Specialist Microsoft business intelligence, CRM and performance management solutions provider, IS Partners, will demonstrate its industry and solutions knowledge at this year's Tech.Ed Africa Conference, with no less than six of its industry experts presenting technically insightful sessions.
This is the company's most prominent showing at Microsoft's premier technical education event, which is being hosted in Durban from 17-20 October, and which provides the most comprehensive technical training on the Microsoft suite of products, solutions and services.
The IS Partners team will be headed by David Ives, the company's General Manager for the Business Intelligence, Knowledge Management and Corporate Performance Management units, who is a veteran, with nine years' executive experience at Microsoft SA. He will be joined by company CTO, Ryan Jamieson, and BI specialists Erwin Bisschops, Thavash Govender, Gavin Russell-Rockliff, and Mark Schneeberger.
“We are very excited to be participating at this high-profile event, with some of our top BI minds on hand to share their learnings with conference delegates,” says Ives. “Microsoft has a wealth of tools and solutions to help businesses extract maximum value from their information. This counts for little, however, if those tools are not optimised to extract the information intelligently, efficiently and accurately, and that is what we hope to enable delegates to do.”
The IS Partners sessions cover a broad range of subjects, although the main focus falls on fully utilising the myriad BI features available in SQL Server 2008 R2 and the Office System Suite released this year. These technologies offer capabilities that enable organisations to improve their operational efficiencies and unlock value.
Discussions range from the highly technical to more generic lessons that IS Partners' BI specialists have acquired over their many years in the industry.
For example, topics such as Dashboard Design Best Practices, Top 10 Developer Mistakes That Won't Scale and Unleash the Power of PowerPivot in Your Enterprise address holistic challenges faced by a broad range of audiences at the conference.
By contrast, Enriching Microsoft PowerPivot for Microsoft Excel Applications Using DAX, Business User Productivity via Report Part Galleries in SQL Server Reporting Services, Top 10 Reasons for Using SQL Server Report Builder and Reporting Services and Developing Managed Data-Tier Applications address the more technical nature of the solutions and explore means to do achieve the best from them.
“We encourage delegates to join in on these sessions, or to speak to our specialists on the sidelines of the technical tracks so that they can learn where and how we can help them master the capabilities available in Microsoft's enterprise solutions,” says David.
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Established in 2001, IS Partners is a premier Gold Certified Microsoft solutions provider in southern Africa, specialising in business intelligence, customer relationship management, knowledge management and corporate performance management solutions. More information on IS Partners is available at http://www.ispartners.co.za or on (011) 463 8155.