Here's how Steve Ballmer is building a huge US government data repository
USAFacts, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's latest venture, is an initiative that only a true Excel and SQLServer fan would undertake.
USAFacts, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's latest venture, is an initiative that only a true Excel and SQLServer fan would undertake.
Microsoft is launching the pilot of an online certification program, called the "Microsoft Professional Degree", with a data-science-focused competency.
Microsoft is supporting Apache Spark with its HDInsight, Cortana Intelligence Suite, Power BI and Microsoft R Server software and services.
Microsoft's newest Power BI feature -- publish to web -- is very powerful, but maybe too much so, at least at the moment.
Microsoft is rolling out a free version of its R big-data analytics server for developers alongside the rest of the newly rebranded Revolution Analytics servers.
Microsoft R Servers for Hadoop, Teradata and Linux -- seemingly, the renamed version of Revolution Analytics' commercial versions of its analytics products -- are available to MSDN subscribers.
Microsoft has bought analytics firm Metanautix and plans to integrate its technology with SQL Server and the Cortana Analytics Suite.
Microsoft is bringing together a number of its Azure business-intelligence and machine-learning services, along with Cortana into a single suite. Preview is coming this fall.
Microsoft Research's Project Trinity is now available for public testing in the form of Graph Engine 1.0 public preview.
Microsoft plans to integrate Revolution's R programming language implementation and platform for statistical computing and analytics into SQL Server, Azure HDInsight and Azure Machine Learning.