Expand your SQLSaturday #287 Madison experience with one of our amazing pre-conference sessions!

Session Information

Having the freedom and ability to easily explore and provide reporting and valuable insights within an organization has been a challenge for years. Well no more! The time to unlock and open up the doors to information is now. In this all-day pre-conference you will see that with the use of Excel you can be empowered to easily load and relate data, build business logic and calculations, enrich data with additional sources, and build highly visual and compelling reports.

We will explore Excel, Power Query, Power Pivot, Power View, and Power Maps and show you how you can maximize the investment in the tools that Microsoft has provided. By the end of the day you will see how you will no longer be held back to waiting for a report request or being able to not ask the questions you have wanted to, take the next step and see what powers await you with Excel and unleash your data!

About the Instructor

Dan English is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP and the Business Intelligence Practice Manager at Superior Consulting Services in Burnsville, MN. He has been developing with Microsoft technologies since 1996 and has focused on data warehousing and business intelligence since 2004. Dan is co-author of “Visualizing Data with Microsoft Power View”, contributing editor on “Visual Intelligence", and is on the leadership team for the MN Microsoft BI user group. Dan also blogs and tweets at @denglishbi.