Data Community Meetup: July 2018

The world of business intelligence and analytics has grown immensely, the number of technologies, methodologies and concepts that are used have multiplied. This month we bring you more concepts and technologies that you would find useful implementing for your organization or clients.

SESSION #1: Build Easy Process Flows combined with Business Intelligence

by Muditha Pelpola
(Consultant - Business Intelligence, Fortude)

Remember "BI for everyone"? You now can building your own applications, combined with process flows and business intelligence all without code. This session will take you through how business analysts, or for that matter any non-coder with some flair for technology can be the champion of their department by providing real value by using easy to use tools such as PowerApps, Flow and Power BI.

SESSION #2: Unlock the Potential of Enterprise Data Assets using Azure Data Catalog

by Nisal Mihiranga
(Tech Lead - Business Intelligence and Analytics, Ayra Analytics)

In the modern day, data can reside anywhere in an organization. It could be in a transactional databases, in a data warehouse or even as big data on the cloud. Azure Data Catalog is a fully manage cloud-based solution for data in organizations which empowers unlocking the various potential of data. This enables users to spend less time looking for data and more time for getting accurate value out of it which is a perfect solution to bridge the gap between data professionals and business users. Let's talk about How Azure Data Catalog can help any enterprise to enrich usage of data assets.