There is a lot of talk nowadays about Internet of Things (IoT). According to Gartner, there will be nearly 26 billion IoT devices by 2020. Naturally, the data generated by these devices needs to processed and analyzed, very often in real time. Indeed, an increasing number of customers need real-time (operational) analytics performed over a stream of events, such as data coming from sensors, barcode…
Read articleJoin us on Monday, October 27th for our next meeting of Atlanta MS BI Group to learn about predictive analytics and how to actually do it. Presentation: Mine Craft Level: Intermediate Date: Monday, October 27th, 2014 Time 6:30 – 8:30 PM ET Place: South Terraces Building (Auditorium Room) 115 Perimeter Center Place Atlanta, GA 30346 Overview: Why you should be mining your data and…
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A Major League Baseball team engaged us to implement the foundation of their data analytics platform. They partner with TicketMaster for ticketing and sales. Interestingly, besides the TicketMaster cloud hosting that everyone is familiar with, Ticketmaster also offers a client application called Archtics to allow customers to sell tickets on premise. The client application uses a Sybase database (as you probably know, Sybase was acquired…
Read articleWe have two contract positions in Alpharetta, GA. Contact us at info@prologika.com if you are interested. BA ANALYST (4-MONTH CONTRACT) Reviews, analyzes, and evaluates business systems and user needs. Documents requirements, defines scope and objectives, and formulates systems to parallel overall business strategies. May require a bachelor's degree in a related area and 4-6 years of experience in the field or in a related area.…
Read articleBI solutions typically include a semantic layer. In Microsoft BI, the role of a semantic layer is fulfilled by Multidimensional cubes or Tabular models, whose virtues I extolled in this newsletter. If you invested in an SSAS model already, congratulations! You've done the lion's share. But as you know, the next step is to train your business users and get them all excited about BI.…
Read articleI wonder how many people believe that Tabular DistinctCount outperforms Multidimensional judging by Excel reports alone. In this case, an insurance company reported a performance degradation with Excel reports connected to a multidimensional cube. One report was taking over three minutes to run and it was requesting multiple fields on rows (insured, insured state, insured city, policy number, policy year, underwriter, and a few more)…
Read articleMicrosoft awarded me again with the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for SQL Server. This is an annual award given to selected individuals worldwide in recognition for their expertise and contribution to the community. This makes it 11 consecutive years for me as SQL MVP!
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