Microsoft Canada Webcasts: Power BI, Predictive Analytics and SQL Server as a Service

 

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You are invited.

We’ve had a great response to the various virtual training events we’ve been posting. Continuing that momentum‚ Microsoft Canada is hosting a Microsoft Data Platform webcast series.

These events are designed to help you learn more about the latest Microsoft Data Platform solutions: Power BI‚ Azure Machine Learning for Predictive Analytics and SQL Server 2014.

Webinars schedule:

·  November 13. 1PM-2PM EST Power BI‚ more than just pretty face - How to get real insights in addition to incredible visualizations. Register for this webinar on-demand here.

·  November 26. 1PM-2PM EST Leverage Predictive Analytics with Azure Machine Learning to take your business to the next level. Register for this webinar on-demand here.  

·  December 11. 1PM-2PM EST Delivering SQL Server as a Service. Register for this webinar on- demand here.  

Please find more information about each webcast below.
 

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 Power BI‚ more than a pretty face - How to get real insights in addition to incredible visualizations. Join the speaker as he goes beyond the incredible visualizations of Power BI and shows how real life insights and potential savings may be achieved. The presenter will be sharing real life learnings from his many interactions with customers on how to gain value from the PowerBI family. These may include or but not be limited to PowerPivot‚ PowerView‚ PowerQuery and Natural Language querying with Power BI Q&A.

Leverage Predictive Analytics with Azure Machine Learning to take your business to the next level. Machine Learning enables breakthrough business scenarios in areas such as predictive maintenance‚ customer insight‚ fraud detection‚ text analytics‚ energy conservation‚ and many more. Up to now‚ the power of machine learning has only been utilized by a very small number of organizations and has required highly trained and specialized data scientists. Discover how Azure Machine Learning is democratizing predictive analytics by providing a data science experience that is directly accessible to business analysts and domain experts‚ reducing complexity and broadening participation through better tooling. Learn how you can build a predictive analytics model using machine learning over data and hear about real-world customer success stories.

Delivering SQL Server as a Service. IT organizations want to provide a multitenant SQL Server “Database as a Service” offering to improve consolidation and automation and move to a pay-per-use model. Understand how you can deliver an on premises SQL Server as a Service offering with a self-service portal‚ Service Management Automation‚ and charge back capabilities. We will review the capabilities provided by SQL Server‚ System Center‚ and the Windows Azure Pack as well as key technical considerations. We will also explore opportunities to use Microsoft Azure to augment your private cloud DBaaS implementation.

† No purchase necessary. Contest open to residents of Canada excluding Quebec. There are 5 prizes available per webcast (total of 15 prizes) to be won consisting of SQL Server 2014 Power Stick (est. retail value $10). Selected participant is required to answer correctly a skill-testing question. The contest closes on December 17‚ 2014. For full contest rules go to https://aka.ms/wsrr