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Microsoft Business Intelligence PASS keynote: Five minutes to sign up; five minutes to WOW! 

See how you can get real-time interactive visualizations of customer data, as Microsoft Corporate Vice President James Phillips demonstrates exciting new capabilities available with Power BI and Microsoft’s powerful data platform, including SQL Server, SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), Datazen, and Azure SQL Database.
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Foundation Session: Developing Modern Applications on Azure 

Heads-up! On October 28, there will be a session at this year’s PASS Summit presenting the new ways Azure SQL Database can be used alongside DocumentDB, Azure Search, HDInsight, and Machine Learning to create a sophisticated, powerful application. In collaboration with his team, presenting will be General Manager Shawn Bice.
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Foundation Session with Corporate VP Joseph Sirosh on October 28 at PASS Summit 

New this year to PASS Summit are the ‘Foundation Sessions’ from Microsoft leaders! These will all occur on October 28th. The purpose of this to dive deeper into new and leading technologies that you want to know. From 1:30pm-2:45pm, one of the featured speakers is Corporate Vice President of the Information Management and Machine Learning group, Joseph Sirosh.
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Business Intelligence: Beyond Dashboards and Charts 

The term “business intelligence” (BI) tends to elicit visions of dashboards with red, yellow, and green indicators representing targets met (or not) or perhaps various types of charts and graphs. But the potential of BI can be much more interesting and significant in what it can help organizations accomplish.
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What to expect at PASS Summit 2015, the world’s biggest SQL Server event! 

PASS Summit 2015 is nearly upon us. With less than three weeks until the big event, the SQL Server team caught up with Denise McInerney, PASS VP of Marketing, about the world’s largest gathering of SQL Server and BI professionals. Can you tell us in a few short sentences what PASS Summit 2015 is and why people should be excited to attend this year?
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New webinar – Tackle the top five data challenges with SQL Server 

The previous two blogs (here and here) in this series discussed how to evaluate the cost effectiveness of SQL Server and the Microsoft data platform and leveraging the asset of an expert community. As part of that discussion, experts in the data community identified several factors that contribute to the value of the Microsoft platform.
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2015 PASS Summit Haiku Contest Rules 

Twitter contest time! Need a ticket to PASS Summit 2015? Tell us why you deserve a free pass in 140 characters in the form of a HAIKU. Contest starts Tuesday, 9:00 AM PDT October 6, 2015 and we will announce the winner at 5:00 PM PDT, Friday, October 9, 2015. Read the official rules below.
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Big data needs a big cloud 

Brian Mitchell, Microsoft Senior Business Program Manager, took the stage at Ignite two weeks ago to discuss Planning Your Big Data Architecture on Azure. “Big Data” requires big scale. Mitchell covered how this is accomplished through storage strategies, partitioning, fault tolerance, and the right architecture to scale to the extremes of big data.