6:00 – 6:30 Pizza and Networking sponsored by FGP
6:30 – 6:40 Announcements
6:40 – 8:15 John Welch : Introduction to Analysis Services 2008
8:15 – 8:30 Closing remarks and give-a-ways

Introduction to Analysis Services 2008
 
This session is intended to introduce database developers to Analysis Services 2008, with a focus on being able to quickly construct usable OLAP cubes. This presentation will be light on slides, and heavy on demonstrating how to perform the steps to create the cubes. During this session, we will cover the creation of a new cube from an existing database step by step. We will also highlight the reasons for using Analysis Services, and applicable scenarios for using it.

John Welch is Chief Architect with Mariner, a consulting firm specializing in enterprise reporting & analytics, data warehousing and performance management solutions. John has been working with business intelligence and data warehousing technologies for 7 years, with a focus on Microsoft products in heterogeneous environments. He is a Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP), an award given due to his commitment to sharing his knowledge with the IT community.  John is an experienced speaker, having given presentations at Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) conferences, the Microsoft Business Intelligence conference, Software Development West (SD West), Software Management Conference (ASM/SM), and others. He has also contributed to two recent books on SQL Server 2008, “Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Management and Administration” and "Smart Business Intelligence Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server 2008".
John writes a blog on business intelligence topics at http://agilebi.com/cs/blogs/bipartisan. He also writes one focused on SSIS topics at http://agilebi.com/CS/blogs/jwelch/. He is also active in open source projects that help ease the development process for Microsoft BI developers, including BIDS Helper (http://www.codeplex.com/bidshelper), an add-in for Business Intelligence Development Studio that adds commonly needed functionality to the environment. He is also the lead developer on ssisUnit (http://www.codeplex.com/ssisUnit), a unit testing framework for SSIS.