Thanks to everyone who participated in one of the many focus groups that Microsoft conducted at PASS Summit 2012.
Focus Groups schedule, Rooms 304-304:
| Focus Groups |
Description |
Length |
Contact |
Participation Criteria |
BI on Big Data
Wed, Nov 7
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Room 304 |
Learn and provide feedback on the latest innovations in BI on Big Data & help shape future priorities. |
90 min |
Guoping Ma |
15 participants who are Business Intelligence professionals with hands-on experience in deep data analytics, including and moving beyond traditional BI. Participants must have some experience working with at least one of the following: text analytics, forecasting, sequence analysis, or clustering analysis. |
Mobile BI: Taking Business Intelligence With You
Fri, Nov 9
10:30am - 12:00pm
Room 305 |
Seek feedback and validation on the Mobile BI experience. |
90 min |
Bronwyn McNutt |
10-12 people who are responsible for creating or maintaining reports for executives or upper management. Should have some experience with tablet devices. Ideally familiar with Power View. |
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International Focus Group (Russia)
Wed, Nov 7
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Room 304
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The SQL Server team is continuing to broaden itsefforts in content and community development outside of North America. This focus group targets Russia and Russian speakers living abroad, providing an opportunity to share feedback and direction on how Microsoft targets activities toward these communities. |
90 min |
Yelena House |
12-15 participants, targeting professionals from Russia and any Russian speakers living abroad. |
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International Focus Group (China)
Wed, Nov 7
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Room 305
|
The SQL Server team is continuing to broaden its efforts in content and community development outside of North America. This focus group targets China and Chinese speakers living abroad, providing an opportunity to share feedback and direction on how Microsoft targets activities toward these communities. |
90 min |
Tiffena Kou |
12-15 participants, targeting professionals from China and any Chinese speakers living abroad. |
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Scaling Relational Workloads in the Cloud
Thurs, Nov 8
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Room 304
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Seek feedback/validation on plans for scale-out solutions in the Azure environment. |
90 min |
Lubor Kollar |
12-25 professionals with some hands-on experience in scaling out their database throughput or size in Azure by using “sharding.” A fourth of participants should have at least preproduction experience working with at least 100 SQL Azure shards under a single application. |
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Enterprise Information Management
Wed, Nov 7
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Room 305
|
Seek feedback/validation on the end-to-end IS platform offering, focusing on Self-Service Information Management (SSIM), Data Curation (MDS), and Data Quality Services (DQS). |
90 min |
Lance Olson & Faisal Mohamood |
10 participants with hands-on experience with data cleansing; analyzing data from an external source (such as a DB, Internet, etc); gathering, finding, discovering, and requesting data from other sources to consolidate; or publishing, reviewing, uploading, and processing data from other sources to consolidate. |
HP+Microsoft Joint Technology Solution Development Briefing
Thurs, Nov 8
10:30am - 12:00pm
Room 305
|
This is a secure focus group run by HP. Attendees will need to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) in order to participate. |
90 min |
Mike Gleason |
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HP+Microsoft Joint Technology Solution Development Briefing
Fri, Nov 9
1:00pm - 2:30pm
Room 305
|
This is a secure focus group run by HP. Attendees will need to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) in order to participate. |
90 min |
Mike Gleason |
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