Hortonworks Makes Enterprise Hadoop Platform Cloud-Agnostic

Jun 11, 2015

HDP clusters can now be automatically provisioned in any cloud

Power BI Preview Gaining Market Momentum

Jun 03, 2015

If you have not been following the new Power BI Preview, now may be the right time to jump on board. Compelling weekly releases of popular data sources, new mobile BI apps and enhancements to the desktop Power BI Designer app are reviving inter...

What is Coming in SQL Server 2016 for Business Intelligence

Jun 03, 2015

Over the past few years we did not hear anything from Microsoft about SQL Server on-premises business intelligence enhancements. The extended cricket-chirping silence left us speculating about the future of Reporting Services, Analysis Services...

Getting Started with Datazen, Microsoft’s New Mobile Dashboard Platform

May 26, 2015

Microsoft Datazen is a new tool from Microsoft built on a mature and time-tested foundation of enterprise services and visualization components from Component Art. Interactive, touch-friendly, analytic dashboards created by data...

Setting Up a Datazen Server

May 26, 2015

This is the second article in a series about the new mobile dashboard addition to the Microsoft BI platform

Datazen Mobile Dashboards with Analysis Services and Drill-through

May 26, 2015

Use Datazen to deliver analytic insights with Analysis Services, MDX and drill-through navigation between multiple dashboards.

Effective Data Visualization - The Eradication of Ruler Reports

Apr 30, 2015

I once had an efficiency consultant tell me that he went into an office looking for a ruler left out on someone’s desk. This was a sure sign that person received one or more reports that were so large and so complex, it was necessary to lay...

PASS Business Analytics Conference 2015: Day 2

Apr 22, 2015

The PASS Business Analytics Conference 2015 is for Data Analysts, Data Scientists and Data Engineers who work primarily within the Microsoft set of tools, whether locally or on Azure. Today was the end of the second and final day. of the...

PASS Business Analytics Conference 2015: Day 1

Apr 22, 2015

If you're involved in the analysis of data as a data engineer, data analyst or data scientist and you're using the tools from the Microsoft stack, chances are you are in Santa Clara California attending the 2015 PASS Business Analytics...

Google: Big Data Shouldn’t Be an Infrastructure Project

Apr 16, 2015

Brings service that replaced MapReduce into beta, enhances BigQuery performance, availability, security