A case study I was involved in just got published on Microsoft.com.

Over the past few years a lot of the work I have been involved in has been subject to NDAs, including this work with Microsoft (via my employer). Hence been unable to blog about my work or any of the great features of SQL Server 2014 or the Power BI suite of products.

Over the past year as part of the case study we were given advance access to SQL Server 2014 builds, Power BI and enhanced features of SharePoint. We also had assistance and regular contact with the SQL development team and Power BI guys.

As direct result of my participation I was lucky enough to enjoy a few trips to the USA, including to Seattle, Charlotte (for SQL PASS 2013 conference) and Tampa; making 2013 a very enjoyable and educational year for me 🙂 

Business intelligence (BI) information is only valuable when the right users can discover, analyze, use and share it with others—and all in a timely manner. Current technologies produce data at overwhelming rates, often faster than business users can analyze it, and the bottleneck is frequently the time that it takes to generate useful and impactful reports. At US-based supply chain management giant Jabil, as in many enterprises, data analysis has long been a time-consuming and intensive collaboration between the business groups and IT, creating customized reports whose information, by the time it’s used, is already growing stale. With its new solution built on Microsoft SQL Server 2014 and SQL Server 2014 Power View, Jabil users can create their own reports in minutes from business critical data sources using Microsoft Excel, with IT providing training and guidance—freeing up time to work on strategic projects.

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Full case study @ http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID=710000004223