PASS Business Analytics Virtual Chapter Website: Chapter Leader: Melissa Demcsak Meetings: Thursdays, 1-2 times per month at 12pm EST. 1

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PASS Virtual Chapters Listing 3 Check out the sqlpass.org for more information on all the Virtual Chapters including: Application Development Azure Big Data Book Readers Business Analytics Business Intelligence Data Architecture DBA DBA Fundamentals Healthcare Master Data\Data Quality Performance Oracle Powershell Professional Development Security Virtualization Women in Technology Virtual PASS Portuguese Global Chinese Global Spanish Global Russian

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PASS Summit 2014 Seattle, WA November 4-7 8

Andrew Brust 9 Andrew J. Brust, Founder & CEO Blue Badge Insights This interview style meeting will provide you with Andrew Brust’s insights on the current state of Business Analytics. About Andrew: Andrew J. Brust is founder and CEO of Blue Badge Insights and writes a blog for ZDNet called "Big on Data” ( Blue Badge Insights provides strategy and advisory services to Microsoft customers and partners. The company grew out of Andrew's background in application software development, dating back to 1985, and his industry expertise in Microsoft technologies including.NET, SQL Server, and Analysis Services. Andrew, who serves as a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP, is co-author of "Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2012" (Microsoft Press), is conference co- chair of Visual Studio Live!, and writes Visual Studio Magazine's "Redmond Review" column. He is also an advisor to NYTECH, the New York Technology Council.

Brust on Business Analytics Agenda 10 PASS Summit 2013 Highlights SQL Server 2014 CTP 2 Hekaton Power BI HDInsight/Hortonworks Insights on Big Data

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PASS Summit Highlights 13 Reflections on the conference… SQL Server 2014 CTP2 Hekaton SQL Server Team Blog as a resource minsider/

PowerBI Excel 2013 Office 365 (Preview) Power Query Power Map Q&A (Natural Query) 14

HDInsight 15

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Upcoming Virtual Chapter Meetings Visit to register for an event near you! Thursday, November 7 12pm EDT Power BI Self-Service Information Management and Data Stewardship Business intelligence tools continue to improve, letting users shorten their time to insight and take that insight to more devices in more places. But this evolution of BI doesn’t change one fundamental fact of information management: You can’t gain insight from data you can’t access. In this session, Matthew Roche and Ofer Ashkenazi will introduce the role of the data steward and the self-service information management capabilities included in Power Query and Power BI for Office 365, focusing on how Power BI empowers business users to add value to the organization. Matthew Roche, Senior Program Manager on the SQL Server product team Ofer Ashkenazi, Senior Product Planner with the Data Platform Group (Information Services).

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