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Events

Published April 12, 2013

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Day 3: PASS Business Analytics Conference, Analytics in Action

It’s the final day of the PASS Business Analytics Conference. It’s been a valuable opportunity to learn from other industry leaders, partners and customers, all of whom have great ideas and insight on what the future of analytics looks like.

Events

Published April 11, 2013

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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.

Events

Published April 10, 2013

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Day 1: PASS Business Analytics Conference, The Art of Analytics

For the latest and greatest on business intelligence and business analytics, look no further than the PASS Business Analytics Conference, which kicks off today in Chicago.

Thought Leadership

Published April 4, 2013

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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.

Events

Published April 3, 2013

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Enter Our Daily Sweepstakes to Celebrate the Anniversary of SQL Server 2012!

This month, we are celebrating the one year anniversary of SQL Server 2012, and we’d like to give a little shout out to our community to say, “Happy anniversary!” We can hardly believe that it was just one year ago that SQL Server 2012 was released to manufacturing.

Events

Published March 18, 2013

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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.

Published March 14, 2013

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Navistar Uses Microsoft Big Data Solution to Determine Optimal Pricing Structure

The challenge of running a business is becoming more complex each day. Though data is more plentiful and accessible in current times, how to analyze that data and create actionable insights remains a challenge. Navistar, one of the world’s largest truck manufacturers and parts suppliers, has addressed the complexities of big data head on.

Thought Leadership

Published March 12, 2013

4 min read

PASS BAC Preview Series: Looking for Big Data Value in All the Wrong Places

In this guest post from Hyoun Park, PASS Business Analytics Conference (PASS BAC) speaker, we get an interesting twist on the challenge of Big Data and how to stop looking for solutions in all the wrong ways and all the wrong places. You can learn more from Hyoun at PASS BAC in his session, Building the Business Case for Big Data.

Thought Leadership

Published March 11, 2013

3 min read

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.

Events

Published March 8, 2013

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Look Who’s Spending Spring Break at the PASS Business Analytics Conference

The SQL Server community continues to wow us with your ways! Last week during the “Spend Spring Break at the PASS Business Analytics Conference” Challenge, we received an enormous number of great responses to our challenge question, “Tell us how a trip to #passbac would help you with your work?

Events

Published March 7, 2013

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Go ‘From Data to Insights’ on March 26th in an Exclusive Webcast from Microsoft and The Economist

Big data brings big challenges, but also opportunities–for people and companies to gain insight, spot trends and make decisions in ways never before thought possible. In the battle of the buzzwords, “big data” is poised to render “guestimation” obsolete.

Events

Published March 6, 2013

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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.

SQL Server Team articles

Day 3: PASS Business Analytics Conference, Analytics in Action

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

Day 1: PASS Business Analytics Conference, The Art of Analytics

SQL Server 2012 Common Criteria Certification

Enter Our Daily Sweepstakes to Celebrate the Anniversary of SQL Server 2012!

Gartner BI Summit 2013: Bringing Hadoop to the Enterprise

Navistar Uses Microsoft Big Data Solution to Determine Optimal Pricing Structure

PASS BAC Preview Series: Looking for Big Data Value in All the Wrong Places

PASS BAC Preview Series: Business Analytics Defined

Look Who’s Spending Spring Break at the PASS Business Analytics Conference

Go ‘From Data to Insights’ on March 26th in an Exclusive Webcast from Microsoft and The Economist

Make Yourself More Marketable at Certified Career Day

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