May Free Training Schedule

This month, our experts will be covering a variety of topics from assembling a data team to consumption based BI and more. Notice something different? Based on feedback we've received, we made a few changes to our training sessions to make them more efficient and increase value. Our webinar format has been modified to allow for more question and answer time during each webinar. We have also reduced the number of session to allow our experts more time to develop their sessions and come up with new topics.

May's Free Training Webinars

Adam Jorgensen, MVP, MBA, MCITP: BI, has over a decade of experience leading organizations around the world in developing and implementing enterprise solutions. His passion is finding new and innovative avenues for clients and the community to embrace business intelligence and lower barriers to implementation. Adam is also very involved in the community as a featured author on SQLServerCentral, SQLShare, as well as a regular contributor to the SQLPASS Virtual User Groups for Business Intelligence and other organizations. 

Adam Jorgensen and Mike Davis are teaming up to walk you through how to build a data team in their session, "Building Your Data Team's Make Up and Culture." Building a team of data professional entails more than just technical skills. The culture, attitude, and growth of your team is vital in having a strong team. In this session you will learn how to plan for the best data team you can build. 

May 5, 2015 11:00 AM EST

Steve Hughes is a BI Architect at Pragmatic Works who works with Microsoft’s SQL Server stack and Windows Azure to deliver data and business intelligence solutions. He’s passionate about using data effectively and helping customers understand that data is valuable and profitable.

In his session, "Consumption Based BI Architecture," Steve Hughes is discussing the shift towards non-relational data sources for use with analytics. Consumption architecture is built on the idea that no matter the structure or type of data that is available it must be consumable. During this session, we will look at an architecture that is focused on the consumers of the data as opposed to the systems that produce it. This does not displace any of the technologies currently used in business intelligence today, but embraces them by making them available to be consumed by end users, data analysts, and data scientists. 

May 12, 2015 11:00 AM EST

Jason Strate is Solution Architect with Pragmatic Works. He has been working with SQL Server for more fifteen years. His experiences include architecting and implementing transactional and data warehousing solutions on Microsoft Data Platform technologies, including SQL Server and Parallel Data Warehouse. A recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for SQL Server since 2009, he also has achieved the Microsoft Certified Master for SQL Server certification.

Given enough time, any solution is bound to reach its limit or encounter a failure. The question that every organization needs to understand is whether the solution will successfully recover after the issue and if recovers in a timely manner.  In his webinar, "Availability and Continuity - Planning to Fail or Failing to Plan," Jason will talk about availability and continuity planning and options that your team can use to start practicing your recoveries and planning to fail.

May 19, 2015 11:00 AM EST

Devin Knight is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP, Training Director at Pragmatic Works and author of six SQL Server books. He speaks at conferences like PASS Summit, PASS Business Analytics Conference, SQLSaturdays and Code Camps and is also a contributing member to the PASS Business Intelligence Virtual Chapter. 

In the ever changing world of data it has become incredibly difficult to keep up with the skills needed to stay relevant. Whether you’re a power user creating self service solutions or a developer creating an enterprise solution they all require some form of training. Join Devin in his session, "Training and Skills Needs of the Next Generation Data Professional," and learn how to properly plan a scalable solution for training that fits your entire company’s needs.

May 26, 2015 11:00 AM EST

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