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There’s a handy video on YouTube for those working with Microsoft Power BI. Video description is, “Microsoft Azure Analysis Services and SQL Server Analysis Services enable you to build comprehensive, enterprise-scale analytic solutions that deliver actionable insights through familiar data visualization tools such as Microsoft…

It’s Friday, which means it’s Azure Friday! To stay up to date on the latest Azure happenings, join Scott Hanselman each week as he engages one-on-one with the engineers who build the services that power Microsoft Azure. The latest webisode Introducing Azure Cosmos DB is…

Societe Generale is one of the largest financial services groups in Europe and a Globally Systemically Important Financial Institution (GSIFI) i.e. it is classed as ‘too big to fail.’ In his article “Fintech: learn fast or fail fast, Aymeril Hoang, Head of Innovation at Societe…

In March Microsoft unveiled a Blueprint reinforcing its cloud security principles, reducing the time it takes for public sector organisations to get up and running in Microsoft Azure being slashed from weeks to just hours. Customers who join Microsoft’s cloud service can do so safe…

Ninety percent of the Fortune 500 now uses Azure says Microsoft. With a growing number of cloud provider options, it can be difficult to understand their differences and the unique benefits of each. Find out here why Azure the most complete cloud solution and why…

The Microsoft Data Insights Summit concluded yesterday. If you missed a keynote or session you can catch up on demand via the YouTube Microsoft Power BI Community. These sessions are good if you want insights on how to build a data culture at your organisation.…

The .NET engineering team has been working on .NET Core 2.0 Preview 2 which is available now. In the latest episode of ASP.NET Community Standup, Scott Hanselman, Microsoft Principal Community Architect for Web Platform and Tools, says, “[Release to Market] is the plan to be…

Research by Dimension Data and 451 Research finds, “Hybrid IT is becoming the norm. Over the next two years, SaaS, IaaS, on-premise & hosted cloud are expected to increase the share of where organisations run their applications and workloads, from 63% to 68%. The move…