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Atlanta BI SIG September Meeting

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Atlanta BI fans, join our next Atlanta BI SIG meeting! Mark Tabladillo (Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, MCAD.NET, MCT) will show us how to do data mining with PowerPivot. And Dundas will demonstrate their latest BI offering – the Dundas dashboard. Here are the details:

Please RSVP to help us plan food as follows:

  1. Go to the Atlanta BI home page (atlantabi.sqlpass.org).
  2. Choose Yes and submit the RSVP survey found at the right top corner of the page.

 

Main Topic:         Data Mining with PowerPivot 2010
  Level: Intermediate
Date: Monday, September 27, 2010
Time: 6:30PM
Location Matrix Resources

115 Perimeter Center Place

Suite 250 (South Terraces Building)

Atlanta, GA 30346
Speaker:

 

 

 

 

 Mark Tabladillo (Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, MCAD.NET, MCT)
Mark Tabladillo provides consulting and training for data mining with Solid Quality Mentors. He has taught statistics at Georgia Tech and for the graduate business school of the University of Phoenix. Mark has years of deep experience with the SAS System, and has presented at many local, regional, and national technical conferences. Mark produces a data mining resource and blog at http://www.marktab.net. the current president of the Kansas City SQL Server Users Group.
Overview:

 

 Excel provides a compelling and ubiquitous interface for Microsoft Data Mining. With new features available through PowerPivot, business users can apply the technology through a well-designed infrastructure of Microsoft technologies. This presentation will welcome any newcomers to data mining, and provide interactive demos which highlight data mining through these technologies.

  
Location: Matrix Resources Dunwoody Office
Sponsor
Presentation:		 Dundas

Dundas will present their latest BI offering: Dundas Dashboard. Dundas Dashboard is a flexible, turnkey solution for the rapid development of business dashboards. Whether you are leveraging an existing BI infrastructure/application or starting a standalone project from scratch, Dundas offers the industry’s most cost-effective platform for creating/deploying sophisticated digital dashboards and empowering users quickly and easily.

Atlanta BI Group First Meeting Topic Announced

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I’ve just updated the Atlanta BI Group home page to announce the topic for our first meeting on August 23th. Given the great interest surrounding Self-service BI, I’ll present “Self-service BI with Microsoft PowerPivot”.

Hope you can make our first meeting!

Atlanta.MBI Website

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The website for the Atlanta Microsoft Business Intelligence SIG is up and running although it’s still work in progress.

http://atlantabi.sqlpass.org

1. Please register.

2. Please fill in the two polls on the first page for the first meeting attendance and topic of interest.

3. You can post suggestions for our first meeting on the Discussions page (Meetings forum) as a reply to my first post there.

4. Please use the General forum in the Discussions for any general questions.

5. Please spread the news and redirect Atlanta BI fans to http://atlantabi.sqlpass.org.

Venue for Atlanta.MBI Found

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The great search for a meeting place for the Atlanta BI SIG is over! I am happy to report that I found the perfect place. Matrix Resources graciously offered to host and sponsor our meetings in a training room at their premises at 115 Perimeter Center Place #250, Atlanta, GA, 30346. I visited their location and another location today and I think their place is great. The room is capable of accommodating 50 people and has a projector. The location is nice too since I was looking for place around this area to accommodate the traffic concerns of as many people as possible. I personally live in Norcross and it would have been nice to take advantage of the Data Profit’s meetup offer but it would have been too selfish J

I also booked the meeting days for the rest of the year. I suggest we meet up every last Monday of the month from 6:30 – 8:30 PM as follows:

8.23, 9.27, 10.25, 11.22 and 12.27

Our first meeting will on be August 23th at 6:30 PM.

My focus now is to put together the Atlanta BI website that will be hosted on sqlpass.org. I’ll let you know when it’s ready so you could register and stay on top of the latest announcements. Stay tuned!

Venue for Atlanta.MBI Wanted

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To follow up on my recent blog about forming an Atlanta-based Microsoft Business Intelligence Special Interest Group, I am planning to have our first meeting in August. The effort now is to find a venue where we can meet. If you have a confirmed location, please post its address to the discussion thread. I’ll compile a list and I update this blog and the discussion thread.