Neal Waterstreet

Presenting at Atlanta Microsoft Business Intelligence Group

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I’m presenting Master Data Management with SQL Server 2016 MDS at the Atlanta Microsoft Business Intelligence Group on Monday, January 30th. Pizza and networking starts at 6:30 and the presentation should start about 7:00. Here is the address:

115 Perimeter Center Place
Atlanta, GA 30346
South Terraces Building
The Auditorium room (first floor)

Here is the abstract:

Organizations that invest in master data management and improving the quality of their informational assets will be best positioned to reap the huge data dividend! Join this presentation to learn how you can manage your master data and reference data with SQL Server Master Data Services (MDS). Learn about the new MDS features in SQL Server 2016.

Data at Dusk – September 28!

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The Atlanta Modern Excel User Group is organizing this Data At Dusk event with three sessions delivered by MVPs. You don’t want to miss these sessions. For this event, please get a ticket at this link on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-at-dusk-tickets-27320208479

Speakers:

Marco Russo, MVP (https://twitter.com/marcorus) (SQLBI)
Consultant, speaker, book writer, mentor. Business Intelligence with Analysis Services, Power BI, and PowerPivot.

Jen Stirrup, MVP (https://twitter.com/jenstirrup)
Jen Stirrup, Microsoft Data Platform MVP, and PASS Director-At-Large, is a well-known Business Intelligence and Data Visualization expert, author, data strategist, and community advocate who has been peer-recognized as one of the top 100 most global influential tweeters on Big Data topics. Jen is a PluralSight author.

Jen has presented in Africa, India, Europe and North America. Some examples: Jen has presented at TechEd North America and Europe, PASS Summit, SQLBits, and SQLSaturday events in Europe and the US. She also delivers the MAPA Azure Architects course worldwide with Microsoft team members. Jen was also featured on the ‘Best of PASS Summit 2015′ DVD. Jen also was awarded PASS’ prestigious PASSion Award in 2012.

Boris Hristov, MVP (https://twitter.com/BorisHristov)
Founder of Presentation Design & Training Agency http://356labs.com | Top Rated International Speaker | Trainer and Author

Session Topics will be announced soon. Stay tuned. Limited Seats. Please get your tickets.

Atlanta Modern Excel – August Meeting

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Topic: Introduction to Power Query

Summary: In this session, I will introduce you to Microsoft’s new self-service ETL tool “Power Query” for Excel.  I will show you, how to source data from various data sources, how you can massage the data and consume the data for your use in the data pipeline.  I will show you how you can discover and mash data from public data sources within Power Query.  If you would like to do ETL quickly without writing SSIS packages, Power Query is the way go. Come and attend this session to learn the new way to acquire and clean your data using “Power Query” in Excel.

Speaker: Damu Venkatesan

When: 6:30PM on Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Where: Microsoft Alpharetta Office, 1125 Sanctuary Pkwy #300, Alpharetta, GA 30009

Atlanta Modern Excel – July Meeting

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Topic: Friends & Foes: What does it mean to be an Excel power User?

Summary: As an Excel Pro, you’ve got lots of friends – all of those people you support with your fast reporting, the accountant down the hall who you showed a pivot table to for the first time, your boss who you introduced to slicers, etc. But as an Excel Pro you also have lots of enemies that you might not even know about (or maybe you do know about them!). This session is all about learning to make new friends as you step up your game with the new “Power” tools in Excel. To everyone else you’ll become much more than “just an Excel user” although deep down in your heart Excel will still be your first love. We’ll “touch on” Power Pivot, Power Query, Power BI, SSAS Tabular, & DAX – this will not be a technical talk.

Speaker: Austin Senseman, Lead Consultant, Ten Thousand Things

When: Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Where: Microsoft Alpharetta Office, 1125 Sanctuary Pkwy #300, Alpharetta, GA 30009