Content type: Thought Leadership

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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). James specializes in Microsoft Analytics Platform System and delivers scale-out solutions that are both simple and elegant in their design. He is passionate about the community, sitting on both the PASS Board of Directors and the SQLBits organising committee.
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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.
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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.  In particular with this release Microsoft has added in-memory Online Transaction Processing delivering breakthrough performance for applications in throughput and latency.
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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.  I’m excited to announce another example of where we are delivering this to customers in conjunction with one of our partners. Microsoft and Hewlett Packard broke two world records in TPC-H 10 Terabyte and 3 Terabyte benchmarks for non-clustered configuration for superior data warehousing performance and price-performance.
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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. Satya outlined his vision of a platform built for an era of ambient intelligence.
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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. When faced with innovation, it is critical to determine when, where, and how to adopt the change. At Microsoft, we talk a lot about the shift to cloud computing.
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Top 3 Features I’m Excited About in SQL Server 2014 

Guest blog post by:  SQL Server MVP Adam Jorgensen – PASS Executive Vice President, Finance & Governance, and President of Pragmatic Works – has been leading innovative SQL Server and Business Intelligence organizations for over a decade. His passion is finding new and creative avenues for clients and the community to embrace innovation and lower barriers to implementation. You can read his blog at AjBigData.
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Data Visualizations 

A couple of weeks back was a really exciting time for us. Less than a year after we released Office 365 for Businesses, we announced the general availability of Power BI for Office 365. You may have read previous blog articles by Quentin Clark on “Making Big Data Work for Everyone” and Kamal Hathi on “Simplifying Business Intelligence through Power BI for Office 365”.