Mobile BI was a hot topic at the PASS Summit 2012 in Seattle. Angel Abundez, Lead Business Intelligence Consultant at DesignMind, has been looking at mobile BI options for Microsoft-based solutions, and talked about many scenarios during his well-attended session.

Here are a few highlights of his talk:

• The importance of Mobile BI
• Mobile BI options
• New challenges presented by mobile devices and form factors
• What makes good Mobile BI
• Lots of great references for follow-up study

There were more than 120 in the audience, providing lots of insightful questions and additional pointers as well.  Feedback has been excellent, and it seemed like everyone gained valuable knowledge.  Connect. Share. Learn – PASS‘s motto.  Well done!

In his SQLSaturday Silicon Valley 2012 keynote, Ross Mistry highlights new performance-enhancing features in SQL Server 2012. In this video, Ross discusses the new ColumnStore Indexes, FileStream, AlwaysOn Availability Groups, and other new and improved features.

There are some great stats in this video, citing the tremendous data warehouse query performance gains that can be achieved using ColumnStore Indexes (up to 100X), available directly within the database engine.

If you haven’t had a chance to review the SQL Server 2012 feature set, this video will give you an idea of enhancements you should be digging into.

SQL Saturday Silicon Valley is coming up soon.

SQL Saturday is a free one-day training and networking event for SQL Server and Business Intelligence professionals.  There will be six concurrent tracks:

• SQL Server 2012
• Database Administration
• Database Development
• Business Intelligence (two tracks)
• Microsoft Big Data

Register today and let your friends and colleagues know about this fantastic learning opportunity too.  See you on February 23rd!

Organizers: Mark Ginnebaugh and Ross Mistry.