Yesterday I spent the longest day at this TechEd: we talked with many people at Community Night until 9pm and I have to say that just a few months after Analysis Services 2012 has been released, there are many people already using it. And the adoption  Read more

This is the second day at TechEd North America 2012 and yesterday I had many conversations about PowerPivot and SSAS Tabular. In the evening the book signing at O’Reilley booth has been a big success! I’m writing this post from the speaker’s room. It’s  Read more

As you might have read in the previous post, May is a busy month for all the editions of the SSAS Tabular Workshop . We’ll start with an online edition next week in a time slot that should be good for US and other countries in that time zones. Then there  Read more

Next week I will finally start the roadshow of the SSAS Tabular Workshop , a 2-day seminar about the new BISM Tabular model for Analysis Services that has been introduced in SQL Server 2012. During these roadshows, we always try to arrange some speeches  Read more

I recently joined Chris Webb , Jen Stirrup and Alberto Ferrari as PASS Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Virtual Chapter for Europe. We will increase the number of virtual sessions delivered in a comfortable European time zone and we are looking  Read more

As I already announced on this blog some weeks ago, there will be a PowerPivot Workshop in Lisbon (Portugal) on September 19-20, 2011. The evening of September 19 there will be also a free community event in Lisbon where Alberto will speak: you can find  Read more

The next Monday, March 21st, I will join a special event organized by the Danish SQL Server User Group , Excelbi.dk and the Swedish SQL Server User Group . The meeting will start at 18:00 at the Radisson Royal Blu in Copenhagen, and this is the topic  Read more

This the second time in a row I will not able to attend to SQLBits - but don't lose this event if you can go to Manchester on March 28th, 2009. The conference is free, but registration is required. A training day (with a reasonable fee) is also scheduled  Read more

The Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference 2007 website is now live. The conference is scheduled on May 9-11, 2007, in Seattle, WA. It's not a "traditional" Microsoft technical conference like TechEd and PDC: it's targeted more on project managers,  Read more