Rafal Lukewiecki Business Intelligence Seminar in January
I have great news for you – top TechEd speaker Rafal Lukewiecki is coming to Dublin in January to deliver a (free) full day Business Intelligence seminar! Book your place now to avoid disappointment.
This event is a full day, instructor led seminar taking place on January 19th, 2010 that will provide you with a unique opportunity to examine an end-to-end approach to building and delivering a BI solution using the Microsoft BI platform, focusing on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft Office System 2010.
Microsoft Solutions for Business Intelligence
Venue: Burlington Hotel, Upper Leeson Street, Dublin 4
Timing: 08:30-17:00
Registration: Register your attendance here
Event Description:
Improving decision-making and creating better insight into the functioning of a complex organisation is a number one concern of IT professionals and this is reflected in Business Intelligence being consistently rated at the top spot in many IT priorities studies. In response to this Microsoft has built a broad, integrated, easy-to-use, and rich platform for delivering BI which has been updated with the best of data integration and transformation, warehousing, and multidimensional analysis. Microsoft tools and technologies are designed to work the way that you like: Excel-style for the user, Visual Studio-like for a developer, SSMS for database experts, and MMC-like for IT professionals.
For this full day seminar we are delighted to be joined by Rafal Lukewiecki from Project Botticelli. In his role as Strategic Consultant at Project Botticelli Ltd. Rafal is responsible for analysing and forecasting trends in the field of Information Technology. He specialises in a number of areas including; business intelligence, statistics, data mining, security and cryptography, IT architecture, and management of solution delivery
Who should attend?
IT Managers, BI Practitioners, IT Professionals, and BI Developers
Agenda Overview: .
08:30-09:00 Breakfast & Registration
09:00-09:15 Introduction to Microsoft Business Intelligence – Barry McMahon, Microsoft Ireland
09:15-09:25 Overview of the Day – Rafal Lukewiecki
09:25-10:40 Session 1: The Big Picture of Business Intelligence: Goals, Concepts, and the Platform
This session will introduce the overall picture of Business Intelligence and will relate the Microsoft BI Platform to it. Fundamental concepts, such as Master Data Management, Data Warehousing, Self-service Analysis, Dimensions, Facts, and Measures will be introduced, too. Technology, stressing the newly released products, will be briefly discussed and the overall road ahead will be outlined.
10:40-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:15 Session 2: The Knowledge Worker’s Perspective: Self-Service of BI
The most demanded and the fastest growing form of BI is the self-service, personal BI. This session will concentrate on how Office System 2010, in particular SharePoint 2010 and its PerformancePoint Services enable anyone to create and use BI in an organisation. We will also introduce the very new Microsoft PowerPivot stressing how existing Excel skills enable self-service analysis by intermediate and more advanced users. We will also mention other self-service aspects of BI, such as self-service reporting. This session will also discuss the IT Professional challenge of managing the life cycle of a potentially fast, organically growing BI system built by its users.
12:15-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:15 Session 3: The IT Perspective: Data Warehousing, Management, and Analytical Structures
This session aims to take a look at BI capabilities of the SQL Server 2008 R2. We will introduce Master Data Management and new approaches to massive Data Warehousing. We will look at the way in which SQL Server functions as part of the overall BI Platform. Naturally, the fundamental BI functions of SQL Server, such as Data Integration and OLAP will also be discussed in order to enable all attendees to start planning their BI infrastructure after attending this seminar.
14:15-14:35 Coffee Break
14:35-15:50 Session 4: The Analyst’s Perspective: Ad-hoc Analysis with Microsoft PowerPivot and Office 2010 Excel
Returning to the key theme of this seminar, the self-service nature of BI, we will dive deeper into the most exciting of the recent additions to the Microsoft BI platform, the Microsoft PowerPivot. We will look at the ways in which an analyst can use their existing knowledge of Excel to perform advanced analysis of large data sets, including their acquisition and later publication. Briefly, we will introduce a new language for analysis known as DAX which can help more advanced users create powerful analytical applications all inside Excel and PowerPivot. Finally, we will review the existing Data Mining technologies of SQL Server 2008 R2 thus completing the day’s thorough journey through the Microsoft BI Platform.
15:50-16:05 Summary: Microsoft BI for Your Enterprise
16:05-16:30 Interactive Q&A
16:30-16:45 Close
I hope to see you there!
