Project Crescent is SQL Server Reporting Services' new addition to its reporting tool portfolio. It is an ad-hoc reporting and visual exploration experience for casual and experienced users alike, to collaborate and present data within a SharePoint environment.
In order to help early adopters achieve success and drive knowledge back to the product team as well as to the community, Microsoft's SQL CAT team is offering a one-day deep dive seminar based on our experience using CTP2 and CTP3 of SQL Server "Denali" to create and interact with views of data from tabular models:

• Crescent End-2-End Architecture
• Building Crescent reports based on the Tabular Model
• Building and Deploying a Simple Tabular Model using PowerPivot
• Optimizing a Tabular Model for Crescent
• Developing and/or Importing a Tabular Model using Business Intelligence Development Studio
• Importing and Managing a Tabular Model using SQL Server Management Studio
• Data Analysis Expressions
• Using Direct Query Mode for Real-Time Analysis
• Solving Complex Tabular Modeling Scenarios
• End-to-end Security

 When: October 24, 2011
              8:30am-5pm

Where: Microsoft Technology Center
              200 E. Randolph Dr.
              Suite 200
              Chicago, IL

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