Tomorrow will mark another chapter in the 24 Hours of PASS series.I am involved once again - this time in a moderator role. The event begins at 8am ET for me.  I will be introducing Alberto Ferrari who will be speaking on ''Excel 2013 Power Pivot in Action'' which is a great self-service BI story. This 24hop event will be in a different ...

Yesterday has been published my Q&A interview on my Pre-Conference Workshop at SQL Pass 2012. It’s a good way to understand what will be discussed in the workshop, so if you’re interested or you’re into the Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence field and want to understand how the Agile approach can help you, you can read it ...

I’m very pleased to announce that I’ll be delivering a Pre-Conference at PASS Summit 2012. I’ll speak about Business Intelligence again (as I did in 2010) but this time I’ll focus only on Data Warehouse, since it’s big topic even alone. I’ll discuss not only what is a Data Warehouse, how it can be modeled and built, but also how it’s development ...

Just reading from all posts and tweets it’s quite clear that this year’s PASS has been a great success. Despite of the bad cold that I had from Monday , I’ve enjoyed it at lot. All the parties, the friends, the community and the great content make PASS an appointment one that should not to be missed. I’ve also enjoyed a lot delivering “Temporal ...

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 ...

I’ve returned from PASS 2010 on late sunday and yesterday I spent pretty much of the time just catching up with all the ongoing projects. I’ll probably need some more days on this, but for the beginning of the next week I’ll be able to answer all the email received that concerns PASS Summit  and also put online the latest updated demos so ...

Microsoft recently announced a new roadmap for its BI architecture. The next version of SQL Server, codenamed “Denali”, is going to introduce a new semantic model named BISM (Business Intelligence Semantic Model). Analysis Services will host it and it will be queryable through MDX and DAX. DAX has been introduced in PowerPivot as an expression ...

Many thanks to all who attented to my webcast on Monday. I really appreciated your feedbacks and I already got some very interesting suggestion that I’ll surely implement. If you have more feedbacks you can leave them here: http://speakerrate.com/talks/4577-adaptive-bi-engineering-a-bi-solution  I must say that I would have liked to have ...

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 ...

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 ...