Father’s Day is approaching and you might be thinking about a good place to have a nice lunch with your Dad… We would like to show you how Data Explorer and Geoflow can help you gather some insights to make a good decision. In order to achieve this, we...

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 Explorer Preview for Excel represents a new way to discover, combine and refine data for your self-service BI needs. If you are new to Data Explorer, here are 5 key concepts to get you caught up on how Data Explorer can fundamentally improve the...

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...

Last month, we asked, “What do you Excel at?” and after thousands of you took the ‘So You Think You Know Excel’ Challenge on Facebook, we have the answer! You excel at rising to a challenge and digging both feet in to have some fun and learn a little...

Great things are taking place at PASS Business Analytics Conference (PASS BAC) this week in Chicago, and you can keep up with it all!  In fact, this new conference is the place to be for business intelligence and data professionals to connect, with...

The newly published article, Mobile Support Across Business Intelligence (BI) Technologies, outlines the mobile devices and mobile operating systems you can use with SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, SQL Server Reporting Services, and Office 365. It includes...

With one week to go until the PASS Business Analytics Conference in Chicago, IL, guest blogger and PASS BAC speaker, Marco Russo joins us today to give us his perspective on the dynamic world of business analytics.    M arco Russo (@marcorus...

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...

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...

Microsoft is proud to be one of the premier sponsors at the Gartner Business Intelligence & Analytics Summit 2013 , March 18-20 in Grapevine, TX. If you are planning on attending we would like to invite you to visit our booth and meet with Microsoft...

Mark your calendars for March 26 th , and join us from 9:30 – 10:30 am PDT, as Microsoft and The Economist join together to present an exclusive webcast discussing the impact of big data on the future of global business. In “ From Data to Insights ”,...

UPDATE (3/12/13): The “So You Think You Know Excel Challenge” is back and better than ever, with more time to play and more prizes go give away!  Last week, you may have experienced a slight disruption of the “So You Think You Know Excel” Challenge...

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...

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...

Have you ever bought a new car or computer, and a year later you’re still discovering cool new features you never knew were there (because you didn’t take time to read the manual)?  When this happens, you kick yourself a little and think, “Dang,...

Mark your calendars for January 30 th and play along on Twitter to win prizes during the 24 Hours of PASS! If you’re a business analytics professional, you won’t want to miss the upcoming 24 Hours of Pass Event , where you will access best practices,...

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...