Azure BI

After a long wait and a lot of arrangements, I am finally about to leave to Hong Kong for the SSASMaestro training. At this moment I got not that much to tell, mainly because of the NDA. But the slides already shared looks very nice. A lot of stuff I didn’t know but luckily also part I already know :-). After I finished the course I have to look what I can and may tell. -JP

It is been a while since my last blog and of course I got the standard excuses. The two main are: busy with my project/customer and I intended to blog about the upcoming SQL Azure Reporting release, but as you know: it is not released to the beta tester yet. Therefor I revived an old PoC I created two years ago, but was lost during a laptop change: Analysis on tagged customers. Tagging is very Web 2.0 (and should exist in a cloud solution) and how about tagging the customers by the business use

Today there is a lot of talking about the new BI Sematic Model (BISM) released with the next version of SQL Server, codenamed Denali. Chris Webb has written a good blogpost [http://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/pass-summit-day-2/] about the upcoming changes and gave his fair opinion to it. In most I agree with Chris, but I think the introduction of the new version of UDM will be the best option for Microsoft to stay ahead of the competition. The premier reason for me to belief this, is that

There is a shift going it the IT world: more and more applications are moving to the cloud. Recent examples, e.g. Office365, shows that the gap between the on-premise version and the cloud version are rapidly closing. Even the promise of Microsoft to put more and more effort in the development of cloud application: every Microsoft product nowadays is ‘cloud-aware’. The big question is: what about BI and the cloud. One thing I know for sure: it will come. Not completely sure is how, but I have an