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The 2016 release of SQL Server promises an amazing benefit to organizations of all sizes with its Stretch Database offering.

In today’s data-rich world, analytics mastery is a business must. Join our March 2016 webinar on BI and analytics industry trends.

We have all seen how pretty Tableau dashboards can be and we want to jump right in, but getting the data in the correct format usually takes longer.

Microsoft continues to show its leadership in advanced analytics with the upcoming release of SQL 2016 featuring R integration.

Microsoft recently held a Best Report Contest, and BlueGranite\'s Jason Thomas won first place! What made this win possible? The new Publish to Web feature.

One of the new features of SQL 2016 aligned to Big Data is Polybase. Polybase is a feature of SQL Server that bridges the gap between SQL and Hadoop.

SQL Server 2016 represents a meaningful step forward in the technology capabilities for integrated delivery of BI, DW, analytics, and data science.

Tableau is a great tool for analysis and reporting. A report has become so popular that we were asked to have a PDF version of this report created for every customer every month. There are thousands of customers and the report takes a non-trivial amount of time to render a pdf. This presented the problem; we needed to run the customer report in an automated fashion without having to redesign or redevelop the report.

By now, most companies understand the need for Business Intelligence, but lack leadership and organization.

2015 was a landmark year for Big Data. Hortonworks had its first year as a publicly traded company, acquired Onyara, and released Hortonworks Data Flow.

The Microsoft Power BI team was fast and furious in 2015, and there are no indications they are slowing down in 2016. If you haven’t checked out Power BI V2 since it was first released last summer, you might want to take another look. Many features have been added and updated since then. Based upon the release schedules since July, it seems there are 3 separate release cycles for Power BI.

Harnessing data can enhance and optimize a company’s workforce by defining goals, measuring successes and pointing to problems.