Boston SharePoint Salon

Where the City on the Hill Gets Its SharePoint Fill

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Big as in data, home as in “out of business.” Because there’s only going to be more data, and people are finally realizing that not only can it be sliced and diced and visualized in formats comprehensible to the business analyst—it needs to be. The questions are: how should it be stored and queried and where should the visible representations of these queries be displayed? Hadoop, Apache’s open source, distributed computing and storage framework based on Google’s MapReduce model is one answer to the first question. Or you could buy a supercomputer, but, those are kind of expensive! And less fun to say!  As for the second question, of course the answer depends on the type of data. As this is a SharePoint-focused Salon, though, I’m going to nominate SharePoint as one potential answer. Why? Well, Microsoft’s new Big Data Solution will put enterprise Hadoop solutions on Azure and Windows Server, including the now available SQL Server Connector, which lets you transfer data between Hadoop and SQL Server.  So, if you plan on upgrading to SQL Server 2012, you’ll be able to access data stored in Hadoop from SharePoint, and do all your slicing and dicing and displaying in PowerPivot and Power View. Presumably. Interesting, no? We think so. If you agree, please join us at Tico (Berklee Street) this Thursday, from 7 to about 9:30 pm. You can RSVP here, or email me! And if you can’t make it, but know someone whom you think should attend, please spread the word!

Big as in data, home as in “out of business.” Because there’s only going to be more data, and people are finally realizing that not only can it be sliced and diced and visualized in formats comprehensible to the business analyst—it needs to be. The questions are: how should it be stored and queried and where should the visible representations of these queries be displayed?

Hadoop, Apache’s open source, distributed computing and storage framework based on Google’s MapReduce model is one answer to the first question. Or you could buy a supercomputer, but, those are kind of expensive! And less fun to say!  As for the second question, of course the answer depends on the type of data. As this is a SharePoint-focused Salon, though, I’m going to nominate SharePoint as one potential answer. Why? Well, Microsoft’s new Big Data Solution will put enterprise Hadoop solutions on Azure and Windows Server, including the now available SQL Server Connector, which lets you transfer data between Hadoop and SQL Server.  So, if you plan on upgrading to SQL Server 2012, you’ll be able to access data stored in Hadoop from SharePoint, and do all your slicing and dicing and displaying in PowerPivot and Power View. Presumably.

Interesting, no? We think so. If you agree, please join us at Tico (Berklee Street) this Thursday, from 7 to about 9:30 pm. You can RSVP here, or email me! And if you can’t make it, but know someone whom you think should attend, please spread the word!

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[Photo credit: Sadie Van Buren] Last night’s Salon was, by I want to say all accounts, a rather smashing success. (Perhaps a smashed success for a few philosophes.) About twenty locals, newbies and visitors braved the seriously odious weather to talk about, among a few many other things, Power View and the revamped BI Stack. Many many thanks to Sean Boon (b | t), from Microsoft’s Power View team, for coming all the way from Providence on a tweet’s notice—your inside expertise was much appreciated!   If you’d like to come to the next Salon, consider this your invitation! It’ll happen sometime in mid-December—stay tuned for specifics!

[Photo credit: Sadie Van Buren]

Last night’s Salon was, by I want to say all accounts, a rather smashing success. (Perhaps a smashed success for a few philosophes.) About twenty locals, newbies and visitors braved the seriously odious weather to talk about, among a few many other things, Power View and the revamped BI Stack. Many many thanks to Sean Boon (b | t), from Microsoft’s Power View team, for coming all the way from Providence on a tweet’s notice—your inside expertise was much appreciated!  

If you’d like to come to the next Salon, consider this your invitation! It’ll happen sometime in mid-December—stay tuned for specifics!

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At the October SharePoint Salon, we’ll be talking Power View and the dataviz trend in general, its impact on database devs and admins, how it may play out in Office 15 and the next version of SharePoint and how many Euros, approximately, it takes to smuggle 20 kilos of guanciale past customs. Cool? Cool.The SS is happening at Eastern Standard, home of the Frobisher. If you want in, invite yourself on Facebook or @ me on Twitter.  See you there!

At the October SharePoint Salon, we’ll be talking Power View and the dataviz trend in general, its impact on database devs and admins, how it may play out in Office 15 and the next version of SharePoint and how many Euros, approximately, it takes to smuggle 20 kilos of guanciale past customs. Cool? Cool.
The SS is happening at Eastern Standard, home of the Frobisher. If you want in, invite yourself on Facebook or @ me on Twitter.  See you there!

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Masterpiece Theatre Presents SharePoint, Brought to You in Part by Mensa and Mountain Dew*

*Unofficially

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Boston SharePoint Salon: A Shared Mobility In SharePoint, we have a potential vehicle for an empowered mobile workforce, but at this stage, both in-house and third-party offerings are underdeveloped. In this, the second Boston SharePoint Salon, we’ll be discussing these offerings and what functionality they do and do not and should and should not provide. We’re also planning to talk about security concerns, development platforms, the possible impacts of Office365 and whatever else comes to mind. In light of the I’m banking on some interesting tangents.

Boston SharePoint Salon: A Shared Mobility

In SharePoint, we have a potential vehicle for an empowered mobile workforce, but at this stage, both in-house and third-party offerings are underdeveloped. In this, the second Boston SharePoint Salon, we’ll be discussing these offerings and what functionality they do and do not and should and should not provide. We’re also planning to talk about security concerns, development platforms, the possible impacts of Office365 and whatever else comes to mind. In light of the I’m banking on some interesting tangents.

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Cloudy with a Chance of SharePoint Suffice it to say, the decision to switch from self-hosted to cloud-based SharePoint is one fraught with smog, if not peril. Having a group discussion about it is something some of us have been kicking around for a while, but now we’ve decided to make it official, and IRL. And by we, I mean the inestimable Sadie Van Buren (b | t ), myself, and my colleague (and future SPSTC speaker) Ben Jones.

Cloudy with a Chance of SharePoint

Suffice it to say, the decision to switch from self-hosted to cloud-based SharePoint is one fraught with smog, if not peril. Having a group discussion about it is something some of us have been kicking around for a while, but now we’ve decided to make it official, and IRL. And by we, I mean the inestimable Sadie Van Buren (b | t ), myself, and my colleague (and future SPSTC speaker) Ben Jones.