Get the Most Out of Power BI
2017-05-03 08:30 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | 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.

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.

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.

Understanding Power BI Premium
2017-06-24 13:15 - 14:15 | SQL Saturday Chattanooga, 784 Vine Street, Chattanooga, TN, 37403, 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
2017-06-26 18:30 - 20:30 | South Terraces Building -Atlanta, South Terraces Building (Auditorium Room) 115 Perimeter Center Place Atlanta, GA 30346, Atlanta, GA, United States

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

How to Create a Tailored End User Experience with Power BI
2018-07-30 18:30 - 20:30 | 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

2-Day Applied Power BI Workshop – Atlanta (Sep 11-12)
2018-09-11 08:30 - 2018-09-12 17:00 | Microsoft Office Alpharetta, 8000 Avalon Boulevard, Suite 900, Alpharetta, GA, 30009, United States
Do you know that Power BI is a top 10 sought after skill? Are you looking for an agile self-service platform that doesn’t require reporting and query skills to get basic analytics done without reliance on IT? Or, perhaps you’ve heard or evaluating Power BI but not sure where to start or how to take the most out of it? If so, this workshop is for you. Prologika has helped many organizations of all sizes to adopt Power BI. Packed with features, Power BI supports a dizzying variety of features and integration scenarios and it offers plenty to all types of users interested in data analytics: information workers, data analysts, BI pros, and developers.
Reserve your seat today to attend this insightful 2-day workshop for only $999 when Teo Lachev (CEO of Prologika, Microsoft Data Platform MVP, and Power BI Red Carpet Partner) teaches you practical Power BI knowledge and data analytics skills that you can immediately apply to your job. See how Power BI can improve your usability and productivity even further.
Event Summary

Date: September 11 and 12
Time: 8:30 AM – 5 PM
Location: Microsoft Office in Alpharetta
Catering: lunch provided
Syllabus: available here
Price: $999 (use coupon POWERBI20180911 for an instant 5% discount if you sign up two or more attendees from your company)

Key Benefits

Understand how Power BI changed the way users (information workers, data analysts, BI pros, and developers) gain and share data insights.
Learn how to connect to popular cloud services to derive instant insights, create interactive reports and dashboards, and view them in the browser and on the go.
Discover how to integrate and shape data from virtually everywhere and then implement sophisticated self-service models and business calculations.
Learn how to share your BI artifacts and collaborate with other teammates.
Gain practical skills by creating a self-service model in the lab exercises.
Learn Power BI best practices, limitations (every tool has them) and workarounds.
Get your questions answered.
and much more…

You won’t want to miss this educational and engaging training event! Attend it and get a free paper copy of the book Applied Microsoft Power BI (3rd edition)! Please use the Tickets section at the bottom of this page to register today as seating is limited. Moreover, after course completion and by the end of the year, all course attendees will receive a free, one-hour, follow-up consultation with me on any Power BI related topic.
Audience

Information workers
Business analysts
BI professionals
In general, anyone interested in self-service data analytics with Power BI

Prerequisites
Students are encouraged to bring their own laptops for the exercises. Detail setup instructions and source files will be sent before the event.
Instructor
Teo Lachev is a consultant, author, and mentor specializing in 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 (3rd edition)” He has been leading the Atlanta Microsoft Business Intelligence and Power BI Group since he founded it in 2010. Microsoft has recognized Teo’s expertise and contributions to the technical community by awarding him the prestigious Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Data Platform award since 2004.
Cancellation Policy
You can cancel your registration within 15 (or more days) advance notice in writing before the class start date. If you request a refund, a $200 processing fee will be subtracted from the refund. No refunds will be given to registrants who cancel within 15 days of the class start date, or who don’t attend the class for whatever reason. You can always substitute other attendees for paid registrants at any time upon a written notice. If Prologika cancels the class for whatever reason, we’ll issue a full refund to all paid registrants. Besides the registration fee, Prologika will refund no other expenses, including travel expenses and hotel reservations.

10 Ways to Empower Your BI Strategy with Power BI
2018-09-20 16:30 - 19:00 | DAMA, Embassy Row 660, Suite 105,6600 Peachtree Dunwoody Rd, Atlanta, 30328, United States
Not sure what value Power BI can bring to your BI infrastructure? 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 data strategy, this event is for you. Discussion points include:

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

Get your Power BI questions answered and see demos along the way.

Bridge Analytics and Developer Worlds with Power BI and PowerApps
2018-09-22 08:00 - 17:00 | SQL Saturday Alpharetta, 2875 Old Milton Pkwy, Alpharetta, GA, 30009, United States
One of the Power BI most prominent strengths is that it’s a part of the much broader Microsoft Data Platform that spans various on-premises and cloud offerings for data storage, processing, and analysis. Join me to learn how to integrate Power BI with PowerApps and discover exciting new possibilities that redefine the meaning of a report. During this entirely hands-on, no-slides session I’ll walk you through the steps to implement a popular report requirement for writeback, that Power BI doesn’t natively support.

Master Data Management
2018-09-25 06:30 - 20:30 | Microsoft Office Alpharetta, 8000 Avalon Boulevard, Suite 900, Alpharetta, GA, 30009, United States

2-Day Applied DAX with Power BI Workshop – Atlanta (Oct 15-16)
2018-10-15 08:30 - 2018-10-16 17:00 | Microsoft Office Alpharetta, 8000 Avalon Boulevard, Suite 900, Alpharetta, GA, 30009, United States
Struggling with DAX? Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) is the expression language of Power BI, Power Pivot, and Analysis Services Tabular. It’s very powerful but it’s usually perceived as complex and requiring a steep learning curve. Taught by an established expert, this two-day workshop is designed to help you become proficient with DAX. Think of this workshop as advanced Power BI training.
Reserve your seat today to attend this insightful 2-day workshop for only $999, when Teo Lachev (CEO of Prologika and Microsoft Data Platform MVP) teaches you the necessary DAX skills that you can immediately apply to your job.
Event Summary

Date: October 15 and 16
Time: 8:30 AM – 5 PM
Location: Microsoft Office in Alpharetta
Catering: lunch provided
Syllabus: available here
Price: $999 (use coupon SQL201810 for an instant 5% discount if you sign up two or more attendees from your company)

Key Benefits

Understand best practices for model design
Create advanced calculated columns
Master measures and evaluation contexts
Apply time intelligence
Work with advanced relationships and data security
Learn how to troubleshoot performance issues
Brainstorm your DAX puzzles
and much more…

You won’t want to miss this educational and engaging training event! Moreover, after course completion and by the end of the year, all course attendees will receive a free, one-hour, follow-up consultation with me on any Microsoft BI related topic. Please use the Tickets section at the bottom of this page to register today as seating is limited.
Audience

Data analysts working with Power BI or Power Pivot
BI Pros working with Power BI or Analysis Services Tabular
In general, anyone interested in learning DAX

Prerequisites
Students are encouraged to bring their own laptops for the exercises. Detail setup instructions and source files will be sent before the event.
Instructor
Teo Lachev is a consultant, author, and mentor specializing in 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 (3rd edition)” He has been leading the Atlanta Microsoft Business Intelligence and Power BI Group since he founded it in 2010. Microsoft has recognized Teo’s expertise and contributions to the technical community by awarding him the prestigious Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Data Platform award since 2004.
Cancellation Policy
You can cancel your registration within 15 (or more days) advance notice in writing before the class start date. If you request a refund, a $200 processing fee will be subtracted from the refund. No refunds will be given to registrants who cancel within 15 days of the class start date, or who don’t attend the class for whatever reason. You can always substitute other attendees for paid registrants at any time upon a written notice. If Prologika cancels the class for whatever reason, we’ll issue a full refund to all paid registrants. Besides the registration fee, Prologika will not refund any other expenses, such as travel expenses and hotel reservations.

Predictive Analytics with Power BI
2019-01-07 18:30 - 20:30 | Microsoft Office Alpharetta, 8000 Avalon Boulevard, Suite 900, Alpharetta, GA, 30009, United States
Predictive Analytics with Power BI
Predictive analytics, also known as data mining, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI), is an increasingly popular requirement. Fortunately, you don’t have to be a data scientist to benefit from machine learning in Power BI. This session is organized in two parts:
· Part 1 – We will revisit the existing machine learning features in Power BI, including Quick Insights, Explain Increase/Decrease, linear forecasting, integration with R and Python.
· Part 2 – We will look at exciting new features that are coming up in near future, such as integration with Azure ML and Cognitive Services, and automated machine learning.

Azure Data Lake for First Time Swimmers
2019-02-04 18:30 - 20:30 | Microsoft Office Alpharetta, 8000 Avalon Boulevard, Suite 900, Alpharetta, GA, 30009, United States
Data Lake may be the hot new way to store data for reporting, but it can be scary if you’ve never dealt with one. If you have no idea what a data lake is, have no fear! You will get an intro to the concept of data lake and what scenarios you should be considering it as your platform. From there you’ll get to see how Azure Data Lake Analytics and U-SQL allow developers and data professionals to create compelling analytics with data that previously was difficult to work with.

Using the Power Platform to Enhance Spatial Granularity
2019-05-06 18:30 - 20:30 | Microsoft Office Alpharetta, 8000 Avalon Boulevard, Suite 900, Alpharetta, GA, 30009, United States
Join this session to see how you can use the Power Platform to solve a real world customer problem. With a growing mobile workforce, many organizations are trying to figure out how to properly arm them with the correct tools. In this session we will explain and demonstrate how you can leverage the Power BI Mobile app and Microsoft Flow to build a solution that enables them to quickly identify locations near and far. We will demonstrate how the solution was built step-by-step, detailing how and why certain technologies and solutions were selected or not.

What's New for BI in SQL Server 2019
2019-05-18 13:00 - 14:00 | SQL Saturday Alpharetta, 2875 Old Milton Pkwy, Alpharetta, GA, 30009, United States
SQL Server 2019 delivers important data analytics features and enhancements. Join this session to discover what BI features are coming up in Database Engine, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS (Power BI Report Server), and MDS, and to see some of these preview features in action.

Bridge Analytics and Developer Worlds with Power Platform
2019-06-03 18:30 - 20:30 | Microsoft Office Alpharetta, 8000 Avalon Boulevard, Suite 900, Alpharetta, GA, 30009, United States
One of the Power BI most prominent strengths is that it’s a part of the much broader Microsoft Power Platform and Data Platform that spans various on-premises and cloud offerings for data storage, processing, and analysis. Join this session to learn how to integrate Power BI with PowerApps and discover exciting new possibilities that redefine the meaning of a report and let you do more with less. During this entirely hands-on, almost no-slides session I’ll walk you through the steps to implement a popular report requirement for writeback, that Power BI doesn’t natively support.
Bridge Analytics and Developer Worlds with Power BI and Power Platform (Teo Lachev)

10 Ways to Empower Your BI Strategy with Power BI
2019-06-08 06:30 - 20:30 | Microsoft Office Alpharetta, 8000 Avalon Boulevard, Suite 900, Alpharetta, GA, 30009, United States
Not sure what value Power BI can bring to your BI strategy? Join me to discuss 10 ways Power BI can help augment your existing or envisioned Power BI strategy. If you’re interested in Power BI but you’re not sure how it fits within your organizational data strategy, this event is for you. Discussion points include:

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

Get your Power BI questions answered and see demos along the way.
10 Ways to Empower Your BI Strategy with Power BI

SQL Atlanta BI Atlanta BI Edition
2019-10-19 12:30 - 13:30 | Microsoft Office Alpharetta, 8000 Avalon Boulevard, Suite 900, Alpharetta, GA, 30009, United States
SQL Saturday Atlanta (BI Edition) will be held on October 19th. I’ll present a “Power BI Pro, or Premium: that is the question” strategy-oriented session at 12:30.
“One question that always pops us during my Power BI assessments for companies planning to adopt Power BI is which SKU to buy. The choice might seem obvious to your organization, but there is much more below the surface. Join this session and learn important considerations that might influence your decision, including:

Licensing cost
Hosting organizational semantic layers
External reporting
Features
On-premises reporting”
