May 8, 2014
Forecasting capabilities added to Power BI for Office 365

Forecasting capabilities, a new feature for Power BI (Business Intelligence) for Office 365, was announced Thursday at the PASS Business Analytics Conference in San Jose, California. The added feature means customers can apply forecasting, hindcasting and do “what-if” analysis with outliers when visualizing and exploring data.

May 6, 2014
New York MTA chooses Microsoft Office 365

New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, the largest transportation network in North America, has chosen Microsoft Office 365 for cloud-based email and productivity at a potential savings of more than $6 million. But, more importantly, this migration may save lives.

May 6, 2014
San Bernardino County chooses Office 365, Windows 8.1

The move to this cloud-based platform will save the department money, while enabling those on the front lines of the geographically largest county in the United States to do their jobs better on the go. Plus, Office 365 complies with FBI security and regulations, a must for the department.

May 2, 2014
Using Power BI, hospital analyzes data in hours instead of months

Oslo University Hospital in Norway wanted to see what Power BI for Office 365 could do to turn previously disconnected data into actionable insight. So Michael Hopmere, principal program manager of Microsoft Healthcare Ecosystem Cloud & Enterprise Division, put together a proof of concept. The result was remarkable.