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Day 2: PASS Business Analytics Conference, New 3D Mapping Analytics Tool for Excel 

Today at the PASS Business Analytics Conference, Microsoft technical fellow Amir Netz and partner manager Kamal Hathi took to the stage to demonstrate how people experience insights. As mentioned in yesterday’s blog post, understanding how people experience insights is critical to Microsoft as we look to build and improve our data platform.
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SQL Server 2012 Common Criteria Certification 

In February 2013 Microsoft received the Common Criteria (CC) certificate for SQL Server 2012 SP1 Enterprise Edition (English) x64 (Version 11.0.3000.0) at EAL4+ and compliant with U.S. Government Protection Profile for Database Management Systems, Version 1.3, 24 December 2010. See the actual CC certification screen shot below. This is the 7th CC certification for SQL Server, starting with SQL Server 2005 SP1 in 2007.
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Gartner BI Summit 2013: Bringing Hadoop to the Enterprise 

Gartner’s annual Business Intelligence & Analytics Summit kicked off earlier today where we are focused on sharing our perspective and solutions with customers, partners and industry leaders interested in big data and business intelligence. Later this week, we’ll also be at the GigaOM Structure event. While we’re out attending all these industry events, our engineering efforts have been moving at light speed.
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PASS BAC Preview Series: Business Analytics Defined 

The PASS Business Analytics Conference (PASSBAC) Preview Series continues with more great insights from PASS Board Member, Douglas McDowell, who gives unique perspective on what PASSBAC is and how this conference was developed to address the expanding technical education needs of its business community.
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Make Yourself More Marketable at Certified Career Day 

Did you know that 40% of workers believe that certification helped them find a job or led to a promotion? Certification has never been more critical for staying on top of future trends, including big data, in-memory technologies and cloud based & hybrid architectures—and, to keep you from saying these words: “It can’t be done.