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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...

PASS invites you to help shape the PASS Business Analytics Conference educational program by submitting session abstracts that fall within the following topics and address the needs of our key audiences – Business Analysts, Data Scientists, Data Architects and BI practitioners: Advanced Analytics and...

Author : Jenifer Underwood , Sr. Technical Product Manager, Microsoft SQL Server Business Intelligence In this new world of exploding data volumes, the ability to make sense of all this data and effectively communicate insights from it is a highly valued skillset. Communicating trustworthy insights includes...

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...

24 Hours of Pass is once again upon us! The folks at SQLPass have put together another great round of live webcasts. Last October the sessions stretched for 12 hours for two days, and this time around the sessions will go for 24 hours straight. If you haven’t attended one of these webcasts yet...

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 with the big data community and ecosystem to...

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 be covering a wide range of hot topics including...

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...

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 to let you know you can catch a recap of Corporate...

In this video we will be demoing SQL Server Project "Crescent," a new immersive ad-hoc visualization tool that is part of SQL Server Code Name "Denali" Reporting Services. Project "Crescent" is designed with end users in mind to quickly, easily, and visually explore their data and answer ad-hoc questions...

How much do you know about Microsoft Business Intelligence? Are you ready to put your knowledge to the test? If so, then demonstrate your knowledge in the #MSBI Twitter Contest happening on our official Twitter channel ( @MicrosoftBI )! We will ask questions about Microsoft BI technologies, solutions...

I can’t believe it’s only two weeks until TechEd North America. It is shaping up to a great event and I hope we’ll see many of you in Atlanta during the week of May 16th – 19th. If you’ve been to previous TechEd’s you know there’s a lot of ground to cover, with...