This month we are going to be looking more at the BI side of things. We have Reza Rad coming to share with us his knowledge on Microsoft Power BI. 

We are going to have a look at what you can do with Microsoft Power BI.  Power BI now comes with bunch of new tools and features: Power BI Desktop, the editor for Power BI solution, integrates Power Query for data transformation, Power Pivot for modeling, and Power View for data visualization. Power BI also has Android, Apple and Windows apps. The Power BI website provides a level of slicing and dicing for data, as well as dashboards features.

In this session Reza is going to walk us through several live demos on how to get the most out of Power BI in real world scenarios. We will investigate how to build a Power BI report and dashboard on top of a transactional database. We will also look at Custom Visuals, and how to use them in a solution.

Presenter:

Reza Rad is an Author, Trainer, Speaker and DW/BI Consultant atRADACAD. He has a BSc in Computer Engineering and has more than 15 years’ experience in databases, programming and development mostly on Microsoft technologies. He has been aMicrosoft MVP in SQL Server for the last six years.

His technical articles on MSBI and other topics can be found on his blog at https://www.radacad.com/blog. He has written bookson MS SQL BI and has more in the pipeline.   He is also an active member on online technical forums such as MSDN and Experts-Exchange, and is a moderator of MSDN SQL Server forums, and is a MCP, MCSE and MCITP of BI.  He is an International Speakerin SQL Saturday and SQL users groups and conferences like TechEd, SQL PASS Rally, PASS BA Conference, SQLBits, and PASS Summit. He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer.

It will be a casual session and there will be plenty of opportunity for Q&A.

A big ‘Thank You’ goes out to Industry Connect for assistance organising and sponsoring the Meetup venue.