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Alberto Ferrari Welcomes You with DAX in Action!

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Alberto Ferrari and Marco Russo are world-renowned for their in-depth knowledge of SSAS, and they would like to share their skills with you, no matter how advanced you are, through our brand-new, online video learning series focused on Data Analysis Expressions. To help you get started, Alberto has recorded a free, 20-minute video “DAX in Action!”, in which he shows how to build a formula for a DAX calculated measure, which lets you count the number of repeat, active customers who have made a purchase. We are also offering a discount to celebrate our first birthday and to welcome our new authors.

  • 31 July 2012
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Sample Data for Learning Data Mining Published

We have just updated, and published, our sample data set, HappyCars, which is useful for learning Data Mining. It has been specially formulated to help you study various data mining algorithms. This data set comes with SQL Server 2012 data tables and views, as well as a SQL Server Data Tools project, containing several data mining structures, and mining models. This set is designed as bonus material, to be used while practicing many of the demos shown in our data mining videos.

HappyCars is available to Full Access Members, and it can be found here. 

  • 6 July 2012
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Data Mining: New Module Published on Model Building, Testing, and Predicting

We have just published the newest addition to the Data Mining online video training course. The third module in this series shows you how to: build, train, validate, and use for predictions (score) models, using your data. In this 1-hour-20-minute video you will also see 11 demos demonstrating every step in the process of working with a mining model, using a simple case of modelling customer characteristics, in order to predict sales to future, potential customers. You can find this module by clicking here. You need to be a Full Access Member to view this video.

  • 30 June 2012
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Data Mining Course Launched

We have just launched our most-asked-for online video training course: Data Mining! In this series, you will find video tutorials and articles focusing on all aspects of this powerful form of advanced analytics. Two modules are already available at the time of the launch of this course: a 20-minute Introduction to Data Mining with Microsoft SQL Server, available free-of-charge, and a 50-minute Data Mining Concepts and Tools module, which discusses such fundamental topics as Cases, Mining Structures, and Mining Algorithms, available to Full Access Members.

  • 28 May 2012
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Power View Training Module Launched

The Power View module of our brand-new SQL Server 2012 BI online training has just been published. It is a 75-minute video, containing 17 hi-def demos, many explanations, and a good few slides. You will learn about all the Power View fundamentals, including: sourcing data from a BI Semantic Model, measures, visualisations, such as bubble charts, and exporting reports to PowerPoint.

If you would like to find out what is covered by this module, visit the module’s page, and have a look at the “Jump to a chapter” markers, in the right-hand column—and take advantage of them while watching, to navigate the video the way you like to learn.

This content requires our keenly priced Full Access Membership in order to watch it.

  • 18 April 2012
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SQL Server 2012 Shipped Today

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Microsoft have just released SQL Server 2012, earlier today. It is now generally available for purchase, and you can download its various trial editions, and add-ons, such as the new, yet still free, PowerPivot for Excel. Now is a great time to learn what is new about it from the perspective of Business Intelligence, as that is a key strength of this new product.

  • 2 April 2012
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Why Use Apache Hadoop, Big Data, and Microsoft?

Rafal has just written an in-depth article on the possible business uses of Big Data and Apache Hadoop, especially in combination with the Microsoft Application Platform. Click here to read it.

  • 2 April 2012
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BISM and SSAS Training Module Just Launched

We have just launched our newest, online, video-based, training module, focusing on BISM and SSAS Tabular Mode. You can access it by clicking here.

Although listed as the fourth module of our SQL Server 2012 BI course, it is only the third one that we have launched, so far. Module three, which focuses on Power View, is now in post-production, and we plan to launch it in April [Update 18 April 2012: Power View module is already live.]

  • 27 March 2012
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xVelocity, Vertipaq, and BI Semantic Model

Microsoft have announced that the name Vertipaq is changing to xVelocity In-Memory Analytics Engine at the same time as SQL Server 2012 launched, on 7 March 2012. Vertipaq was the name of the in-memory tabular compression and analysis engine of PowerPivot, introduced a few years ago, with SQL Server 2008 R2. Let us help you get some clarity with regards to those name changes.

Launching our Subscription and SQL Server 2012 BI Online Training

We have just launched our first-ever, paid-for content on projectbotticelli.com, and we are pleased with it. For less than a cost of a taxi to a conference venue, you can learn about what is new in SQL Server 2012 BI in our in-depth, hi-def online course—see its description here. To start, two of the modules are online: Introduction to SQL BI, that covers 10 key BI features, and which includes a good introduction to the concepts of Apache Hadoop and its integration with the Microsoft Application Platform.

  • 14 March 2012
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