{"id":662,"date":"2010-08-24T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/paul\/post\/BI-Immersion-Event-in-Bellevue-WA-in-October!.aspx"},"modified":"2017-04-13T09:53:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T16:53:49","slug":"bi-immersion-event-in-bellevue-wa-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/bi-immersion-event-in-bellevue-wa-in-october\/","title":{"rendered":"BI Immersion Event in Bellevue, WA in October!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nIt's official! We're putting on a 5-day BI Immersion Event<\/strong><\/font> this year in the US! <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWe've just confirmed with our well-known BI expert, Stacia Misner, who will be teaching the class. Stacia teaches all the Microsoft internal BI classes and we're looking forward to sitting in on the class to learn from her too. Check out her bio here<\/a>. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nEven with little to no knowledge of BI, this course will provide you with immediately-usable, production-level knowledge of BI. The course has been designed to take you from installation to configuration to application and integration – for all facets of the BI stack (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, PowerPivot, and SharePoint) – it is meant for anyone who wants to get involved in BI. Our first thought was to create a class for DBAs who want to better understand their environment, but the course content is just as valuable whether you’re new to BI or ready to expand your skills. This class might be the perfect way to advance your career and dig deeper into topics that don’t typically get covered in most BI classes. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nMaybe you accomplish quite a bit with Excel – but how do you get the data there? Quite a few folks use cut-and-paste, or import from a CSV – but of course there's a much better, and much more scalable and robust way using SSIS! Relational data warehousing – with lots of aggregate tables – helps you keep your data organized for Excel or any other type of reporting or analysis tool that you might want to use, but some types of business questions are answered more easily when you move your data from the data warehouse into SSAS cubes. Whether you store data in tables or cubes, you have a variety of options in the BI stack to access and analyze the data, but which is best? Learn how to choose the right tool for the task and how to manage a secure and scalable environment for reporting and analysis. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe course starts out in the 100-200 range on Day 1 but moves into the 200-300 range for the remainder of the week. For each technology in the BI stack, you’ll learn basic usage and design principles, followed by more coverage of configuration, performance tuning, and other management tasks than you’ll find in most BI end-to-end classes. The course will not only bridge the gap in your BI knowledge, but will continue on to take you a lot further. If you’ve always wanted to immerse yourself into BI, figure out the end-to-end story, and go behind-the-scenes to learn how to install, configure, and deploy BI solutions, this is the place to be! <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe class will follow our regular 5-day format with Stacia's best content covering: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n