VIRTUAL - Southampton Data Platform and Cloud - 9th November - Hari & Olivier

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Link to the teams meeting
https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19:meeting_Yjc1NjFmZjctZDk1ZC00NzAzLWE0OTktMjA3NGUzYTlkOGI3@thread.v2/0?context=%7B%22Tid%22:%228f5c8fb3-b610-4233-8284-63a7254f4029%22,%22Oid%22:%22e5090dc5-0a93-4cc1-a473-a9c4dc8c18b2%22%7D

Agenda
18:00: Welcome and Intros

18:15: [remote] Hariharan Rajendran - SAP BO to Power BI Migration – Approach & Best Practices

19:30: [in person] Olivier Van Steenlandt - Improving Team Collaboration Using Database Projects and Azure DevOps

20:30: Finish

> Session(s) details

1. Hariharan Rajendran - SAP BO to Power BI Migration – Approach & Best Practices

This session is for Power BI Developers and SAP BO developers and BI architects.
In recent times, Power BI adoption keep increasing across organizations. Most of the organization are already started migrating their BI workloads into Power BI from their legacy BI platforms. I have involved multiple migration projects and most of them are SAP BO to Power BI. This session covers how you should approach the SAP BO migration to Power BI and how you can satisfy the business users by retaining the same functionality and experience in Power BI. Also, I will talk about how you can enhance your solution than legacy platform and some of the workarounds that you need in Power BI to match the SAP BO features. It covers all sort of options to help you to build the migration strategy to move your SAP BO reports to Power BI smoothly.

2. Olivier Van Steenlandt - Improving Team Collaboration Using Database Projects and Azure DevOps

Having source control in place sounds like the default these days. Although, a lot of companies didn't implement source control yet. This session will guide you how to setup source control step by step, using Database Projects and Azure DevOps.

At the beginning of the session, a couple of use cases will be explained why it is important to use source control within your organization (use cases out of personal experiences). Some examples: deployments take a lot of time, change of priorities, urgent bugfixing, fast growing team perhaps...

During the session the ease of use will become clear and multiple ways how to setup source control will be explained step by step.
Do you want to have everything in source control at once or would you like a phased approach, everything is possible if you know how to start. Principles of Git will be explained shortly.

> About speaker(s)

About Hariharan Rajendran:
Hariharan Rajendran is a Microsoft MVP in Data Platform & Microsoft Certified Trainer and Certified Power BI Professional with 12+ years of experience in Database and Business intelligence on both on-premise and cloud platform. He is fully loaded with end-to-end hands-on experience in both Microsoft SQL Server and SAP HANA & Business Objects stack. He is a continuous blogger (www.dataap.org/blog) and provide virtual training (on ad-hoc basis) on Microsoft Azure, Database Administration, PowerBI and database development to worldwide clients/audience. He is an active speaker in Chennai Power BI User Group & Chennai SQL Server User Group and also one of a lead volunteers & speakers in Data Awareness Programme and achieved delivering great community service at www.dataap.org.

About Olivier Van Steenlandt:

Olivier Van Steenlandt is a Business Intelligence Professional who spent most of his early career assisting retail companies to get more value of their data using the Microsoft BI Stack (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, Power BI).

Early 2020, Olivier joined the dataMinds crew as a core member, assisting to organise several events.

Around April 2021, Olivier started a new position as BI Teamlead in another Retail Company to support business growth. Besides the challenge to help the BI Team grow and deliver projects on time, he started to use SSAS & Power BI.

When Olivier is not working there is a high chance that you find him on a football field, studying (BI Related) or playing music (Saxophone / Piano).

> Our sponsor(s)

A massive thanks to our sponsor Spectrum IT. Without them, we would not be able to host this event for free. Spectrum IT kindly provide funding for the room, pizza and a £20 Amazon Voucher for in-person attendees.
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