Chris Webb

Power BI has a lot of amazing functionality for transforming, reshaping and cleaning up data before you load it into your dataset. Learn all about it in this precon!

Learn why Azure Analysis Services is important and how to build BI solutions using it

All you need to know about the “Get Data” functionality in Power BI that is also shared by Power Query and Excel 2016’s “Get & Transform” feature.

Learn how to get the most of your SSAS MD cubes when using Power BI as a front-end

Learn to build Analysis Services models in the cloud

See how to use Power Query to build a detail-level reporting solution

An in-depth session on advanced Power Query functionality and the M language

This session looks at the most significant new functionality to be added to SSAS Multidimensional in recent years: support for the DAX language and Power View.

This session will cover advanced security topics in the Analysis Services Multidimensional model.

This session will introduce the concept of scoped assignments in MDX and show how they can be used to solve various calculation problems.

This session explains what the BI Semantic Model in SQL Server Denali is, how it is related to Analysis Services, and provides a brief introduction to the new Tabular model.

This session will introduce the basic concepts of the new multidimensional calculation language, DAX, and show how to implement several common calculations in it

Learn about the most frequently made Analysis Services design mistakes, the problems they cause, and how to fix them or not make them in the first place