One of your most valuable assets is the data you collect, but the mere collection of data is insufficient to bring about noticeable and positive change within your organization. Equally important to ...

With its growing emphasis on business-intelligence and analytics, Microsoft has a lot of different reporting options. It wasn't until I read a SQL Server blog post last week that I understood how the ...

Worldwide Partner Conference 2003, Microsoft Corp. announced the release of the first public beta of SQL Server (TM) 2000 Reporting Services beta 2. Reporting Services provides companies and ...

In the past few weeks, Microsoft has pushed out September updates to various components of Power BI. The desktop variant of the service was the first to be updated this month, followed by improvements ...

Microsoft’s been in the Business Intelligence (BI) game since the late 1990s, and its products in that space have been genuinely innovative. But Microsoft has added value to its BI stack only in fits ...

In my last article, I told you a bit about Microsoft’s overall big data strategy in SQL Server 2014 (which has just become available to customers) with a deep dive ...

“Maybe 10% to 20% of employees today use BI tools on any given day,” says Eron Kelly, general manager of SQL Server Marketing at Microsoft. “We want to help businesses grow the number of users. We’re ...