Modern Data Platform Map and Video

Last update: Dec 4, 2018 Modern Data Platform Map represents reference organizational layout of most important data pillars and services and corresponding groups of specialists in enterprises. In the following video I make a quick overview of Microsoft Data Platform. I will provide more details in subsequent posts and videos. Please post your questions, suggestions … Continue reading Modern Data Platform Map and Video

Business Intelligence Solutions Decision Tree

In this article we will cover most important Business Intelligence components based on Microsoft Data Platform. One week ago there were announcements on Power BI Premium and Power BI Report Server which will require some clarification, so I decided to create another decision tree describing available Microsoft analytical modeling and visualization tools, and covering Power … Continue reading Business Intelligence Solutions Decision Tree

Webcast: Data warehouse migration to Azure with Hortonworks

Modern EDW should be able to manage both structured and unstructured data to realize full value of data. Security, consistency, and credibility of data is also very important. Data warehouse and big data solutions from Microsoft provide a trusted infrastructure that can handle all types of data, and scale from terabytes to petabytes, with real-time … Continue reading Webcast: Data warehouse migration to Azure with Hortonworks

Empowering Insurance Risk Modeling

In today’s global environment volatile financial markets and natural catastrophes have created a fast-moving risk landscape in both life and nonlife insurance. In addition, many insurers must comply with regulatory regimes to show they can cope with the risks they face. Using Azure's virtually limitless capacity and unlimited infrastructure resources, Insurance organizations can run their … Continue reading Empowering Insurance Risk Modeling

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