Preview of the Windows Azure HDInsight Service -- our cloud-based distribution of Hadoop – is broadly available through the Windows Azure Portal. The Windows Azure HDInsight Service is built on the Hortonworks Data Platform to ensure long term compatibility with Apache Hadoop , while providing customers...

Self service BI is getting lot of attention, and there are lot of tools out there in the market from multiple vendors. Some with real great visualization and leveraging the new in-memory processing models. Remember that when it comes to Self-service BI you want to make it as easy as possible for the...

I recently attended internal training on Microsoft Big Data presented by our partner in this space Horton Works. It was a bit of a learning curve as the world of Big Data is a paradigm shift to the relational world, or so I thought. It turns out it isn't that remarkably different. The Horton Works guys...

The managed self-service business intelligence (BI) capabilities of SQL Server 2012 and SharePoint Server 2010 make it easier than ever for business users to create and share rich, powerful BI solutions through familiar Microsoft Office applications, while allowing IT administrators to efficiently monitor...

I have recently had the opportunity to present on the topic of BigData at several forums including the DW 2.0 Asia-Pac Summit and at the Microsoft Big Picture event. At both these events there were sceptics of BigData and as such I thought I might write this blog post. I must agree partly though with...

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I see this occur quite often and even I keep on repeating this mistake – when it comes to setting up the Report Server URL and Report URL properties for a Reporting Services based report (in SharePoint integrated mode) in Performance Point Services Dashboard Designer. I will quite often just copy and...

This is one of those things that you can easily get wrong from time to time, (I have ), so thought I would share it on my blog and hopefully it will save some of you from facing the same issue. When you have Reporting Services running in SharePoint integrated mode and you want to enable an action on...

The Microsoft BI team have put together a great site on Technet, that has end-to-end guidance on how to implement BI solutions in your organizations. Additional scenarios will be added regularly, so add this site to your favourites and keep on visiting frequently. You can also leave comments on the topics...

  Microsoft has move to no. 1 on Ability to Execute which is heavily influenced by customer feedback on the customer survey.  We are particularly pleased at this strong customer recognition and validation. Gartner credits Microsoft for the solution’s TCO, high customer satisfaction on a number...

Here is your opportunity to help shape the future of Microsoft future of Cloud BI offering. Microsoft will be making Reporting Services available soon in the Azure platform. For more information see - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlazure/reporting.aspx . The Microsoft Business Intelligence Product...

We are excited to be hosting this year’s Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference 2010 in New Orleans, LA! We invite you to join us for this event which will showcase Microsoft’s market-leading business intelligence (BI) products, solution expertise and customer successes. Additionally, this year’s...

As part of the BIEB series, a short video of mine explaining Microsoft's BI capability has been published on The Australian newspaper website. Hope you find it informative and quickly summarises the concept of PowerPivot coming out shortly in SQL Server 2008 R2. Link to video: http://player.video...