In this recorded webcast Thorogood Consultant Eddie Druce shares the latest updates from Microsoft to their extensive cloud and on-premises offerings for data and analytics.

There’s enhanced capability for Enterprise customers around Power BI, including new visualizations and self-service functionality. We also discuss the latest SQL Server release and look at new Azure cloud applications.

What to expect

We show you how Microsoft’s cloud-based capabilities and traditional on-premises enterprise products can be used together to create an agile business intelligence and analytics platform. In particular, we:

• Show how Power BI has significantly increased the potential for self-service data visualization and insight.
• Explore how the cloud and on-premises platforms can be brought together for a comprehensive hybrid architecture.
• Look at how the data modeling capabilities of self-service and enterprise tools, including the latest release of SQL Server 2017, rapidly respond to the ever-changing information needs of an organization.
• Share knowledge about the latest wave of enterprise business intelligence and analytics tools in SQL Server 2017, Microsoft Azure and Power BI.

Is it for you?

• Do you want to know more about the new tools and services being delivered by Microsoft?
• Are your users demanding access to new data faster than your current BI architecture can deliver it?
• Are you unsure how to incorporate cloud services into your Microsoft BI architecture?
• Do you have use cases for analytics that cannot be met by your existing tools?