Data & BI Summit Day 1 Keynote

The kick-off is by Rose Spitzer (@RoseSpitzer), General Manager of the Power BI User Group.

John Doyle Sr. Director Product marketing

Video: Heathrow Airport showcase

Ben Watt

Park run: Every saturday a 5K run
It started out small but now has 1427 different places and over 34 million people participating!

Amanda Cofsky (@MissAmandaN) Power BI Program Manager

She starts her story with a New York taxi demo and shows some interesting new features to come:

• Incremental refresh (Premium users only)
• Drillthrough with filters and parameters (this will be released in May!)

Q&A explorer

John Doyle enters the stage again and talks about the roadmap for 6-9 months

Some interesting things coming! #PowerBI #DataAnalytics #DataBISummit @pbiusergroup pic.twitter.com/fUBnP4yiAq

— Gavin Clark (@gavinclark66) 24 april 2018

Colin Murphy

Colin starts another set of demos, starting with the Common Data Service for Analytics (CDSA)

Public preview of #PowerBI #CommonDataService coming soon!! #DataBISummit pic.twitter.com/x75t23aeaT

— Joël CREST #DataBISummit (@JoelCrest) 24 april 2018

Show details for table data under the graphs

Show details in #PowerBI reports.. #DataBISummit pic.twitter.com/tBGuGVjWOx

— Wolfgang Strasser (@wstrasser) 24 april 2018

Datapools (preview): Entities from CDS
Datapools are also available as a Power BI connector in Power BI Desktop.
You can add entities from different data sources.
Use case: Combine promotional data with CRM using Power Query online

Drill-throughs will now take all the filters/context from the page you’re on (not just the point you drilled into!), there’s a ‘show details’ feature and data pools (Common Data service for Analytics) is coming soon and going to rock the world of #analytics #DataBISummit pic.twitter.com/KLlQmwqoS2

— Rishi Sapra (@rsaprano) April 24, 2018

MSTechEd Europe Keynote Day 2

We started day 2 with another keynote session from Antoine LeBlond with a focus on Windows 8.Antoine showed some cool demos of what Windows 8 is capable of, including a demo on a tablet and laptop. Features included were Swipe in, semantic (smart) zoom, quick cycling through apps (the old alt+tab).
A new feature for the laptop is that the touchpad on it also has smart touch capabilities! You can also use semantic zoom and swipe in on the touchpad for example!

Another cool thing was taking your work environment on a 32 GB USB-drive and run it on your desktop at home, where a reboot and login with BitLocker showed a secured and protected environment, locked away from the physical hard drives of the desktop. Then suddenly he unplugged the USB-device, you then have 60 seconds to plug it back in to not loose any data. The video he was playing just continued after a flick of a second.. Nicely done!

Further demoing Windows 8 development with Windows Runtime (WinRT).
Multiple monitor support has much improved. You can set different backgrounds or just stretch it over 2 monitors. The taskbar can also be adjusted, e.g. when you drag and drop an application over to the 2nd monitor the shortcut on the taskbar also moves with it.

More sessions later on today on SQL Server and Spatial Data and of course the famous BI Power Hour, can't wait to have seen that one!

MS TechEd NA 2012 - Keynote day 1

Yesterday the Microsoft TechEd North America started with the day 1 Keynote, that is,  if you skip the Pre-Con's that were already given on sunday.

I've followed the live stream of the Keynote and have put some points together, you can watch the whole video here: Keynote day 1. The video starts automatically at 1:29:40 with Satya Nadella.

For myself Amir Netz was amazing with his PowerView demo!

@1:29:40

Satya Nadella - President Server and Tools

• Virtualization

• Workload > sharing of resources

• Powershell > automate anything
• 2400 cmdlets

 @1:46:50

Jeff Woolsey - Principal Program Manager

Windows Server Virtualization

• Server 2012 / HyperV, some numbers:
• 320 logical processors per server
• 4 TB per server
• 64 virtual processors per vm
• 64 TB per virtual disk
• 64 nodes, 4k VM's
• IOMeter: 985.000 I/O per sec from 1 virtual machine

• Network Virtualization 

@1:59:50

Satya Nadella

• Video of introduction of  Windows Server 2012

@2:03:20

Mark Russinovich - Windows Azure

• Infrastructure as a service
• Easy creation of new VM's

@2:16:10

Satya Nadella

• Modern datacenter
• Server 2012 / Azure

• Modern apps (lifecycle)
• Personal
• Social (sharing)
• Intelligent
• Tools (VS2012) 

@2:22:00

Scott Guthrie - Corp. VP  Azure App Platform

• VS 2012: ASP.Net MVC 4 project
• Mobile plug-in for testing
• Very funny part @2:31:00
• Integration with TFS to Azure website
• Automative build and run unit-test, when positive deploy to Azure

@2:32:35

Jason Zander - Corp. VP Visual Studio

• Metro style apps
• VS LigthSwitch
• Odata

• Additional support
• jQuery
• iPad emulator

• Agile development
• System Center closely integrated with VS to debug and adjust problems and switch from developer to IT-pro.
• @2:47:45 demo video of ING Direct Australia

@2:49:15

Satya Nadella

• Big Data

@2:53:20

Amir Netz - SQL Server (Power View demo)

Technical Fellow

• Analyse (sentiment of) tweets to predict movie revenues and needed allocation of theaters
• 12.4 mln tweets of movies
• 1st week sales
• 2nd week sales

• Manage brands (awareness of actors)
• Sentiment of brand
• Effect / impact of events on brands (like oscar nominations)
• Small brands have major effect
• Established brands (Brad Pitt) have small effect

@3:04:00

Satya Nadella

• Summarisation & Conclusion