Prologika

How to Create a Tailored End User Experience with Power BI
2018-07-30 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Microsoft Office Alpharetta, 8000 Avalon Boulevard, Suite 900, Alpharetta, GA, 30009, United States
Power BI can deliver value in a variety of ways. With its ease of use, high levels of adoption, and growing market share, Power BI is being integrated into Analytics Solutions all over the world. In this session, attendees will see the power in leveraging Workspaces and Apps within Power BI to create a packaged, custom solution tailored to meet the needs of the consumer. With the end user experience in mind, this session will discuss the development process, design considerations, and the Power BI Service deployment of a collection of customized dashboards in a single App.
Discussion Points Include:
• Power BI Desktop
• Power BI Service
• Workspaces
• Apps
• Visualizations
• Interactions
• Formatting
• Mobile View
• Row level security
• Publishing
• Consuming

Data Quality
2018-06-25 18:30 - 20:30 | South Terraces Building -Atlanta, South Terraces Building (Auditorium Room) 115 Perimeter Center Place Atlanta, GA 30346, Atlanta, GA, United States

10 Ways to Empower Your BI Strategy with Power BI
2018-05-19 14:15 - 15:15 | SQL Saturday Alpharetta, 2875 Old Milton Pkwy, Alpharetta, GA, 30009, United States
Not sure what value Power BI brings to your BI projects? Join me to discuss 10 ways Power BI can help augment your existing or envisioned Power BI strategy. If you’re interested in the Power BI but you’re not sure how it fits within your organizational BI strategy, this event is for you. Discussion points include:

Organizational BI
Self-service BI
Cloud vs. on-premises deployments
Predictive analytics
External reporting
Power BI-centric integrated solutions

Master Data Management with SQL Server 2016 MDS
2018-05-19 08:00 | SQL Saturday Alpharetta, 2875 Old Milton Pkwy, Alpharetta, GA, 30009, United States
Want to know the position Master Data Management and MDS play in an organization’s overall data strategy? We’ll review the key concepts and the different roles and responsibilities to help you get your organization moving forward with MDM. We’ll then take a look at the features of SQL Server 2016 MDS that make it an excellent tool for MDM. This demo-packed presentation will cover architecture and installation, different ways of processing data, hierarchies, security and many other features that will get you up and running with MDS.
Presenter: Neal Waterstreet

Power BI Dashboard in a Day (DIAD)
2018-04-12 09:00 - 17:00 | Microsoft Office Alpharetta, 8000 Avalon Boulevard, Suite 900, Alpharetta, GA, 30009, United States
Power BI is a business analytics service that gives you a single view of your business data, with the ability to monitor the health of your business using live dashboards, create rich interactive reports and access your data on the go, from your mobile devices.
Prologika with a partnership with Microsoft are pleased to offer a 1-day workshop covering the capabilities of Power BI. The goal of this informational session is to help you understand how to analyze your data in a rich and compelling way. Whether you are evaluating its ability to meet organizational requirements around data visualization and analysis or are looking to learn how Power BI can help you be more efficient and make a greater impact on the work you do every day, this is the training for you.
At the end of the day, attendees will better understand how to:

Connect to, import, and transform data from a variety of sources
Define business rules and KPIs
Explore data with powerful visualization tools
Build stunning reports
Share their dashboards with their team and/or the world

We also encourage you to bring your own data in a CSV or Excel format, to the workshop. The last 2 hours are dedicated to enabling you to build reports and dashboards on your own data with the support of your instructor.

Introduction to Azure Analysis Services
2018-03-26 18:30 - 20:30 | South Terraces Building -Atlanta, South Terraces Building (Auditorium Room) 115 Perimeter Center Place Atlanta, GA 30346, Atlanta, GA, United States
Azure Analysis Services (AAS) is an exciting tool within the Azure Data Services tool set. In this session, we’ll learn about the basics of AAS including how to create the service in the Azure portal, options for developing solutions and deploying them, processing data, scaling up and out, security, pricing, and where AAS fits in an overall modern data architecture. At the end of this session, you’ll have a basic understanding of how to get started with the tool and know how it could fit in your organization

Integrating Power BI with Dynamics and Other Solutions
2018-02-26 18:30 - 20:30 | South Terraces Building -Atlanta, South Terraces Building (Auditorium Room) 115 Perimeter Center Place Atlanta, GA 30346, Atlanta, GA, United States
Microsoft has differentiated itself for many years as the company that not only sells software, but software that works well together. For example, many companies sold suites of office productivity software, but none sold software that worked as well together as Microsoft Office. We continue that legacy today with Power BI, the leading BI software in the industry, and the integration story is improving, working well with Dynamics as well as leading 3rd party software packages, such as Salesforce!

H*ckin Sweet Reports with Power BI
2018-01-29 18:30 - 20:30 | South Terraces Building -Atlanta, South Terraces Building (Auditorium Room) 115 Perimeter Center Place Atlanta, GA 30346, Atlanta, GA, United States
Presentation:
H*ckin Sweet Reports with Power BI

Level: Intermediate

Date:
January 29, 2018

Time
6:30 – 8:30 PM ET

Place:
South Terraces Building (Auditorium Room)
115 Perimeter Center Place
Atlanta, GA 30346

Overview:
Power BI is constantly evolving; this session is an overview of the current elements of Power BI and ways to implement them, based on experience in the field using it. Topics include the Power BI Service, Power BI Desktop, Power BI Embedded, Pricing models and some details of Power BI Premium. Sample data set used in this presentation is from @Dog_Rates on Twitter.

Speaker:
Julie Smith has spent close to 20 years moving data using varied tools such as MS Access, MySQL, and SQL Server versions 2000 and on. She is a Business Intelligence Consultant at Innovative Architects, where she has been implementing Power BI v2 and Azure solutions for the last couple of years.

Sponsor:
Since 2005, Innovative Architects has been serving industries to help solve business and technology challenges. We provide business consulting, development and implementation services for Microsoft platforms which include BizTalk, SharePoint, .NET, Business Intelligence, Mobile Apps and much more.

Prototypes with Pizza
“Power BI Writeback and Desktop Q&A” by Teo Lachev

Microsoft BI 2017 Review
2017-12-04 06:30 - 20:30 | South Terraces Building -Atlanta, South Terraces Building (Auditorium Room) 115 Perimeter Center Place Atlanta, GA 30346, Atlanta, GA, United States
In the spirit of the season, join us to reflect on the state of Microsoft BI Platform at the end of year 2017. It’s been a fantastic year for both on-premises and cloud BI! I’ll revisit the most important changes in Power BI, SQL Server, and Azure. Please feel free to share your BI architectural and technical challenges so we can discuss how the latest technologies can solve them.

Office365 and Excel: Power BI’s Secret Advantage
2017-10-30 18:30 - 20:30 | South Terraces Building -Atlanta, South Terraces Building (Auditorium Room) 115 Perimeter Center Place Atlanta, GA 30346, Atlanta, GA, United States

Did Qlik run out of BI Power?
2017-09-25 18:30 - 20:30 | South Terraces Building -Atlanta, South Terraces Building (Auditorium Room) 115 Perimeter Center Place Atlanta, GA 30346, Atlanta, GA, United States
Presentation:

Did Qlik run out of BI Power?

Level: Intermediate

Date:
September 25, 2017

Time
6:30 – 8:30 PM ET

Place:
South Terraces Building (Auditorium Room)
115 Perimeter Center Place
Atlanta, GA 30346

Overview:
Haters are gonna hate. Lovers are gonna love. What about you? Come decide by yourself whether you are a Qlik or a PBI guy/gal. This presentation is intended for anyone who wants to see these two BI tools in action. Carlos and Daniel will show the differences and similarities between QlikView and Power BI. They will perform side-by-side the following:
Â· Extract and transform data
Â· Create a data model (so to allow cross filtering)
Â· Compare features side by side, including hiding/displaying visuals, creating linked objects, role-playing dimensions, what-if scenarios
Â· Create a nice dashboard (which tool can actually do it?)

Speaker:
Carlos Rodrigues has more than 18 years’ experience as an IT professional and has successfully proven that he is especially adept at translating complex business needs into flawlessly Business Intelligence solutions. In his current role, Director- IT with Brightstar Device Protection, he holds the responsibility of defining the strategic roadmap and overseeing the implementation of the company’s Business Intelligence. He is a recent Georgia Tech MBA graduate (go Jackets 🐝). He enjoys traveling to different places around the world, appreciating the local culture, savoring local culinary styles and mainly, taking thousands of photos using his Nikon gear.
Daniel Granadillo is a Business Intelligence Architect / Developer with more than 10 years of experience around Data Warehouse and Analytics projects. Advocate of the Microsoft BI stack and discovered love at first sight with SSIS. You can find me enjoying the outdoors when not embraced with SQL Server

Sponsor:
Accelebrate is an IT training firm headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, USA that provides on-site and online training on a wide variety of technologies for clients in North America, Europe, and worldwide. Accelebrate is a Prime Sponsor of the Atlanta Microsoft BI and Power BI Group.

Machine Learning Services with SQL Server 2017
2017-07-31 18:30 - 20:30 | South Terraces Building -Atlanta, South Terraces Building (Auditorium Room) 115 Perimeter Center Place Atlanta, GA 30346, Atlanta, GA, United States
SQL Server 2017 introduces Machine Learning Services with two independent technologies: R and Python. The purpose of this presentation is 1) to describe major features of this technology for technology managers; 2) to outline use cases for architects; and 3) to provide demos for developers and data scientists.

What's New for BI in SQL Server 2017
2017-07-15 | SQL Saturday Gwinnett, 5150 Sugarloaf Parkway Bldg 900 Bldg, Atlanta, GA, 30043, United States
Just when you are done upgrading to version 2016, SQL Server 2017 is here! SQL Server 2017 delivers important data analytics features and enhancements. Join this session to discover what's new for BI in SSRS, SSAS, and SSIS, and to see these features in action.

Understanding Power BI Premium
2017-06-26 18:30 - 20:30 | South Terraces Building -Atlanta, South Terraces Building (Auditorium Room) 115 Perimeter Center Place Atlanta, GA 30346, Atlanta, GA, United States
Microsoft Power BI has enjoyed a lot of attention and success since it became generally available in July 2015. But its licensing model and cloud-hosted limitations barred wide adoption, especially with larger organizations. The recently introduced Power BI Premium will change all of this. Join this session to learn how Power BI Premium will allow your organization to achieve:
• Flexibility to license by capacity
• Greater scale and performance
• Extending on-premises reporting with Power BI Report Server
• Embedded analytics

Understanding Power BI Premium
2017-06-24 13:15 - 14:15 | SQL Saturday Chattanooga, 784 Vine Street, Chattanooga, TN, 37403, United States

Understanding Power BI Premium
2017-06-08 18:00 - 20:00 | Carolina Power BI User Group, 1001 Keys Drive, Greenville, GA, 29615, United States
Microsoft Power BI has enjoyed a lot of attention and success since it became generally available in July 2015. But its licensing model and cloud-hosted limitations barred wide adoption, especially with larger organizations. The recently introduced Power BI Premium will change all of this. Join this session to learn how Power BI Premium will allow your organization to achieve:
• Flexibility to license by capacity
• Greater scale and performance
• Extending on-premises reporting with Power BI Report Server
• Embedded analytics
Speaker’s bio:
Teo Lachev is a consultant, author, and mentor, with a focus on Data Analytics. Through his Atlanta-based company Prologika, a Microsoft Gold Partner in Data Analytics, he helps organizations make sense of their most valuable asset: their data. His strategy formulation, trusted advisory and mentoring, design and implementation services empower clients to apply effectively data analytics to understand, improve, and transform their business processes (learn more at https://prologika.com/case-studies/). Teo has authored and co-authored several bestselling books on organizational and self-service data analytics, and he has been leading the Atlanta Microsoft BI and Power BI group since he founded it in 2010. Teo has been a Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP) Data Platform since 2010.

Cortana Intelligence Suite End-to-End
2017-05-22 18:30 - 20:30 | South Terraces Building -Atlanta, South Terraces Building (Auditorium Room) 115 Perimeter Center Place Atlanta, GA 30346, Atlanta, GA, United States
The Cortana Intelligence Suite provides tools to cover all types of business intelligence needs, from compelling dashboards to cutting edge predictive analytics! In this session we will look at a predictive analytics solution that was developed in a single day. It leverages Azure Machine Learning, Azure Data Factory, HDInsight, Spark, Power BI, and Intelligent Apps to deliver a solution that predicts the likelihood of flight delays for a customer.

Get the Most Out of Power BI
2017-05-03 08:30 - 12:00 | Microsoft Office Alpharetta, 8000 Avalon Boulevard, Suite 900, Alpharetta, GA, 30009, United States
Power BI is about empowering all types of users to get insights from data. It consists of the Power BI Service (powerbi.com), Power BI Desktop, Power BI Mobile, and Power BI Embedded, and it comes in two pricing options: Power BI Free and Power BI Pro. Power BI enjoys a tremendous momentum and industry observers has given it high scores. Packed with a dizzying variety of features, Power BI has something for everyone, from a business user to a BI pro.
Join Prologika and Microsoft for a 3-hour free seminar on Wednesday, May 3th, 8:30 AM -12 PM ET, at the Microsoft Office in Alpharetta, when Teo Lachev (CEO of Prologika) and Patrick LeBlanc (Data Platform Solutions Architect at Microsoft) share practical knowledge and experience to help you get the most out of Power BI. If you’re planning Power BI rollout in your organization, this event is for you.

Key Takeaways

Learn tips and tricks to stay within Power BI Free and reduce cost, including:

Content service packs
Avoid gateways for refreshing imported data
Deploy Power BI reports on-premises
Share reports with external users

Power BI customer stories from the frontline

Learn how other customers use Power BI
Learn top customer issues when adopting Power BI that we have faced
Explore different problems and how we have fixed them

Ask questions and get them answered.

You won’t want to miss this educational and engaging event! Please register today as seating is limited by using the Registration form at the bottom of this page.
Agenda
8:30-9:00 – Networking and introductions
9:00-10:15– 10 Tips to Get the Most Out of Power BI
10:15-10:30– Break
10:30-11:45– Power BI customer stories from the frontline
11:45-12:00 – Announcements and Q&A
Presenters
Teo Lachev is a consultant, author, and mentor with a focus on Data Analytics. Teo helps organizations make sense of their most valuable asset: their data. His strategy formulation, trusted advisory and mentoring, design and implementation services empower his clients to apply effectively data analytics in order to understand, improve, and transform their business. Teo has authored and coauthored several books and his latest one is “Applied Microsoft Power BI (2nd Edition)” Prologika is a Microsoft Gold Partner in Data Analytics, demonstrating a “best-in-class” ability and commitment to meet Microsoft customers’ evolving needs and distinguishing itself within the top one percent of Microsoft’s partner ecosystem. Learn more at https://prologika.com.

Patrick LeBlanc is a currently a Data Platform Solutions Architect at Microsoft and a contributing partner to “Guy in a Cube“. Along with his 15+ years’ experience in IT he holds a Masters of Science degree from Louisiana State University. He is the author and co-author of five SQL Server books. Prior to joining Microsoft he was awarded Microsoft MVP award for his contributions to the community. Patrick is a regular speaker at many SQL Server Conferences and Community events.

Using Power BI to Track Software Development
2017-04-24 18:30 - 20:30 | South Terraces Building -Atlanta, South Terraces Building (Auditorium Room) 115 Perimeter Center Place Atlanta, GA 30346, Atlanta, GA, United States
Learn how you can use Power BI to monitor the progress with rich, interactive dashboards. Data from Visual Studio Team Services ODATA feeds and APIs as well as pulling data from DocumentDB, teams can drill into their development performance and see where they may be having development performance. Data is accessed via embedded Power BI reports running on dedicated hardware throughout development team spaces as well as accessible via the web using SSO!

7 Ways to Integrate Excel with Power BI
2017-04-19 18:30 - 20:00 | Microsoft Office Alpharetta, 8000 Avalon Boulevard, Suite 900, Alpharetta, GA, 30009, United States
Power BI is gaining a momentum but Excel still rules the corporate world. Fortunately, Power BI and Excel are not exclusive choices. Join me to learn how you can preserve your Excel investment in Power BI. I’ll start by explaining the value Power BI brings to different types of users in your organization. Then, I’ll discuss and demo seven options for integrating Excel with Power BI:

Import Excel files in Power BI Service
Build self-service data models from Excel data
Deploy Excel models to Power BI
Convert Excel models to Power BI
Connect to Excel reports
Analyze Power BI datasets in Excel
Add Excel reports to Power BI dashboards

Power BI v. Tableau
2017-03-27 18:30 - 20:30 | South Terraces Building -Atlanta, South Terraces Building (Auditorium Room) 115 Perimeter Center Place Atlanta, GA 30346, Atlanta, GA, United States

Embed Interactive Reports in Your Apps
2017-03-18 10:00 - 12:00 | Birmingham Chapter of PASS, 800 Lakeshore Drive, Birmingham, AL, 35229, United States
You have the app. You have the data. What if your app could put the power of analytics everywhere decisions are made and allow your customers to gain insights? Modern apps with data visualizations built-in have the power to inform decisions in context—for any user and on any device. Join us to discover how you can embed data analytics in any app and on one device powered by Azure and Power BI Embedded. Learn how to: – Create compelling interactive reports – Embed easily for faster time to value – Deploy quickly and manage with ease

Bot Framework and Cognitive Services
2017-02-27 18:30 - 20:30 | South Terraces Building -Atlanta, South Terraces Building (Auditorium Room) 115 Perimeter Center Place Atlanta, GA 30346, Atlanta, GA, United States
Join this session for an overview of Bot Framework and Cognitive Services. During this session we will build and deploy a bot. We will also browse the different Cognitive Services APIs: Face, Vision, Speech, Text.

Master Data Management with SQL Server 2016 MDS
2017-01-30 18:30 - 20:30 | South Terraces Building -Atlanta, South Terraces Building (Auditorium Room) 115 Perimeter Center Place Atlanta, GA 30346, Atlanta, GA, United States
Organizations that invest in master data management and improving the quality of their informational assets will be best positioned to reap the huge data dividend! Join our presentation for the Atlanta MS BI Group to learn how you can manage your master data and reference data with SQL Server Master Data Services (MDS). Learn about the new MDS features in SQL Server 2016.

Embed Interactive Reports in Your Apps
2016-12-10 09:00 - 10:15 | Microsoft Office Alpharetta, 8000 Avalon Boulevard, Suite 900, Alpharetta, GA, 30009, United States
You have the app. You have the data. What if your app could put the power of analytics everywhere decisions are made and allow your customers to gain insights? Modern apps with data visualizations built-in have the power to inform decisions in context—for any user and on any device. Join me to discover how you can embed data analytics in any app and on one device powered by Azure and Power BI Embedded. Learn how to:
– Create compelling interactive reports
– Embed easily for faster time to value
– Deploy quickly and manage with ease

Power BI Dashboard in a Day by Teo Lachev
2016-12-09 09:00 - 17:00 | Microsoft Office Alpharetta, 8000 Avalon Boulevard, Suite 900, Alpharetta, GA, 30009, United States
SQL Saturday Atlanta BI Edition is proud to announce this full day training, register at https://powerbidiad.eventbrite.com today!
Power BI Dashboard in a Day (DIAD) is designed to accelerate your Power BI experience with a comprehensive training program in a single day. All you have to do is bring your Windows-based laptop and we’ll supply the rest – even lunch! With DIAD you get practical hands-on training prepared by the Microsoft Power BI team. During this precon we’ll build a Power BI dashboard together. Along the way, you’ll learn:
• How to connect to, import & transform data from a variety of sources
• Build real data models, as well as author and publish Business Intelligence reports
• Customize and share your “creations” for collaboration with other groups securely inside your organization including mobile device sharing
• Get your Power BI questions answered
Register your seat now to and witness the value Power BI can deliver to you and your organization!

Microsoft BI 2016 Review
2016-12-05 18:30 - 20:30 | South Terraces Building -Atlanta, South Terraces Building (Auditorium Room) 115 Perimeter Center Place Atlanta, GA 30346, Atlanta, GA, United States
In the spirit of the season, join us to reflect on the state of Microsoft BI Platform at the end of year 2016 presented by Teo Lachev. It’s been a fantastic year for BI! I’ll revisit the most important changes. I’ll discuss self-service and organizational BI, cloud and box products, emerging technologies, and how they all complement each other in the context of Microsoft BI.

Shiny and New: SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services
2016-11-01 18:30 - 20:30 | South Terraces Building -Atlanta, South Terraces Building (Auditorium Room) 115 Perimeter Center Place Atlanta, GA 30346, Atlanta, GA, United States
SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services was a major upgrade to the reporting platform. The Report Manager was renamed to the Report Portal, and received a complete overhaul. It is very modern and sleek, with the ability to now embed KPIs! In addition, the Report Builder tool received a face lift, updating its interface to the more modern Office look. Reports received two new chart types, the Tree Map and Sunburst. The biggest enhancement is the brand new Mobile Report Publisher! This powerful tool lets you quickly and easily create reports for a variety of platforms such as Apple’s iOS and Android. But the great news is that it’s not just for mobile platforms, it works great in standard web browsers as well, making it an ideal tool for creating dashboards for all your platforms.
In this session you’ll see all of these new features, allowing you to come up to speed quickly and take advantage of these great features in your SSRS 2016 reports.

Embed Interactive Reports in Your Apps
2016-10-15 13:00 - 14:00 | Kennesaw State University, 1100 S Marietta Pkwy, Marietta, GA, 30060, United States
You have the app. You have the data. What if your app could put the power of analytics everywhere decisions are made and allow your customers to gain insights? Modern apps with data visualizations built-in have the power to inform decisions in context—for any user and on any device. Join me on October 15th, 1-2 PM, to discover how you can embed data analytics in any app and on one device powered by Azure and Power BI Embedded. Learn how to:

Create compelling interactive reports
Embed easily for faster time to value
Deploy quickly and manage with ease

Power BI at one year - a look back and a look forward
2016-09-26 18:30 - 20:30 | South Terraces Building -Atlanta, South Terraces Building (Auditorium Room) 115 Perimeter Center Place Atlanta, GA 30346, Atlanta, GA, United States
This is a must attend session for everyone using or planning to use Power BI. With weekly and monthly releases, there are a lot of fantastic new features to explore in Power BI. In this session we will cover an overview of what has been released in Power BI across PowerBI.com, Power BI Desktop, mobile apps and APIs. You’ll also discover what’s new and exciting in Power BI.
