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Upcoming Microsoft Webcasts

TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT uses Design Patterns to Deliver Agile Business Intelligence Solutions for Microsoft Executives (Level 300)
Find out how to use and extend Microsoft SQL Server and Analysis Services to simplify the storage of KPI and metrics into an Analysis Services catalog that can support intuitive UI agnostic content creation.Presenters: Pablo Trejo Montemayor, Microsoft IT Software Development Engineer, Microsoft Corporation, and Robert Venable, Microsoft IT Principle Program Manager, Microsoft CorporationPablo Trejo is a Software Development Engineer at Microsoft IT Business Intelligence Center of Excellence, where he has worked on various scorecarding projects targeted at Microsoft executives. He moved to the US in 2006 after completing his Bachelor in Electronics Engineering from ITESM in Monterrey, México. If you have questions or feedback, contact us.
MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: SQL Data Services with James Johnson (Level 200)
Microsoft SQL Data Services (SDS) offers highly scalable and Internet-facing distributed database services in the cloud for storing and processing relational queries. In this geekSpeak webcast, James Johnson provides an overview of working with SQL Data Services—what it is, how it works, why you would want to use it, and why it is so cool. James highlights how to get started, shows to interact with the service, and steps through building an application. The geekSpeak webcast series brings you industry experts in a "talk-radio" format hosted by developer evangelists from Microsoft. These experts share their knowledge and experience about a particular developer technology and are ready to answer your questions in real time during the webcast. Your hosts for this geekSpeak are Lynn Langit and Lindsay Rutter. To ask a question in advance of the live webcast, or for post-show resources, be sure to visit the geekSpeak blog.Guest Presenter: James Johnson, President, Inland Empire .NET User’s GroupJames Johnson is the founder and president of the Inland Empire .NET User's Group. He has a great affinity for all things Web, data, user experience, and building community. James' passion is getting people access to experts, experiences, and technologies they never thought they would have access to or could achieve. James is a frequent blogger at www.duringlunch.com, and he is constantly working on the next big thing.View other sessions from: geekSpeak: Join a Discussion Like No Other.If you have questions or feedback, contact us.
Business Intelligence – Improving Performance While Saving Your Organization Money
Taking the opportunity to discuss specific areas that are troubling the department heads and managers.  Exploring concepts on how to the need of agility for new technology while reducing enterprise operation cost.  
SQL Server 2008 Governance - January 15, 2009
SQL Server 2008 GovernanceSQL Server 2008 now allows you to govern resources. Find out why this is so important and what it can do for you and your environment.   Presenter: Joe Yong, Scalability Experts
Business Intelligence – Answering the Challenges IT Departments are Facing Today
SQL Server Specialist Barbara Bruckner will take you through the compelling differences as to why SQL Server offers industry leading applications and the ability to bring legacy core systems to mainstream.  This is an opportunity to understand why SQL Server is in Gartner Leader Quadrant for BI Platforms.
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