Welcome to the Houston Area SQL Server Users Group

NEW SCHEDULE for 2013! HASSUG is combining with Houston BI User Group and will continue meetings on the second Tuesday of every month during an expanded "lunch" time. The joint group meets at the Microsoft Houston Office. Our normal room is Suite #350 Discovery, but check the visual display when you arrive to confirm.

The general schedule for each meeting will be:

11:30-11:40 – Announcements

11:40-12:45 – General presentation (Topic 1)

12:45-1:15 – Lunch\Networking – Raffle #1

1:15-2:20 – BI themed presentation (Topic 2)

2:20-2:30 – Recap Announcements – Raffle #2

***MEETING LOCATION ADDRESS***

One Briar Lake Plaza
2000 W. Sam Houston Pkwy. S. #350
Houston, TX 77042

If you can't join in person, we offer LiveMeeting on a best effort basis. We no longer have a dial-in number for audio, please plan to use your computer audio.

PASS Summit – October 15-18, 2013

Planning to attend the PASS Summit in Charlotte, NC, in October? Register using the special discount code for our chapter, SUM771CH, and save $150 off your registration fee while earning $50 for our chapter!

The “fine print”:

· The discount code cannot be used retroactively under any circumstance

· This discount code cannot be combined with any other PASS Summit 2013 discount code

Next Meeting: Tue, Feb 12 2013

HASSUG Monthly Meeting - February 12, 2013

Language: English
Event Type: In-Person & Online
Online Meeting URL: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=HASSUG_FEB2013&role=attend
RSVPURL: None

Monthly Meeting of the Houston Area SQL Server User Group & Houston BI User Group

When

iCal
UTC : Tue, Feb 12 2013 17:30 - 20:30
Event Time : Tue, Feb 12 2013 11:30 - 14:30 (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
Your Local Time: Tue, Feb 12 2013 17:30 - 20:30

Where

2000 W. Sam Houston Pkwy S. #350
Houston, Texas

Direction: None

Featured Presentation

Introduction to Microsoft's Master Data Services (MDS)

Speaker: James Serra, BI/Data Warehouse/MDM Architect Serra Consulting Services

Summary: Companies struggle with consolidating the same set of data from multiple systems to accurately report on critical business information. For example, having customer lists in multiple systems that often have the same customer in more than one list, sometimes with a different spelling. Master Data Services is bundled with SQL Server 2012 to help resolve many of the Master Data Management issues that companies are faced with when integrating data. In this session, James will show an overview of Master Data Services 2012, including the out of the box Web UI, the highly developed Excel Add-in, and how to get started with loading MDS with your data.

About James: James Serra is an independent consulting with the title of Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse/Master Data Management Architect and has over 25 years of IT experience. Starting out as a software developer, he then served as a DBA for 12 years and for the past seven years has been working extensively with BI using the SQL Server BI stack (Integration Services, Analysis Services, and Reporting Services). James is a noted speaker, blogger, and contributing writer for SQL Server Pro magazine.

Usage Monitoring for BI Components

Speaker: Tyler Chessman, Technology Specialist Microsoft

Summary: PerformancePoint Services, Excel Services, PowerPivot, Reporting Services, and Power View. All of these tools have different and sometimes difficult to interpret logging mechanisms. In this talk, we'll walk through the different options for usage monitoring of these key "front-end" BI components. We'll also look at a custom dashboard that ties corporate-wide BI usage into a single, unified view.

About Tyler: Tyler is a Technology Specialist with Microsoft helping customers adopt and implement BI solutions and he is the long-time Microsoft liaison to HASSUG and founder of the Houston BI User Group. Tyler is a frequent contributor to SQL Server Magazine. In 2011, he published Understanding the United States Debt utilizing his BI skills to address one of today’s hot topics (http://www.understandingtheusdebt.com).

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