Transitioning to a BI Role

Discover, manage, deploy, monitor – rinse and repeat.  In this session we show how Azure Machine Learning can be used to create the right AI model for your challenge and then easily customize it using your development tools while relying on Azure ML to optimize them to run in hardware accelerated environments for the cloud and the edge using FPGAs and Neural Network accelerators.  We then show you how to deploy the model to highly scalable web services and nimble edge applications that Azure can manage and monitor for you.  Finally, we illustrate how you can leverage the model telemetry to retrain and improve your content.

Azure Synapse Analytics is Azure SQL Data Warehouse evolved: a limitless analytics service, that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics into a single service. It gives you the freedom to query data on your terms, using either serverless on-demand or provisioned resources, at scale. Azure Synapse brings these two worlds together with a unified experience to ingest, prepare, manage, and serve data for immediate business intelligence and machine learning needs. This is a huge deck with lots of screenshots so you can see exactly how it works.

The data lake has become extremely popular, but there is still confusion on how it should be used. In this presentation I will cover common big data architectures that use the data lake, the characteristics and benefits of a data lake, and how it works in conjunction with a relational data warehouse. Then I’ll go into details on using Azure Data Lake Store Gen2 as your data lake, and various typical use cases of the data lake. As a bonus I’ll talk about how to organize a data lake and discuss the various products that can be used in a modern data warehouse.

Azure Synapse is the evolution of Azure SQL Data Warehouse, combining big data, data storage and data integration into a single service for end-to-end cloud scale analytics. It provides unlimited analytics with unparalleled speed to gain insights. Azure Synapse brings together enterprise data warehousing and big data analytics to give a unified experience with the advantages of both worlds.

The new Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) is an elastic data warehouse-as-a-service and is a Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) solution for "big data" with true enterprise class features. The SQL DW service is built for data warehouse workloads from a few hundred gigabytes to petabytes of data with truly unique features like disaggregated compute and storage allowing for customers to be able to utilize the service to match their needs. In this presentation, we take an in-depth look at implementing a SQL DW, elastic scale (grow, shrink, and pause), and hybrid data clouds with Hadoop integration via Polybase allowing for a true SQL experience across structured and unstructured data.

Did you know Microsoft provides a Hadoop Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)? It’s called Azure HDInsight and it deploys and provisions managed Apache Hadoop clusters in the cloud, providing a software framework designed to process, analyze, and report on big data with high reliability and availability. HDInsight uses the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) Hadoop distribution that includes many Hadoop components such as HBase, Spark, Storm, Pig, Hive, and Mahout. Join me in this presentation as I talk about what Hadoop is, why deploy to the cloud, and Microsoft’s solution.

This document discusses designing a modern data warehouse in Azure. It provides an overview of traditional vs. self-service data warehouses and their limitations. It also outlines challenges with current data warehouses around timeliness, flexibility, quality and findability. The document then discusses why organizations need a modern data warehouse based on criteria like customer experience, quality assurance and operational efficiency. It covers various approaches to ingesting, storing, preparing, modeling and serving data on Azure. Finally, it discusses architectures like the lambda architecture and common data models.

Azure Synapse Analytics is Azure SQL Data Warehouse evolved: a limitless analytics service, that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics into a single service. It gives you the freedom to query data on your terms, using either serverless on-demand or provisioned resources, at scale. Azure Synapse brings these two worlds together with a unified experience to ingest, prepare, manage, and serve data for immediate business intelligence and machine learning needs. This is a huge deck with lots of screenshots so you can see exactly how it works.

May's RDX Insights Series Presentation focuses on Microsoft's BI products. We begin with an overview of Power BI, SSIS, SSAS and SSRS and how the products integrate with each other. The webinar continues with a detailed discussion on how to use Power BI to capture, model, transform, analyze and visualize key business metrics. We’ll finish with a Power BI demo highlighting some of its most beneficial and interesting features.

An overview of AAS and the slides presented during Azure Bootcamp Day 2018 in the SafeNet offices, downtown Milwaukee, WI.

This document discusses the future of data and the Azure data ecosystem. It highlights that by 2025 there will be 175 zettabytes of data in the world and the average person will have over 5,000 digital interactions per day. It promotes Azure services like Power BI, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory and Azure Machine Learning for extracting value from data through analytics, visualization and machine learning. The document provides overviews of key Azure data and analytics services and how they fit together in an end-to-end data platform for business intelligence, artificial intelligence and continuous intelligence applications.

Cortana Analytics Suite is a fully managed big data and advanced analytics suite that transforms your data into intelligent action. It is comprised of data storage, information management, machine learning, and business intelligence software in a single convenient monthly subscription. This presentation will cover all the products involved, how they work together, and use cases.