Do you want your employees to make great, insightful, and effective business decisions all by themselves without overloading the IT department with endless requests for even more reports and questionable direct access to your secure database servers? Would you like to be in control of the tools users use to help themselves to your organizational intelligence? Should the fruit of their work empower their entire teams providing accurate and timely knowledge? In short: are you ready for the pivotal change to the way we analyse information that will change every business for the decade to come like Excel has done a decade ago?

Microsoft has just released a new wave of incredibly innovative and unmatched analytical tools centred around PowerPivot and SQL Server 2008 R2, SharePoint 2010, and Office 2010. It has never been possible to so effortlessly extract meaning from hundreds of millions of rows of data all from within Excel. It has never been as easy to create PerformancePoint KPIs, scorecards, and dashboards, or to collaboratively edit Excel documents in several types of browsers. Hardly any other software vendor offers you a way to create rich, OLAP-style analytical expressions for columnar data like Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) do. And almost no one else enables you to manage self-service business intelligence using comprehensive and visually attractive tools like the server activity bubble charts. Building on the long-standing experience of SQL Analysis Services and SharePoint, the newest technologies scale wonderfully well to meet the needs of even the biggest data centres you may run.

This TechEd 2010 pre-conference seminar gives you a truly unique one-day opportunity to get up-to-speed on all of this and on more, like Master Data Services or magic-like Data Mining technologies of SQL Server 2008 R2. We will even manage to refresh your fundamental knowledge of some of the basic concepts of BI if you have been away from it for a while. Best of all, we will spend most of our time showing you all the new technologies in a series of compelling 26 product demos grouped into 13 completely-live demo blocks while using PowerPoint slides only when it makes sense, like when discussing key BI concepts.