Upcoming Partner Readiness LiveMeetings
SQL41PAL: Native Data Connectivity with SQL Server 2008
Presented by Vaughn Washington
Friday, June 13, 2008
8:00 – 9:00 AM Pacific Time (GMT-07:00)
Level 200
Partner Type: Managed (Field Managed Service Partner), Regional Solution Partner, Systems Integrator, Value Added Provider
Partner Role: Architect, Implementer
SQL Server 2008 introduces a significant amount of new functionality, including extended data types, enhanced programmability, and improved large object support. In this session I will discuss how you can take advantage of the new functionality within your application development as well as cover the range of native data access technologies (ODBC, OLE DB, and briefly PHP) available for leveraging the power of SQL Server 2008.
BTS12PAL: Building SOA Governance Solutions with AmberPoint and Microsoft
Presented by Ofer Ashkenazi and Leo McDermott
Thursday, June 19, 2008
9:30 – 10:30 AM Pacific Time (GMT-07:00)
Level 200
Partner Type: Enterprise Software Advisor, Independent Software Vendor, Regional Solution Partner, Systems Integrator
Partner Role: Implementer, Marketing, Sales
Learn first-hand how companies like Kaiser, Healthways and MedicAlert are using the combined capabilities of BizTalk Server and AmberPoint to satisfy their SOA Governance requirements in both .NET and heterogeneous environments. Specifically, the team from AmberPoint will show how their product can enforce policies while monitoring and managing .NET and heterogeneous SOA environments. Additionally, the speakers will discuss their complimentary relationship with the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).
SQL40PAL: Entity Framework and SQL Server 2008
Presented by Alex James and Diego Vega
Thursday, June 19, 2008
8:00 – 9:00 AM Pacific Time (GMT-07:00)
Level 200
Partner Type: Managed (Field Managed Service Partner), Regional Solution Partner, Systems Integrator, Value Added Provider
Partner Role: Architect, Implementer
In this session Alex James and Diego Vega, both Program Managers on the Entity Framework team, will use the Entity Framework with SQL 2008. We will spend some time using new server types like Time, Date, DateTime2, DateTimeOffset and FileStream.
BI36PAL: Choosing and Configuring a Scalable BI Infrastructure
Presented by Erik Veerman and Raheel Retiwalla
Friday, June 20, 2008
8:00 – 9:00 AM Pacific Time (GMT-07:00)
Level 200
Partner Type: Independent Software Vendor, Microsoft Employee, Systems Integrator
Partner Role: Architect, Developer, Implementer
The Microsoft Business Intelligence solution provides a robust BI platform in SQL Server, end user tools with Excel 2007, ProClarity and Performance Management application in PerformancePoint. With a variety of possible hardware configurations to account for various activities within a Business Intelligence solution including data storage, ETL, OLAP, desktop and web based client tools, this session provides insights into considerations for building the most scalable infrastructure. The session also discusses data security access specifically in a multi server deployment scenario.
The takeaways from this session will be:
· Identifying Hardware Needs
· Scale-out vs. scale-up vs. distributed for data warehousing, ETL, OLAP, Reporting and Performance Management
· High availability and ETL
· Tool Architectures
· Rich client tools
· Middle tier tools
· User data access security with insights into Kerberos Delegation
· Disk IO Considerations
BI40PAL: Implementing and Tuning your BI Solution
Presented by Erik Veerman and Raheel Retiwalla
Monday, June 23, 2008
8:00 – 9:00 AM Pacific Time (GMT-07:00)
Level 200
Partner Type: Independent Software Vendor, Microsoft Employee, Systems Integrator
Partner Role: Architect, Developer, Implementer
The Microsoft Business Intelligence solution provides a robust BI platform in SQL Server, end user tools with Excel 2007, ProClarity and Performance Management application in PerformancePoint. This session provides insight into Business Intelligence team development, understanding and identifying performance bottleneck across SQL Server Relational Database, Analysis Services, Integration Services, Reporting Services and PerformancePoint Server. Finally, the session will provide optimization techniques for the above identified bottlenecks. Together with the previous session, you will have an ability to understand how to choose, implement and optimize the most scalable Business Intelligence infrastructure.
BI50PAL: HP Intel End to End Microsoft Business Intelligence Reference Configurations
Presented by Raheel Retiwalla and Jeff Spiller
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
8:00 – 9:00 AM Pacific Time (GMT-07:00)
Level 300
Partner Type: Independent Software Vendor, Microsoft Employee, Systems Integrator
Partner Role: Architect, Developer, Implementer
The Microsoft Business Intelligence solution provides a robust BI platform in SQL Server, end user tools with Excel 2007, ProClarity and Performance Management application in PerformancePoint. Customers need help in building a scalable and predictable hardware infrastructure that can support the many requirements of a comprehensive Business Intelligence solution. HP and Intel provide multi server Reference Configurations addressing various data sizes ranging from 500 GB to 10 TB both on the x64 and Itanium platforms. These Reference Configurations address the deployment of all the above mentioned Microsoft Business Intelligence Products in a multi server environment. In addition, HP provides a brand new HP BI Sizer that allows customers to build the most optimum hardware configuration for Microsoft Business Intelligence.
In this session we will introduce you to the various HP and Intel Reference Configurations, discuss the methodology that HP used for sizing the Reference Configurations and finally demo the use of the new HP BI Sizer. This will enable you to provide additional insight to your customers as they demand comprehensive guidance from you regarding the approach they should take in the deployment of their Business Intelligence infrastructure.