Content type: Thought Leadership

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Microsoft Business Intelligence – our reporting roadmap 

While each year has seen advances across our product line, this past year’s progress is truly unprecedented. We firmly believe Microsoft now offers the industry’s most complete and modern business intelligence product family – with unmatched breadth and depth. At first approach, this depth can be overwhelming – how do all the components fit together? Where are things heading in the future?
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Come hear CVP James Phillips speak about advances in Microsoft Business Intelligence 

We are thrilled to have one of our PASS Summit Foundation Sessions presented by Corporate Vice President, James Phillips! He will share Microsoft Business Intelligence strategies, including an integrated view with Power BI, SSAS, and SSRS. James Phillips began his career writing software for the Apple II, TRS-80 and IBM PC platforms.
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Foundation Session with Corporate VP Joseph Sirosh on October 28 at PASS Summit 

New this year to PASS Summit are the ‘Foundation Sessions’ from Microsoft leaders! These will all occur on October 28th. The purpose of this to dive deeper into new and leading technologies that you want to know. From 1:30pm-2:45pm, one of the featured speakers is Corporate Vice President of the Information Management and Machine Learning group, Joseph Sirosh.
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Business Intelligence: Beyond Dashboards and Charts 

The term “business intelligence” (BI) tends to elicit visions of dashboards with red, yellow, and green indicators representing targets met (or not) or perhaps various types of charts and graphs. But the potential of BI can be much more interesting and significant in what it can help organizations accomplish.
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Avoiding technical debtor’s prison with the right data platform 

“Technical debtor’s prison” is a term I recently came across in a Forrester Research report, “CIOs’ Top Five Career-Ending Digital Transformation Challenges” by Bobby Cameron with Peter Burris, Rachael Klehm, and Rachel Birrell. The idea is that CIOs sometimes feel indebted to the specific technology that has a history of serving the organization well over time.
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Capturing the $1.6 trillion data dividend 

Knowing your data means knowing your business. Your data platform is what gains you that knowledge. Data has become one of the most valuable assets for organizations and is increasingly the focus for understanding customers, the market, and future opportunities. What may come as a surprise, however, is that the use of data in driving business decisions translates into a concrete financial advantage.
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Guest Blog: Delivering Transformational Outcomes with Hortonworks Data Platform 2.3 

Guest post by Rohit Bakhshi, Product Manager at Hortonworks Inc. Over the past two quarters, Hortonworks has been able to attract over 200 new customers.  We are feeding the hunger our customers have shown for Open Enterprise Hadoop over the past two years.  We are seeing truly transformational business outcomes delivered through the use of Hadoop across all industries.
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Big data needs a big cloud 

Brian Mitchell, Microsoft Senior Business Program Manager, took the stage at Ignite two weeks ago to discuss Planning Your Big Data Architecture on Azure. “Big Data” requires big scale. Mitchell covered how this is accomplished through storage strategies, partitioning, fault tolerance, and the right architecture to scale to the extremes of big data.
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Community Spotlight: Luan Moreno Medeiros Maciel, The Pythian Group 

In honor of the upcoming PASS Business Analytics conference, we wanted to take some time to spotlight the great work happening in the SQL and BI communities across the world. The conference is focused on business analytics, but PASS offers many great community activities for SQL Server and beyond. Learn about the various local and digital opportunities to connect with the PASS community here.
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Community Spotlight: Grant Fritchey, Red Gate Software 

In honor of the upcoming PASS Business Analytics conference, we wanted to take some time to spotlight the great work happening in the SQL and BI communities across the world. The conference is focused on business analytics, but PASS offers many great community activities for SQL Server and beyond. Learn about the various local and digital opportunities to connect with the PASS community here.