Business Intelligence Archives

EASY ANALYTICS AND DATA VISUALISATION PART 2 — WORKING WITH SQL IN AZURE SYNAPSE ANALYTICS

13th January 2021
BC Technical Team
Azure Modern Data Warehouse, Blog, Business Intelligence, Data, How-To, Software Development

In this post, we focus on using SQL in Azure Synapse Analytics and conduct tasks such as creating tables and views, testing the tables, and formatting the data.

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Easy Analytics and Data Visualisation Part 1 — Data Engineering with Power Query

31st December 2020
BC Technical Team
Azure Modern Data Warehouse, Blog, Business Intelligence, Data

In the first post of this Azure Synapse Analytics & Power BI series, we cover data engineering with Power Query using Excel data files.

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Azure Cognitive Search

3rd November 2020
BC Comms Team
Azure, Business Intelligence, Feature Announcements, News

Azure Cognitive Search enables complex AI-driven cloud searches in structured and unstructured data. This enables users to explore and identify relevant content at scale.

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Enterprise-Scale Bespoke Cloud Developments at Ballard Chalmers

29th September 2020
Geoff Ballard
.NET, Azure, Ballard Chalmers, Blog, Business Intelligence, Power Platform, Software Development, SQL Server

In this blog, we take a technical look at two examples of enterprise-scale bespoke cloud developments that we have undertaken.

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Analytics & AI, How to Maximise Your ROI

20th August 2020
BC Comms Team
Azure, Business Intelligence, Data, Infographic, News

Here are some interesting statistics released by Microsoft regarding analytics and AI. Another good reason to be using Azure Synapse Analytics.

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Welcome to new client, BMCG

24th July 2020
BC Comms Team
Ballard Chalmers, Business, Business Intelligence, News

Welcome to our latest new client – BMCG, who we are working with to deliver a Data Management and Business Intelligence system on Azure.

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Ballard Chalmers Achieves Microsoft Gold Partner in Data Analytics

20th August 2019
BC Comms Team
Ballard Chalmers, Business Intelligence, Data, News, SQL Server

We are pleased to tell you that Microsoft has awarded Ballard Chalmers Gold Partnership in Data Analytics. We add this to our Gold competencies in the Data Platform and Application Integration.

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Expansion in IoT as Microsoft Buys Express Logic

Recent news in the world of IoT is that Microsoft has bought Express Logic and is rolling out ThreadX as additional support for IoT devices. It will be free through Azure Sphere, Microsoft’s top operating system in the microcontroller space.

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Ignite World Tour 2019 – Our Take

7th March 2019
BC Technical Team
Azure, Blog, Business, Business Intelligence

On 26-27 February, Microsoft held its London stop on the Ignite World Tour 2019 at the Excel Centre to spread some of the information shared at the annual Ignite conference...

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AI Language Understanding for Real-World Customer Care

One of the real benefits of using Azure for Serverless work is not having to think about scaling for the most part, but there are times when you want to ensure that your costs do not become too high. For example, function calls may be running reports against a SQL Database...

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