Microsoft adds forecasting capabilities to Power BI for O365 

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The PASS Business Analytics Conference — the event where big data meets business analytics – kicked off today in San Jose. Microsoft Technical Fellow Amir Netz and Microsoft Partner Director Kamal Hathi delivered the opening keynote, where they highlighted our customer momentum, showcased business analytics capabilities including a new feature update to Power BI for Read more

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Let’s Call it a Wrap on the PASS Business Analytics Conference 

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Looking back at this month’s inaugural PASS Business Analytics Conference in Chicago, we can’t believe what an amazing experience it has been! This event included 70+ sessions over the course of two and a half days and was attended by more than 1,100 data professionals, ranging from business analysts and data scientists, to BA/BI practitioners, Read more

Day 3: PASS Business Analytics Conference, Analytics in Action 

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It’s the final day of the PASS Business Analytics Conference. It’s been a valuable opportunity to learn from other industry leaders, partners and customers, all of whom have great ideas and insight on what the future of analytics looks like. As far as what it looks like for Microsoft, we’ve spent the last couple of Read more

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Day 2: PASS Business Analytics Conference, New 3D Mapping Analytics Tool for Excel 

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Today at the PASS Business Analytics Conference, Microsoft technical fellow Amir Netz and partner manager Kamal Hathi took to the stage to demonstrate how people experience insights. As mentioned in yesterday’s blog post, understanding how people experience insights is critical to Microsoft as we look to build and improve our data platform. Today we’re pleased Read more

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Day 1: PASS Business Analytics Conference, The Art of Analytics 

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For the latest and greatest on business intelligence and business analytics, look no further than the PASS Business Analytics Conference, which kicks off today in Chicago. At a time when data is increasingly at the forefront of the industry conversation, this event offers an opportunity to go deep and take a look at how business Read more

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PASS BAC Preview Series: Business Analytics Defined 

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The PASS Business Analytics Conference (PASSBAC) Preview Series continues with more great insights from PASS Board Member, Douglas McDowell, who gives unique perspective on what PASSBAC is and how this conference was developed to address the expanding technical education needs of its business community.  *     *     * FEATURED PASS BOARD MEMBER:  Douglas McDowell, Executive Vice Read more

PASS BAC Preview Series: Self-Service BI from Excel 2013 

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In today’s world of information, the way we experience data can have enormous impact on the meaning of data. The first step in analyzing and exploring data is to decide how to explore it, shape it, format it, and create the visualizations that will give deeper insight into your business. A part of the Microsoft Read more