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Events May 8, 2014 2 min read

Microsoft adds forecasting capabilities to Power BI for O365

The PASS Business Analytics Conference — the event where big data meets business analytics – kicked off today in San Jose.

Thought Leadership May 5, 2014 6 min read

Azure SQL Database: Service Tiers & Performance Q&A

A few days ago, I published a post with some anticipated questions & answers to provide details on the new service tiers for Microsoft Azure SQL Database, announced on April 24.

Thought Leadership May 2, 2014 2 min read

Forrester Consulting study finds cost, business continuity benefits from cloud backup and disaster recovery

Maybe you have read about cloud database backup and disaster recovery (DR) but wanted to know more about the results achieved by real companies.

Thought Leadership April 30, 2014 5 min read

Change the Game with APS and PolyBase

Guest blog post by: James Rowland-Jones (JRJ), SQL Server MVP, PASS Board Director, SQLBits organiser and owner of The Big Bang Data Company (@BigBangDataCo).

Thought Leadership April 24, 2014 3 min read

SQL Server 2014 and the DBA: Building Bridges

Guest blog post by: SQL Server MVP Denise McInerney – Vice President of Marketing for PASS and a Data Engineer at Intuit – began her career as a SQL Server DBA in 1998 and now applies her deep understanding of data to enable analytic solutions to business problems.

Thought Leadership April 22, 2014 1 min read

Progressive Insurance data performance grows by factor of four, fueling business growth online experience

At the Accelerate your Insights event last week, Quentin Clark described how SQL Server 2014 was now part of a platform that had in-built in-memory technology across all data workloads.

Thought Leadership April 16, 2014 1 min read

SQL Server 2014 and HP Sets Two World Records for Data Warehousing Leading In Both Performance and Price/Performance

Yesterday we talked about how we are delivering real-time performance to customers in every part of the platform.

Thought Leadership April 15, 2014 4 min read

The data platform for a new era

Earlier today, Microsoft hosted a customer event in San Francisco where I joined CEO Satya Nadella and COO Kevin Turner to share our perspective on the role of data in business.

Thought Leadership March 26, 2014 5 min read

Power BI for Office 365: Making It Real

In my recent post, Simplifying Business Intelligence through Power BI for Office 365, I described how the Power BI cloud service has changed the way I personally work.

Thought Leadership March 12, 2014 6 min read

Innovation and the Data Platform Continuum

All of us who work in technology-related fields have experienced disruptions that seem to change everything, and figuring out how to manage through the transition can mean the survival or demise of an enterprise.

Thought Leadership March 11, 2014 2 min read

Leeds Teaching Hospitals Transform Healthcare Using Big Data Solution to Provide Faster Access to Information

Since the launch of the Windows Azure HDInsight Service we’ve seen many companies using Big Data solutions based on HDInsight to gain benefits from analyzing unstructured data within their organization – a good summary of some of these organizations was recently showcased by CIO Magazine.

Thought Leadership March 6, 2014 1 min read

AMD Improves Operational Agility with SQL Server 2014 Business Intelligence Solution

AMD, a leading designer and integrator of technology that powers millions of intelligent devices, needed better tools for monitoring manufacturing processes and other business operations.

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