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Welcome to BI Roadshow 2010 Calin Tatomir General Manager, Microsoft Romania Calin. Tatomir@microsoft. com 2 2

Welcome to BI Roadshow 2010 Gabriel Nicolaescu Server & Tools Lead, Microsoft Romania Gabriel. Nicolaescu@microsoft. com 3 3

Microsoft Solutions for Business Intelligence 4 4

Overview of the Day Rafal Lukawiecki Strategic Consultant, Project Botticelli Ltd rafal@projectbotticelli. com 5 5

Why Do We Need This Seminar? Business Intelligence has been a top priority IT concern for CEOs for the past 3 years Self-created, personal BI that helps employees perform better is now in major demand Managing consistency of BI across an enterprise is a challenge This seminar will refresh your knowledge of BI’s foundation and it will introduce the significantly extended Microsoft BI platform 6 6

Acknowledgments & Notes This seminar is based on a number of sources including a few dozen of Microsoft-owned presentations, used with permission. Thank you to Chris Dial, Tara Seppa, Aydin Gencler, Bryan Bredehoeft, Marin Bezic, and Donald Farmer with his entire team for all the support. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the opinions and views of Project Botticelli and/or Rafal Lukawiecki. The material presented is not certain and may vary based on several factors. Microsoft makes no warranties, express, implied or statutory, as to the information in this presentation. Portions © 2010 Project Botticelli Ltd & entire material © 2010 Microsoft Corp. Some slides contain quotations from copyrighted materials by other authors, as individually attributed or as already covered by Microsoft Copyright ownerships. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U. S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Project Botticelli Ltd as of the date of this presentation. Because Project Botticelli & Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft and Project Botticelli cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. Project Botticelli makes no warranties, express, implied or statutory, as to the information in this presentation. E&OE. 7 7

Agenda 09: 25 – 10: 40 The Big Picture of Business Intelligence: Goals, Concepts, and the Platform 11: 00 – 12: 15 The Knowledge Worker’s Perspective: Self-Service of BI with Microsoft Power. Pivot and Office 2010 Lunch: 12: 15 – 13: 00 – 14: 15 The IT Perspective: Data Warehousing, Management, and Analytical Structures 14: 35 – 15: 50 The Analyst’s Perspective: Advanced BI with Power. Pivot DAX, Share. Point Dashboards, and SQL Data Mining 15: 50 – 16: 30 Summary and Questions & Answers 8 8

Logistics You have received a paper evaluation form. Please complete it – your feedback is very important to us. Power. Point presentations will be available for download. Link will be emailed to you if you return a completed evaluation form. Q&A session at the end of the day, however, please ask questions at any time you wish. Data Mining and other BI seminars online at www. microsoft. com/technetspotlight 9 9

A Question, Please. . . Who would you identify yourself most closely with? Business Decision Maker BI Consultant Developer Database Expert IT Professional 10 10

© 2010 Microsoft Corporation & Project Botticelli Ltd. All rights reserved. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the opinions and views of Project Botticelli and/or Rafal Lukawiecki. The material presented is not certain and may vary based on several factors. Microsoft makes no warranties, express, implied or statutory, as to the information in this presentation. Portions © 2010 Project Botticelli Ltd & entire material © 2010 Microsoft Corp. Some slides contain quotations from copyrighted materials by other authors, as individually attributed or as already covered by Microsoft Copyright ownerships. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U. S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Project Botticelli Ltd as of the date of this presentation. Because Project Botticelli & Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft and Project Botticelli cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. Project Botticelli makes no warranties, express, implied or statutory, as to the information in this presentation. E&OE. 11 11