiration for this demonstration stems from Marc’s diverse travels and his desire to better understand the crime rate of cities throughout the United States. ...

Today, Microsoft Finance Director Marc Reguera returns with a new installment in the “From Data to Insight & Impact” blog and video series.  After reading a special report about Africa’s progress in the March 2 nd edition of The Economist , Marc wanted to review that progress by using Power...

Thank you to the nearly 550 attendees from the 2013 Gartner BI and Analytics Summit who visited the Microsoft booth and joined our “Insights for Everyone from Any Data, Any Size, Anywhere” session at the event. Those who visited had a chance to see our Big Data and BI platforms in action, specifically...

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 View to create insightful reports as he build his...

In this latest edition of our From Data to Insight & Impact series, Microsoft Finance Director Marc Reguera shows you how to build powerful views and drill all the way down to the machine level in this case study detailing Microsoft manufacturing in Puerto Rico. In Building a Manufacturing Summary...

In this latest series of From Data to Insight & Impact blogs and videos, we share another real-life scenario where we leverage Microsoft BI to discover insight from our data through the amazing self service capabilities of Power View. Here, in this first part of our new series, we talk with Gene...

I have been in Microsoft Finance since 1994 doing analysis and leading teams, in support of very different leaders, from call center managers, to area sales lead and developer managers. I have always been immersed with data, and I have always been obsessed with being able to synthetize it and help my...

In the first post of the From Data to Insight & Impact blog series, we interviewed Microsoft Corporate Vice President Susan Hauser, who explained how her team uses Power View to get deeper insights in a shorter period of time. Here, in Part 2 of this series, Microsoft Finance Director Marc Reguera...

Welcome to our  From Data to Insight & Impact series, where we invite you to take a closer look at Power View, the BI tool that is helping business leaders across every industry drive positive impact in their business. In this series of videos and case studies, we share real-life scenarios that...

Today we have a guest post from Microsoft SQL Server MVP Dan English . Dan shares a walkthrough using Power View in Excel 2013. You can find him on twitter @denglishbi and follow his blog at http://denglishbi.wordpress.com/ . It’s been an exciting year for Microsoft’s self-service reporting...

E very so often, we’re reminded just how embedded social media is in our lives. The 2012 Summer Games is one of those milestone events, as athletes, attendees and viewers turn to social media to post, share and discuss events as they unfold. These are the Information Summer Games, where mounds...

Senior Program Manager Sean Boon has created a great blog series that visualizes and analyzes different sets of data from this year’s summer games. Each post highlights a couple features in Power View for Excel 2013 and how you can build these reports for yourself. In his first post , Sean starts...

Last week, Excel 2013 Preview, SharePoint 2013 Preview and SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 Community Technology Preview 3 (SP1 CTP3) became available for customers to download. This release comes on the heels of SQL Server 2012, released just a few months ago, which delivered a major set of Business Intelligence...

Forrester Research has positioned Microsoft as a leader in the "The Forrester Wave™: Self-Service Business Intelligence Platforms, Q2 2012" report. Forrester highlights Microsoft's approach to delivering self-service BI through the familiar tools of Excel and SharePoint. According to the report...

Today’s guest post on Power View is from Devin Knight, a Senior BI consultant at Pragmatic Works Consulting. Previously, Devin tech edited the book Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services and was an author in the books Knight's 24-Hour Trainer: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration...

Today we are excited to feature a guest post from Mike Davis, MCITP, who is the Managing Project Lead at Pragmatic Works.   He is an author of several Business intelligence books.   Mike is an experienced speaker and has presented at many events such as several SQL Server User Groups, Code...

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...