The Microsoft BI team has seen consistent demand from our customers for industry-specific solutions that utilize the Microsoft Business Intelligence platform stack. These customers like the overall MS BI story – they see that it delivers familiar user...

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...

In support of the The MSBI Data MashUp contest , we are holding a tweet chat for PowerPivot! The tweet chat will be taking place Tuesday September 13 from 9:30 – 10:30 AM PST and we want you to be a part of the conversation! Chat with our product...

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...

What are BI Labs? We’re excited to unveil the latest BI labs project! If you’re not familiar with BI Labs, they are a series of experimental business intelligence projects made available from internal sources across Microsoft. Additional...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 a recent post , we demonstrated how Power View can produce compelling visualizations of Twitter conversations. Several readers asked about the possibility of tracking sentiment in Power View. The answer is unequivocally YES; you can, in fact, produce...

By Joe Mullich Since the economic downturn, executives have heightened their focus on customer loyalty, looking for new ways to retain and draw additional value from their existing customer base. The Mandarin Hotel Group, which operates 42 luxury...

During the SQL PASS Summit 2011 Day One Keynote (watch the recording at: http://www.sqlpass.org/summit/2011/Live/LiveStreaming/LiveStreamingWednesday.aspx ), we were excited to announce our support for Apache Hadoop. During his keynote, Ted Kummert, Corporate...

Last week at the Hadoop Summit we were able to connect with lots of fellow Big Data enthusiasts. Since many weren't able to attend the summit in person, Lara Rubbelke, Community Principal Program Manager for Microsoft, shared her experience with us. Read...

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...

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...

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...

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...

It is our pleasure to announce the finalists and the winner of the 2011 Microsoft Business Intelligence Partner of the Year Award. This award was announced yesterday, and will be featured at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference this July 11 – 14,...

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 ”,...

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...

The MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference , started by Daryl Morey 5 years ago is kicking off this Friday with a record attendance of 1,500.   This is not surprising; the conference has been extremely popular in the sports and non-sports world.  ...

Today we announced the availability of the HP Business Decision Appliance . This is the culmination of many months of engineering work between HP and Microsoft to develop a software/hardware solution to enable easy access to self-service business intelligence...

Here is a transcript of the PowerPivot tweet chat we held on September 13 th . You can also view it online at http://bit.ly/ngx8Az Hashtag archive - #MSBIPP Microsoft BI Hash Tag for PowerPivot Tweet Chat [ tags = PowerPivot, #MSBI, Microsoft...

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...