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Bridging the Chasm: BI Theory vs. Practice
A Dynamic Dialog session: According to research compiled by Gartner from discussions with many BI clients, a substantial disparity exists, in the implementation of BI, between theory (standard approaches, promises, claims and expectations) and practice (shortfalls, compromises and other realities). In this session, Business Intelligence Architect and Microsoft MVP Bill Pearson leads a dialog within which we gain an understanding of the general types of discrepancies between the “ideal” approach to BI and the compromised reality that a large number of organizations experience. We’ll then share and class experiences as a group, and discuss ways to avoid these discrepancies in future projects.
Presenter: William E. Pearson III
Bill created Island Technologies® Inc. in 1997, and has developed a large and diverse customer base since. Bill’s background as a CPA, Internal Auditor, Management Accountant and SQL Server MVP (BI) enable him to provide value to clients as a liaison between Accounting / Finance and Information Services. Bill has implemented enterprise business intelligence systems over the years for many Fortune 500 companies, and focuses his practice upon the integrated Microsoft business intelligence solution. Bill is a member of the Boulder BI Brain Trust.
Date/Time:
6-10-2013 6:00 P.M. – 8:30 P.M.
Location:
Microsoft NYC offices, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10104
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Scalable Analytics Without Intermediation (Can it exist? When?)
The cost of an insight is a function of the data volume, schema complexity and development cycles. The promise of the NoSQL movement was to reduce the barriers to the end users so that the analysis could occur in their hands across all the data. We will ask can a fast, robust and iterative analysis of Big Data exist? Can we generate and test insights? How much of BigData data discovery has been solved and how much more remains?
A veteran of analytics, Goodarzi has lead several teams in designing, building and delivering predictive analytics and business analytical products to a diverse set of industries. Prior to joining 1010data, Goodarzi was the Managing Director of Mortgage at Equifax, responsible for the creation of new data products and supporting analytics to the financial industry. Previously, he lead the development of various classes of predictive models aimed at the mortgage industry during his tenure at Loan Performance (Core Logic). Earlier on he had worked at BlackRock, the research center for NYNEX (present day Verizon) and Norkom Technologies. Goodarzi’s publications span the fields of data mining , data visualization, optimization , and artificial intelligence.
Date/Time:
5-13-2013 6:00 P.M. – 8:30 P.M.
Location:
Microsoft NYC offices, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10104
Business Intelligence in SharePoint 2013: Empowering users to change their world – April 8, 2013
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Business Intelligence in SharePoint 2013: Empowering users to change their world
Starting in May 2010, with SQL Server 2008 R2, Microsoft began talking more and more about “Personal BI”. The focus of this discussion was a paradigm shift moving business intelligence from being something a few BI professionals do with a data warehouse to a practice done by Information Workers every day in familiar tools like Microsoft Excel and SharePoint. Over the course of this session we will show you the improvements that Microsoft has made in the 2013 stack to take this new focus from being a “nice idea” to a truly powerful reality. We will explore the improvements made to Excel, PowerPivot & Power View, & Reporting Services. We will explain the underlying technology that makes the new features possible and walk through demos of some of the shinier toys. At the end of the session you will walk away with a better understanding of what is new in 2013 for business intelligence and an extreme desire to build reusable data model that will undoubtedly bring real value to your business.
Presenter: Jason Himmelstein
Jason Himmelstein, MCTS, MCITP, is the SharePoint Practice Director for Sentri, Inc. and has been working with Microsoft Server technologies since 1998 when he was supporting Motorola in Austin, TX. He went to work for the University of Texas for 5 years where he developed expertise in Active Directory and Exchange. He left UT to go on the road doing work for Dell in a partnership with Microsoft doing architecture, design and implementation of Active Directory and Exchange. He started working with SharePoint in 2007 as an Enterprise Architect for Raytheon Company. Today he leads a team of dynamic SharePoint Consultants for Sentri, a four-time Microsoft Partner of the Year.
Jason is the co-author of the upcoming O’Reilly book “Developing Business Intelligence Apps for SharePoint“.
Outside of this crazy working world he is a happily married father of 2 boys and a die-hard Texas Longhorns and San Antonio Spurs fan.
Date/Time:
4-8-2013 6:00 P.M. – 8:30 P.M.
Location:
Microsoft NYC offices, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10104
Differences between the SSAS Multidimensional (OLAP) model and the SSAS 2012 Tabular Model – March 11, 2013
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Differences between the SSAS Multidimensional (OLAP) model and the SSAS 2012 Tabular Model:
In SQL Server 2012, Microsoft introduced a new Tabular Model in SSAS for creating analytic databases. The question is – how does this model differ from the traditional MOLAP model, and is it better than MOLAP?
In this presentation, I’ll cover the new tabular model with some examples, where the model differs from traditional MOLAP, and I’ll also show instances where one model might be preferable over the other for specific applications.
Presenter: Kevin S. Goff
Kevin S. Goff (http://www.kevinsgoff.net) is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP, SQL Server/Business Intelligence Practice Manager for SetFocus LLC, author of 2 books, regular columnist for CoDe Magazine on .NET, SQL Server, and Business Intelligence topics, and a frequent speaker at community events in the Mid-Atlantic region.
Contact URL: http://www.KevinSGoff.net
Date/Time:
3-11-2013 6:00 P.M. – 8:30 P.M.
Location:
Microsoft NYC offices, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10104
NoSQL: concepts, demos and market analysis – January 14, 2013
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NoSQL: concepts, demos and market analysis
There’s a lot of brouhaha around NoSQL these days, and the subject of Big Data usually comes along for the ride. But to mainstream relational database administrators and developers, the NoSQL world is a bit of an enigma. What does NoSQL really mean, and where is it actually useful? Are people using it because they should, or because they want to? And how does all this tie into the Big Data world anyway?
In this presentation, MSBIgDataNYC moderator and ZDNet Big Data blogger Andrew Brust will attempt to bring clarity to this whole subject. Andrew will explain what NoSQL really means, describe the four major NoSQL database categories, demo various NoSQL databases including CouchDB and HBase, and will explain where NoSQL and Big Data intersect. Andrew will also bring you up to date on who the major vendors are in the NoSQL space and which ones have emerged as leaders.
Andrew won’t try to convert you to the NoSQL camp. Instead, he’ll explain what NoSQL’s about and help you decide if the technology has merit and utility in your own organization.
Presenter: Andrew Brust
Andrew Brust is Founder and CEO of Blue Badge Insights, an analysis, strategy and advisory firm serving Microsoft customers and partners, and ZDNet’s “Big on Data” blogger. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/big-data Brust is also a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP; an advisor to the New York Technology Council; and co-author of “Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2008″ (Microsoft Press, 2008). Brust is a frequent speaker at industry events and is a columnist for Visual Studio Magazine. He’s been a participant in the Microsoft ecosystem for over 15 years, has worked closely with both Microsoft’s Redmond-based corporate team and field organization for much of the last 10 and is a member of several Microsoft “insiders” groups that supply him with insight around important technologies out of Redmond.
Date/Time:
1-14-2013 6:00 P.M. – 8:30 P.M.
Location:
Microsoft NYC offices, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10104
Couchbase: a NoSQL database for Big Data – December 10, 2012
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Couchbase: a NoSQL database for Big Data
Hadoop is great for processing large quantities of data and resolving that information down into a smaller set of information that you can query. However, the processing time for that process can be huge. By integrating with Couchbase Server you can do live querying and reporting on information, while continuing to work with Hadoop for the large data set and heavy processing of the data set. Couchbase Server also uses a MapReduce querying system, which makes it easy for you to migrate and integrate your indexing and querying system to extract and manipulate the information effectively.
Presenter: John Zablocki
John Zablocki is a Developer Advocate at Couchbase. He is the organizer of Beantown ALT.NET, and is a former adjunct at Fairfield University. John holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Hartford. He has worked at startups throughout his career, and is interested in the intersection of .NET and open source. Online, John can be found at http://about.me/johnzablocki. Offline, he can be found too infrequently around Boston, with his dog Lady, daughter MaryKatherine, and his Martin acoustic.
Date/Time:
12-10-2012 6:00 P.M. – 8:30 P.M.
Location:
Microsoft NYC offices, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10104
SQL Server 2012 Columnstore index – What it means for Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Applications -November 12, 2012
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SQL Server 2012 Columnstore index – What it means for Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Applications
It might seem far-fetched that a company would upgrade to SQL Server 2012 “just” for a database index. But after you see the performance enhancements gained from the new columnstore index in SQL Server 2012, you’ll see why many are calling this one of the most important features in the history of SQL Server. In this presentation, I’ll talk about the physical aspects of columnstore index in SQL Server 2012, how to create it, and what environments (mainly data warehousing environments) and queries can make use of it. I’ll show performance benchmarks between columnstore indexes in SQL Server 2012, and compare them to index strategies prior to SQL Server 2012. I’ll also show how the new Batch execution mode can improve performance as well. Finally, I’ll talk about the new xVelocity (formerly “Vertipaq”) engine in Analysis Services 2012, its relationship to the Columnstore index, and the benefits.
Presenter: Kevin S. Goff
Kevin S. Goff (http://www.kevinsgoff.net) is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP, SQL Server/Business Intelligence Practice Manager for SetFocus LLC, author of 2 books, regular columnist for CoDe Magazine on .NET, SQL Server, and Business Intelligence topics, and a frequent speaker at community events in the Mid-Atlantic region.
Contact URL: http://www.KevinSGoff.net
Date/Time:
11-12-2012 6:00 P.M. – 8:30 P.M.
Location:
Microsoft NYC offices, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10104
