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…
What exactly does Ethical AI (Artificial Intelligence) mean? One point of view was presented by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during his keynote at the developer conference Microsoft Build 2018 on 7 May: "We need to ask ourselves not only what…
For the last four years, Microsoft has held its Future Decoded event in London. The event provides a great insight for where Microsoft sees its future plays coming from. This year it was apparent that Mixed Reality, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning,…
Power BI is changing! It still has the same underlying components, such as Power Query and Power View, but has been enhanced and repackaged, and many additional data sources added. Excel is still present, but there is more emphasis on…
Empowering users with the ability to analyse their own data is a worthy objective in its own right. So is enabling them to do so without having to install complex data analysis software on their own PCs. Letting users manipulate…
Data mining, in its present format, has been part of Microsoft Business Intelligence for about 10 years. Unfortunately, it is one of least discovered and least used features of Microsoft BI. Many companies have heard of, and use, MDX (MultiDimensional…