1. PASS BA Virtual Chapter Presents: “ Looking Through the Windshield: Creating Forward-looking Dashboards and KPIs ” August 21, 2014 Email - passbavc@sqlpass.orgpassbavc@sqlpass.org

2. PASS Business Analytics Updates Chapter Leader – Dan English Dan is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP, author, on the leadership team for the MN Microsoft BI User Group, and is the Business Intelligence Practice Manager at Superior Consulting Services in MN. Chapter Co-Lead – Paras Doshi Paras is a consultant at SolidQ, Microsoft Community Contributor awardee and Blogger. He is passionate about helping businesses extract valuable insights from data. PASS Business Analytics Virtual Chapter http://tinyurl.com/linkedinpassbavc https://twitter.com/passbavc Twitter handle @passbavc http://www.youtube.com/user/PASSBAVC YouTube Channel

3. August 21 - Looking Through the Windshield: Creating Forward-looking Dashboards and KPIs Abstract It is dangerous to drive forward while looking through the rear window. The same is true about guiding our organizations forward while looking only at the past. Yet, much of our business intelligence shows only the past. This session explores simple techniques to make our dashboards and KPIs visualize what is likely in the future. No fancy predictive algorithms are necessary–just an appreciation of what we know about our organization’s future and a recognition of past trends that are likely to continue. Presenter – Brian Larson (http://www.teamscs.com) Brian Larson is the Chief Technology Officer at Superior Consulting Services and has presented at SQL Server Connections, the PASS Summit and the Microsoft BI Conference. As a consultant to Microsoft, Brian contributed to the original code base of Reporting Services. Brian is the author of “Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Reporting Service: 4th Edition” and “Delivering Business Intelligence with SQL Server 2012: 3rd Edition” as well as co- author of “Visualizing Data with Microsoft Power View.”

4. Sept 18 – Insider's Introduction to Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (AzureML) Abstract Microsoft has introduced a new technology for developing analytics applications in the cloud. The presenter has an insider's perspective, having actively provided feedback to the Microsoft team which has been developing this technology over the past 2 years. This session will 1) provide an introduction to the Azure technology including licensing, 2) provide demos of using R version 3 with AzureML, and 3) provide best practices for developing applications with Azure Machine Learning. Presenter – Mark Tabladillo (@marktabnet http://marktab.net) Mark Tabladillo is a Microsoft MVP and SAS expert. He helps teams become more confident in making actionable business decisions through the use of data mining and analytics. Mark provides training and consulting for companies in the US and around the world. He also teaches part-time with the University of Phoenix. He tweets @marktabnet and blogs at http://marktab.net.

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7. 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

8. Virtual Chapter Meetings – August VIRTUAL CHAPTERMEETINGTOPIC Global RussianAug 20 15:00-16:30 (UTC +03:00)SSIS - Повышение производительности обработки потоков данных Global FrenchAug 21 20:00-21:00 RST (UTC +01:00)Power BI Hybride avec la Passerelle de Gestion de Données Presented by Jean-Pierre Riehl Business AnalyticsAug 21 12:00-13:00 CDT (UTC -05:00)Looking Through the Windshield: Creating forward-looking Dashboards and KPI’s Presented by Brian Larson Business IntelligenceAug 27 12:00-13:00 GMT (UTC-00:00)Intro to R Presented by Stephanie Locke Global SpanishAug 27 12:00-13:00 (UTC-05:00) Visualizaci ón de Big Data Con Power View Presented by Eduardo Castro

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