Microsoft SQL Server & BI Presentation at TI2011
Below are links to download the SQL Server / Business Intelligence sessions presented by Jeff Jones, Tony Harris and Kathrine Lord at Interface Tech Immersion 2011.
Jeff Jones is a SQL Server Guru and Director of SQL Technologies at Interface Technical Training. Katherine Lord is an Application Platform Strategist at Microsoft. Tony Harris is Principal Technology Strategist at Microsoft.
Session 1: PowerPivot with Excel 2010
Presenter: Jeff Jones
Ever need to extract a few million rows from a database into Excel so you could do some data analysis? Now Excel 2010 with the PowerPivot add-in can do the job. This presentation will review this powerful new capability and how it can be used to implement self-service Business Intelligence for power users in your environment. We will review the data sources that are supported, the data modeling capability and new Data Analysis Expression language that is part of PowerPivot.
Session 2: Using Report Parts to Support Self-Service Reporting with SSRS 2008 R2
Presenter: Tony Harris
No organization can have enough people to satisfy all their data reporting requirements. So it has become imperative to find a way to increase the number of non-IT people that can satisfy their own reporting needs. With the implementation of Reporting Services 2008 R2, Microsoft has provided a new cooperative reporting model called Report Parts. This presentation will review how Report Builder 3.0 can publish and use Report Parts to support a self-service reporting environment.
Session 3: Deploying PowerPivot Applications Enterprise-wide using SharePoint
Presenter: Jeff Jones
Power users have a great new tool to build their own data analysis application with Excel and the PowerPivot add-in. As more users adopt these individual applications, users will look for IT to maintain these applications and provide a shared data environment. With SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services and Sharepoint 2010, individual PowerPivot spreadsheets can be uploaded and deployed enterprise-wide.
Session 4: Performance Point Services 2010
Presenter: Kathrine Lord
PerformancePoint Services, a component of SharePoint, allow organizations to create scorecards, analytic reports, and dashboards in a familiar and easy to use interface that builds on the Microsoft Office technologies. Join us as Microsoft Business Intelligence subject matter expert, Kathrine Lord explores PerformancePoint and dives into and the Dashboard Designer demonstrating how to create reports, analytic charts, grids, scorecards and dashboards.
A Simple Introduction to Cisco CML2
Mark Jacob, Cisco Instructor, presents an introduction to Cisco Modeling Labs 2.0 or CML2.0, an upgrade to Cisco’s VIRL Personal Edition. Mark demonstrates Terminal Emulator access to console, as well as console access from within the CML2.0 product. Hello, I’m Mark Jacob, a Cisco Instructor and Network Instructor at Interface Technical Training. I’ve been using … Continue reading A Simple Introduction to Cisco CML2
Configuring Windows Mobility Center and How to Turn it On and Off
Video transcription Steve Fullmer: In our Windows training courses, we often share information about the Windows 8.1 Mobility Center. Mobility Center was introduced for mobile and laptop devices in Windows 7. It’s present and somewhat enhanced in Windows 8. Since we don’t have mobile devices in our classrooms, I decided to take a little bit … Continue reading Configuring Windows Mobility Center and How to Turn it On and Off
How to use AWS CloudFormation templates to automate solutions inside Amazon AWS
In the AWS Class here at Interface, we actually build fully automated solutions with AWS CloudFormations. Here’s an overview of using AWS templates using CloudFormation. CloudFormation is basically an “infrastructure-as-code tool” where you can go into a declarative document and define all the resources that you want and feed the document into the CloudFormation … Continue reading How to use AWS CloudFormation templates to automate solutions inside Amazon AWS
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