Search results matching tags 'Best Practices' and 'Business Intelligence'

PASS Summit 2010 BI Workshop: Slides & Demos available to all attendees

manowar — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:16:25 GMT

I’ve just released on SkyDrive (http://bit.ly/ghPeaa) all the demo material I’ve used in my BI Workshop at the PASS Summit. The zip file also contains the DLPC tool and the latest revision of the slide deck (only some minor syntax errors corrected).

As the related “Readme.txt” file says, the zip file is protected with a password. The password is simply the first point of the agenda (All attendees received the printed version of the slide deck. The agenda is in the third slide).

Enjoy!

PASS Workshop “Creating a BI solution from A to Z” - Interview

manowar — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:16:27 GMT

If you’re still unsure if the workshop I’ll deliver at PASS Summit the next November - “Creating a BI solution from A to Z” - is a good choice for you or not, you can get some more details reading the brief interview here:

PASS Summit Post-Con Preview - Davide Mauri

Where you’ll find answers to the following questions:

Is there an audience that would benefit especially from this session?
After having attended your seminar, what are two or three things that an attendee will be able to take back to the office and put to use right away?
What background should attendees ideally have to be fully prepared for your seminar?
What experience are you, as a speaker, bringing to this session?

That may help you to take your final decision. More than 20 people already decided to come: you’ll be in good company! :)

BI Virtual Chapter: “Adaptive BI: Engineering a BI Solution”

manowar — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:54:27 GMT

On the next 20th Semptember I’ll deliver a session on a topic that is IMHO really important but is not yet covered enough:

Adaptive BI: Engineering a BI Solution

Are you starting to create a BI solution....but where do you begin with? How to setup everything correctly so that you'll be able to handle new features required by the customers easily and without too much effort? Which standard do you put in place so that everyone who will join the project will be immediately operative? How do you define your BI architecture so that it can be sound and flexible and the same time? All these questions come out every time someone has to start a BI project. In this session I'll present a set of standard rules we use to create our BI project, consolidated in more than five years of development (since SQL 2005 was released) and that allow to put some technical rules that helps you to start in the correct way right from the beginning: naming convention, architecture decisions, database unit testing, layering and everything you need to know to build an "Adaptive" Business Intelligence solution. The idea is to be flexible in terms of architectural decision but have some well-known rules in the solution to make it “engineerable”: in one word..."Adaptive"!

If you’re into BI this session can give you some interesting ideas on how to structure your next project. See you in cyberspace here

https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=C97PWB&role=attend&pw=Z%40%2B%5Ew%2B%40h4

on Sept 20th at 12pm EST.

At the end of the session I’ll show also how the rules can be applied automatically with the right tools, creating an entire package to load a dimension in less then 1 minute, with all best pratices and standard in place!

PASS Summit 2010 – BI Workshop

manowar — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:01:10 GMT

PASS Summit 2010 Pre & Post conference are out! This year I’ll deliver the “Creating BI Solution from A to Z” seminar in which, as the title implies, attendees will see how to create a BI solution starting from scratch. Going through the dimensional modeling and the creation of the Datawarehouse, the implementation of the ETL process with SSIS, the creation of cube with Analysis Services and reports with Reporting Services with, if time permits, also a glance at PowerPivot, attendees will get a solid ground on the whole process that drives the creation of a BI solution.

The workshop will also show all the best practices and the best methodological approach matured in more than 5 years of working in the BI field.

If you’ll be working on BI or you already have a created an initial BI solution and you want to be sure you’re following the right path, this is workshop is for you!

Don’t miss it!