Marco Russo

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Marco Russo is a consultant and trainer in Business Intelligence and software development, recently certified as SSAS Maestro.

He has particular competence and experience of BI solutions in sectors like financial services (including complex OLAP designs in banking area), manufacturing and commercial distribution.

Marco wrote "The many-to-many revolution" about multidimensional modeling, is one of the authors of the SQLBI Methodology and of the books "Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services: The BISM Tabular Model", "Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel 2010: Give Your Data Meaning", Expert Cube Development with SSAS Multidimensional Models" and "Programming Microsoft LINQ in .NET 4".

He has been a speaker at previously editions of SQLBits, SQLRally Nordic, PASS Summit and Microsoft TechEd.

Sessions

Analysis Services Advanced Best Practices
This dense hour of presentation will cover design techniques to leverage cube features that also consider possible maintenance of the database structure over time.
BISM Introduction
Introduce the features of BISM (BI Semantic Model), the new engine that will be available in Analysis Services "Denali".
Vertipaq vs OLAP: Change Your Data Modeling Approach
In this session we will introduce the new modeling capabilities of Vertipaq, showing how the same scenarios can be modeled in both Multidimensional (MOLAP) and Tabular (Vertipaq), looking at how to enable your data warehouse to support both.
Create a Data Model in BISM Tabular
In this session you will see how to create a BISM Tabular data model from scratch, providing the required metadata in order to improve user experience navigating the data model by using client tools like Excel PivotTable and Power View.
Modern Data Warehousing Strategy
This session will discuss what a modern strategy for data warehousing can be in this era, considering how the use of technologies like PowerPivot or Analysis Services Tabular affect the way you should model your data.
DAX Patterns
Learn ready-to-use DAX patterns improving development speed of Power Pivot solutions. Good also for SSAS Tabular developers.
Power Query in Modern Corporate BI
Explore Power Query features to import data from existing Corporate BI systems.
Power BI Dashboarding
Power BI offers new features for creating dashboards on the cloud. In this session, you will learn how to create data models, display visualizations and synchronize cloud data with on premise data sources.
SSAS Tabular from the Trenches
In this session, we will share some of the hard lessons learned from the first large deployments in Analysis Services Tabular.
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