NJSQL Business Intelligence Saturday
Microsoft’s Business Intelligence has evolved over the past year to provide a full vendor solution. Let’s embrace it and take some time to learn more about this powerful suite of tools used to create business intelligence solutions. Please join the NJ SQL Server User Group for this free event. Please note that registration is required for this event.
Date: Saturday, October 4th
Location:
NJ Microsoft Office
194 Wood Avenue South (Prudential Building), Sixth Floor
Iselin, NJ 08830
Required Registration Link(Required):
http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=131668
Agenda:
8:30am - 9:00am: Registration / Breakfast
9:00am - 9:15am: Event Kick-Off
9:15am - 10:15am: Microsoft’s Vision for Business Intelligence (Mark Kromer)
10:15am - 10:30am: Break
10:30am - 11:30am: SQL Server Reporting Services (Kevin Goff)
11:30am - 11:45am: Wrap-up, Evaluation Form Submission & Raffle
Contributors: SetFocus & Microsoft
Abstracts
Microsoft’s Vision for Business Intelligence:
There is no single product line from Microsoft that equates to the "Microsoft business Intelligence roadmap". Instead, Microsoft's vision for business intelligence is a combination of different product roadmaps. These include SQL Server, PerformancePointServer, Excel and Sharepoint. Microsoft is beginning to focus more and more energy toward increasing BI presence in Sharepoint, while SQL Server 2008 includes several key new features in Integration Services, Reporting Services, Analysis Services and the database engine which illustrate's Microsoft dedication to investing resources in business intelligence.
In this presentation, I will illustrate the latest Microsoft vision for business intelligence and speak about the "product stack" as a whole solution including PPS, MOSS & SQL Server applied to a number of different business intelligence solution areas.
SQL Server Reporting Services:
Are you trying to learn how to use (SSRS) SQL Server Reporting Services, and would like to learn more than just the basics?
Are you trying to author complicated report forms in SSRS?
Are you trying to incorporate SSRS into a relational database or OLAP database environment
Are you interested in seeing the new features in SSRS 2008?
Are you struggling with integrating SSRS into a SharePoint environment?
If the answer is “yes” to any of these, then this presentation is for you. I’ll cover some real-world examples using SSRS, with focus on building output against SQL Server data warehouses.
Bios
Mark Kromer
Mark Kromer is a software product manager with over 15 years experience in IT, specializing in database solutions and business intelligence. Mark is currently responsible for new product development strategy at Primavera Systems in Philadelphia and spent the past 2.5 years in Redmond, WA as a senior product manager at Microsoft where he was responsible for packaged customer business intelligence solutions. Previous to Microsoft, Mark has been a developer, consultant, IT manager and business analyst at Cingular Wireless, Agilent Technologies and Dun & Bradstreet. He also is an author & blogger for TDWI, SearchSQLServer and MSDN.
Kevin Goff:
Kevin Goff is a Microsoft MVP .NET/C# (2005-2008), a columnist for CoDe Magazine(The Baker's Dozen Productivity Series), book author (Pro Visual Studio 2005 Reporting with SQL Server and Crystal Reports - Apress), Trainer/Courseware author (SetFocus Business Intelligence Masters program), a frequent speaker for MSDN CodeCamp and .NET/SQL Server User Groups with 22 years experience in software industry.
Web Site: http://www.CommonGroundSolutions.net
Blog: http://www.TheBakersDozen.net
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