Business Intelligence Archives

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.

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.

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...

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...

What Has Changed in the Bot Framework

Using the Bot Framework to create Bots is a great solution for creating code that works across multiple channels with minimal extra effort. Microsoft has continued...

Getting Hands-On with Bots and AI at Microsoft Reactor

I recently took part in the UK Tech Communities (UKCT) Bots and AI Hackathon at Microsoft Reactor in London, which was an opportunity to hear from experts on AI and the Bot Framework and then...

Say hello at the Microsoft Bots & AI Hackathon

If you saw any of Microsoft Ignite 2018 you will know that bots and AI are a big focus for software development. Today we are at Microsoft Reactor in London with fellow developers from across the UK for the 'Bots…

Azure Machine Learning Service General Availability

4th December 2018
BC Comms Team
Azure, Business Intelligence, Feature Announcements, News

Microsoft has announced general availability of the Azure Machine Learning service, enabling developers to build, train and deploy machine learning models. Using Azure Machine Learning, developers can automate model selection and tuning, increase productivity with DevOps for machine learning, and deploy models simply.

Ballard Chalmers joins Microsoft in pledge for responsible AI development

8th November 2018
BC Comms Team
Business Intelligence, News, Social Responsibility

Ballard Chalmers has been a Microsoft Gold Partner since inception in 2005 and today we are pleased to announce that we have teamed up with Microsoft in signing a Partner Pledge for responsible AI development. This reaffirms our commitment to…

Spiceworks State of IT 2019 Report

Spiceworks, an online community where users can collaborate and seek advice from one another, has published its annual State of IT report for 2019. This year it is broken down into four sections: Budgets, Future Workplace Tech, IT Careers and…