Welcome to MSBIC! June 2014

MSBIC Who are we ? We are a PASS chapter focused on Business Analytics. Who is PASS ? While it is an acronym for Professional Association for SQL Server, today it is expanding its horizons as a Professional Association to serve the entire spectrum of Data Professionals associated with the Microsoft Data Platform to – Connect , Share and Learn. Who is leading this group? Jeff Johnston – MSBIC President, Practice Lead at Artis Consulting Greg Taylor – MSBIC Director, Practice Director at Slalom Consulting Sri Sridharan – MSBIC Director, MVP , PASS - Board of Director , NTSSUG – Chapter Leader We get a lot of help from Microsoft and our local MS sponsor - Bryan Smith and from PASS Regional Mentor – Ryan Adams. Why ? Business Analytics is changing at a rapid pace – need a forum for collaboration We want to grow and serve the BI community in the North Texas area

MSBIC - Logistics Schedule 2nd Tuesday of EVERY month. Time – 5:00 – 7:00pm Next Meeting: August 12, 2014 (NO MEETING IN JULY) Distribution List Get on the MSBIC distribution list Details on the website http://msbic.sqlpass.org/ Follow us on Twitter: @msbicdfw Spread the word Let your friends in the BI community know about our community! Volunteers Needed! There are a number of opportunities that we need your help on. If you are interested in volunteering please let us know!

Announcements

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Hadoop Series for MSBIC Speaker: Bryan Smith, Microsoft Learn the basics of Hadoop through a combination of demonstration and lecture. Session participants are invited to follow along leveraging emulation environments and Azure-based clusters, the setting up of which we will address in our first session. March – Getting Started August - Processing the Data with Pig April – Understanding the File System September – Leveraging Hadoop through MS BI May – Implementing MapReduce Jobs October – To Be Announced  June – Querying the Data with Hive November - Loading Social Media Data July - On Vacation December – Data Warehouse Integration

Visit www.sqlsaturday.com to register for an event near you! SQL Saturday #305 BA Edition! When: Saturday May 3, 2014 Where: Microsoft – Irving, TX Tracks: Big Data Power BI Information Delivery Visualization & Analytics Call for Volunteers! We need Volunteers in the following areas the day of the event Interested? Email us: msbic@sqlpass.org Sponsor/Exhibitors coordinators Speaker coordinators Room monitors Lunch coordinators Visit www.sqlsaturday.com to register for an event near you!

PASS Elections The PASS Board of Directors has established new eligibility requirements for voting in PASS elections. To receive a ballot for this year’s upcoming Nomination Committee and Board elections, you need to update your PASS membership profile by June 1. Here’s how: Login in to your MyPASS Navigate to MyProfile Update fields Click on ‘save’ Have more than one profile? Login to the profile/s you no longer use and click ‘Deactivate My Profile’ next to the Save button. Need more information or have questions? Contact governance@sqlpass.org

Volunteering with PASS Interested in Volunteering? It’s now easier than ever to volunteer with PASS. Let us know your volunteer preferences, by updating the new “MyVolunteering” section of your MyPASS profile. Outstanding Volunteer Award The Outstanding Volunteer award is intended to honor peer-nominated PASS members who have shown extraordinary dedication and effort in service to the data professional community. Send your nominations to VolunteerRecognition@sqlpass.org along with why you think they should be recognized. PASSion Award The highest of PASS accolades presented yearly to a volunteer who has a made significant contribution to PASS and the global data professional community. Nominations will open several months before the annual PASS Summit. Stay tuned!

PASS Virtual Chapters Listing Check out the sqlpass.org for more information on all the Virtual Chapters: Application Development Azure Big Data Book Readers Business Analytics Business Intelligence Data Architecture Database Administration DBA Fundamentals Excel BI* Healthcare High Availability and Disaster Recovery InMemory Master Data\Data Quality *New Virtual Chapters Oracle SQL Performance Powershell Professional Development Security Virtualization Women in Technology Global Chinese Global Hebrew Global Italian* Global Portuguese Global Russian Global Spanish

Virtual Chapter Meetings – June TOPIC DBA Fundamentals June 3 04:00– 05:00 (UTC -08:00) Rolling Upgrades, The Easy Way presented by Argenis Fernandez Global Hebrew June 8 10:30-11:30 (UTC -08:00) Introduction to SSRS, and SSRS on SSRS presented by Steve Rezhener Data Architecture June 13 05:00-06:00 (UTC -08:00) SQL 2014 Clustered Updatable Columnstore Indexes presented by Brian Mitchell Powershell June 18 09:00-10:00 (UTC -08:00) PowerShell Desired State Configuration presented by Steven Murawski Business Analytics June 19 09:00-10:00 (UTC -08:00) The Accidental Report Designer: Data Visualization Best Practices in SSRS presented by Meagan Longoria

Upcoming SQLSaturday Events Upcoming North America Events Upcoming International Events June 14 #281 Edinburgh (BI) June 14 #316 Christchurch June 17 #321 Cairo June 28 #313 Rheinland July 26 #322 Guatemala June 7 #307 Iowa City June 7 #294 Philadelphia June 14 #288 South Florida June 14 #299 Columbus June 21 #286 Louisville June 21 #303 Rochester July 12 #312 Sacramento July 26 #302 Albany Visit www.sqlsaturday.com to register for an event near you!

Join Us in Seattle, WA November 4-7, 2014

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