I hope you watched the SQL PASS 2012 Day 1 Keynote live. There were important announcements and I was sure happy to see BI being heavily represented. For me, the most important ones were: The availability of SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 For some reason, this announcement went without being applauded from the audience although in my opinion it was the most important news…
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As you've probably heard the news, Microsoft rebranded their Big Data offerings as HDInsight that currently encompasses two key services: Windows Azure HDInsight Service (formerly known as Hadoop-based Services on Windows Azure) – This is a cloud-based Hadoop distribution hosted on Windows Azure. Microsoft HDInsight Server for Windows – A Windows-based Hadoop distribution that offers two main benefits for Big Data customers: An officially supported…
Read articleAtlanta BI Group is meeting tonight. The Topic is Hadoop and Big Data by Ketan Dave and our sponsor is Enterprise Software Solutions. With wide acceptance of open source technologies , Hadoop/Map Reduce has become a viable option when it comes implementing the 100 of Terabytes to Petabytes of Data solutions. Scalability, Reliability , Versatility and Cost benefits of Hadoop based system is replacing traditional…
Read articleAs I mentioned before, Microsoft released SharePoint 2013 and Office 2013 and the bits are now available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads. I am sure you are eager to try the new BI features. One thing that you need to be aware of though is that you need SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 in order to integrate the BI features (PowerPivot for SharePoint and SSRS)…
Read articleMicrosoft has started shipping the cool Surface RT tablets this week with Surface Pro to follow in January. Naturally, a BI person would attempt BI in Excel only to find that BI and Power View (no Silverlight support) are not there as Kasper explains. It's important to know that the RT version of Surface is limited to native Windows 8 applications only, it comes preinstalled…
Read articleI installed Windows 8 shortly it was released and I've been running it for almost two months now. I'm still in a learning mode to teach old dog new tricks. I have a few gripes here and there, such as the need for two screens (start screen and desktop), the absence of the start button and its search, the quest for dumbing down the OS,…
Read articleI have to admit this came as a surprise to me as I expected them to go live next year. Microsoft just announced that Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 went live. Time for celebrating, learning, and adopting these great technologies! Check my coverage about what's new in Office and SharePoint 2013 BI.
Read articleI started a newsletter and I plan to update it on a quarterly basis. The topic of the first issue is Big Data. If you like the newsletter, you're welcome to subscribe and forward.
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I spoke with a customer today that has implemented Salesforce.com. For those who are not familiar with Salesforce, it's a popular cloud-based, customer relationship management (CRM) product. As it usually happens, just when you're done with the Salesforce implementation, you're immediately faced with the challenge of consolidated reporting. It won't be long before the Vice President of Sales asks you to integrate sales data residing…
Read articleJust got the news that my MVP (SQL Server) award got extended for another year! This is my eight renewal.
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