Analysis of Big Data for Financial Services Institutions

In this blog post, we will look at analysis of stock prices and dividends by industry. This task is important to all participants of Stock Market including individual retail investors, institutional investors such as mutual funds, banks, insurance companies and hedge funds, and publicly traded corporations trading in their own shares. In this demo, team … Continue reading Analysis of Big Data for Financial Services Institutions

Aggregating Big Data with HDInsight (Hadoop) on Azure

When we a talking about Big Data we may mean huge amounts of data (high Volume), data in any format (high Variety), and streaming data (appearing with high Velocity). Microsoft provides solutions for all of these “3V” tasks under unified monitoring, management and security, as well as unified data movement technologies. These workloads are supported correspondingly by … Continue reading Aggregating Big Data with HDInsight (Hadoop) on Azure

Oil and Gas Analytics with Power View for SharePoint

Oil and Gas industry requires highest quality of decision-making based on correct and intuitive data. The industry becomes more innovative and requires faster usage of new production methods paying attention to eliminate risks at the same time. Microsoft Business Intelligence provides tools to analyze historical data in intuitive and interactive way. In this demo, team … Continue reading Oil and Gas Analytics with Power View for SharePoint

Microsoft Customer Analytics Solution for Banking

Understanding customers is the foundation to a sustainable competitive advantage in banking. Such problems as customer churn are very difficult to mitigate and much better just to prevent these events using analysis of customer behavior and preferences. To make it possible it is necessary to extract more value from internal and external data sources, and … Continue reading Microsoft Customer Analytics Solution for Banking

Banking Future Vision

Please take a look at following videos which reflect current vision of Microsoft on future banking.

Analysis of population, GDP, HIV deaths, and number of mobile phones in Africa

In this video Marc Reguera walks you through some stunning visualizations that depict important information about progress in Africa by examining a number of factors from each nation, such as population, GDP, HIV deaths, and number of mobile phones. He interacts with these visualization by simply touching the screen of the stunning piece of hardware … Continue reading Analysis of population, GDP, HIV deaths, and number of mobile phones in Africa

Retail Analytics with Power View

In the following demonstration you can see example of retail analytics. Reports in the demo created with Power View, which is a new tool in Microsoft BI. In the demo there is analysis of sales promotions, customer demographics, sales channels, retail stores, products and sales performance. These reports can be created in Excel 2013 based … Continue reading Retail Analytics with Power View

US Economy Analysis with iPad

In the following demonstration Tyler Chessman shows example of US Economy Dashboards and how to use the Microsoft BI Platform with Tablet devices like the iPad.