How does Microsoft support data update in its new column-store technology?
Microsoft announced a new column-store database technology in its SQL Server 2012 and claimed to add update ability to it in the next release. Basically, a traditional database writes data one row at a...
View ArticleNew Ways to Visualize Your Data in Excel 2013
New Ways to Visualize Your Data Three new charting tools in 2013 Microsoft Excel: Histogram Treemap Streamgraph
View ArticlePowerPoint 2013 Visualization
In the hierarchy of knowledge, data moves to wisdom in three steps: From data to information by applying context From information to knowledge through analysis From knowledge to wisdom through action...
View ArticleBI and Vodka
How Microsoft helped this bar figure out that vodka was costing it a fortune For one Seattle bar that tried out an early version of Microsoft’s Power BI cloud business intelligence service, the...
View ArticleMicrosoft Buying Revolution Analytics For Deeper Data Analysis
I do not know whether this is a good news or not. R has been one of my favorite tools in BI and data analytics. I like the open source development environment of R. It has made R to be one of the most...
View ArticleGartner 2015 Magic Quadrant
It is quite interesting how Microsoft jumps from a niche player to a visionary after it purchased Revolution Analytics, a company of R. Reference: Gartner 2015 Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics...
View ArticleMagic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide
The ranking is AWS, Microsoft, and others. Reference: Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide
View ArticleApple co-founder Steve Wozniak explains the biggest difference between Steve...
You really need the vision like Steve Jobs had, but the vision doesn’t go anywhere if you try to jump in and build products before they are cost effective for what they do, return on investment is...
View ArticleThis startup created an algorithm that detects nude images online
Last month, Microsoft developed a fun algorithm at How-old.net that guessed the age of the people in a given photo. Now, one Seattle startup is doing something similar — with a little less clothing....
View ArticleInfo Graphics with Excel
It’s interesting that some people come up new ideas of creating infographics in Excel. I wonder how data navigation is going to be supported!? Reference: Info Graphics with Excel
View ArticleMore Free Microsoft eBooks
Here is another listing of free Microsoft eBooks. Reference: I’m giving away MILLIONS of FREE Microsoft eBooks again! Including: Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Office 2013, Office 365,...
View ArticleGartner positions Microsoft as a leader in the Magic Quadrant for Operational...
This is the new Gartner magic quadrant for operational (transnational, OLTP) DBMS (Oct., 2015). It appears that Microsoft’s hard work and licensing structure pay off to beat Oracle. I was hoping to see...
View ArticleMicrosoft finally gives OneDrive for Business customers unlimited storage
Unlimited OneDrive for Business is limited to customers with the following subscriptions: Office 365 Enterprise E3, E4, E5 Office 365 Government E3, E4, E5 Office 365 Education OneDrive for Business...
View ArticleFormer Microsoft CEO Launches New Tool For Finding Government Data
This Tax Day, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer launched a new tool designed to make government spending and revenue more accessible to the average citizen. The website — USAFacts.org — has been slow...
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