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Supporting Better Business Decisions
with Business Intelligence and SQL Server Analysis Services

Join us for a free 2-day, invitation only training seminar to help you use technologies you probably already own to do more with business intelligence.

In this uncertain financial climate BI is no longer a luxury afforded by larger organizations – it is now considered an essential part of the IT portfolio. While driving better decision-making throughout your organization may be key to success, simply providing volumes of data or reports is usually not enough.  There is a solution and you may likely already own the technology. SQL Server Analysis Services is designed to translate data into business models that facilitate insightful decision making. 

Date/Time:
Mon, May 11 – Tues, May 12
8:30 – 5:00 pm

Location:
Microsoft Office – Irvine
3 Park Plaza
Suite 1600
Irvine, California 92614

This seminar is densely packed with real world examples and numerous practical demonstrations.  By the end of the two days, attendees can reasonably expect to be both inspired and empowered to implement robust analytic solutions.

Who should attend

• Any IT professional with an interest in learning more about BI, data analysis and data mining
• Business professionals interested to understand and evaluate Microsoft’s BI strategy and platforms.
• Apart from a general understanding of relational database technologies, there is no requirement to have any background or experience with OLAP or data mining technologies.

Day One         
09:00    09:30    30    Defining Business Intelligence
09:30    10:00    30    Introducing Dimensional Modelling Techniques
10:00    10:15    15    Introduction to OLAP
10:15    10:30    15    ** MORNING BREAK **
10:30    12:00    90    Designing and Developing Dimensions and Cubes
12:00    13:00    60    ** LUNCH BREAK
13:00    14:00    60    Enriching the UDM Design with Calculations, KPIs, Actions, Perspectives and Translations
14:00    14:45    45    Optimizing, Managing, Securing and Scaling the UDM
14:45    15:00    15    ** AFTERNOON BREAK **
15:00    16:00    60    Querying and Consuming the UDM
16:00    16:30    30    Next Generation OLAP from Microsoft
16:30    17:00    30    Q and A

Day Two         
09:00    09:30    30    Introduction to Data Mining
09:30    10:15    45    Introducing the SQL Server Data Mining Algorithms
10:15    10:30    15    ** MORNING BREAK **
10:30    12:00    90    Introducing the SQL Server Data Mining Algorithms (Continued)
12:00    13:00    60    ** LUNCH BREAK
13:00    14:00    60    Querying and Visualizing Data Mining Results
14:00    14:45    45    Integrating Data Mining with SQL Server
14:45    15:00    15    ** AFTERNOON BREAK **
15:00    16:15    75    Embedding Data Mining Results into Applications
16:15    16:30    15    Next Generation Data Mining from Microsoft
16:30    17:00    30    Q and A

Registration:
If you’re a customer of mine, please contact me for details on how to register.  This will be an extremely packed class so only invited Enterprise guests will be allowed to participate.