CategoryBusiness Intelligence

I recently presented a free webinar for Pragmatic Works Free Training on the T’s about Getting Started With Analysis Services. We covered some of the differences between the two project types at a high level then built one of each to give everyone an idea of how difficult and how fast each could be developed. If you attended I want to say thank you. It’s always appreciated when people...

I recently presented a free webinar for Pragmatic Works Free Training on the T’s about new Business Intelligence features in SharePoint 2013. If you attended I want to say thank you. It’s always a fun time presenting and the audience is always a lot of fun to interact with before presenting. If you were unable to join the session here is a link to the recording that you can watch for...

It’s time for another free webinar!! Whether you like it or not SharePoint is here to stay! With every release of SQL Server or SharePoint (which follow different release cycles) the feature set for Business Intelligence professionals gets more fragmented and more complicated. If I want to get Feature A what combination of SQL Server and SharePoint do I need? All valid questions. I’ll...

Come get your learn on with Pragmatic Works and myself! In January I’ll be dropping some knowledge about change data capture and how to consume it with SSIS. CDC is one of the features I wish more of my clients were leveraging. It makes doing incremental loads dramatically more simplified. In this session I’ll show you quickly how to enable CDC then how to use SSIS to consume the data...

On Thursday of this week I will be presenting a webinar for Pragmatic Works Free Training on the T’s. I hear Rachel is planning on doing leprechaun facts before I present and you won’t want to miss those. My topic this week is going to be SSIS Tips and Tricks. Find all the relevant information after the break! Topic: SSIS Tips and Tricks Instructor: Bradley Schacht...

Thank you to everyone who attended my free webinar on August 29, 2013 where I talked about using the Data Mining Add-in for Excel. If you were unable to attend you can find the recording here. You can also check out all the Pragmatic Works Free Training videos here. I discussed why data mining is useful to organizations, showed how to download and install the plug-in using Excel 2013 and then how...