Introduction to Cortana AnalyticsChris Testa-O’Neill – Principal ConsultantSQL Server MVPMelissa Data MVP

Microsoft SQL Server and Azure Consulting

Who Am I?

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Publications

AUTHOR

• Collection 6233AE: Implementing and Maintaining Business Intelligence in Microsoft SQL Server 2012

• Collection 2778BE: Querying and Modifying Data in Microsoft SQL Server 2012 with Transact-SQL

• Collection 6369AE: Implementing and Maintaining Microsoft SQL Server 2012

• Collection 6370AE: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 R2 Database Development

AUTHOR/TECHNICAL REVIEWER

• Course 20467A: Designing Business Intelligence Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server 2012

TECHNICAL REVIEWER

• Course 10777A: Implementing a Data Warehouse with Microsoft SQL Server 2012

• Course 10778A: Implementing Data Models and Reports with Microsoft SQL Server 2012

TECHNICAL REVIEWER

• Course 20463A: Implementing a Data Warehouse with Microsoft SQL Server 2014

• Course 20466A: Implementing Data Models and Reports with Microsoft SQL Server 2014

• Course 20467B : Designing Business Intelligence Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server 2014

• Course 10977A: Updating Your SQL Server Skills to Microsoft SQL Server 2014

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Thanks to…

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• Stuart Padley• Sonia Carlson• Andrew Fryer• John Hoang• Elisa Flasko• Claire Smyth• James Rowland-Jones• Anand Subbaraj

Agenda

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• What is Cortana Analytics• The Business Story• Example Use Case• The Technology Landscape• Azure Data Factory• Azure SQL Data Warehouse• Machin Learning• Power BI• Cortana• Where next?

What is Cortana Analytics

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The Business Story

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Example Use Case

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The Technology Landscape

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Information Management – Azure Data Factory

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• Ingest cloud and on prem data

• Transform and analyse

• Publish and Consume

• Monitor and Manage

Big Data Stores – Azure SQL Data Warehouse

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• Petabyte Scale with MPP

• Scale compute and storage

• Polybase support

• Use TSQL with relational and non relational

Machine Learning and Analytics

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• Predictive Modelling

• ML Studio for design and deploy

• R and Python support

• Shared experiments with workbooks

Dashboard and Visualisations – Power BI

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• Rich visualisations

• Digital Dashboards

• Suite of technologies

Personal Digital Assistant - Cortana

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Personal Digital Assistant - Cortana

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Where next?

Microsoft SQL Server and Azure Consulting

• Get Guest Access

https://studio.azureml.net/?selectAccess=true&o=1

OR

• Obtain Azure credits

• Do the labs in the next slide

Summary

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• A suite of technologies

• Choose the tech to meet the need

• Fulfils a range of use cases

• Scales with demand