analytics

Hi everyone, I’m diving into ROAS (Return on Ad Spend) and I’m a bit puzzled about using ROAS calculators. I understand the basics: dividing revenue by ad spend, but I’m confused about how to adjust the calculations for different campaign goals. Do ROAS calculators account for varying profit...

With people continuing to work from home and in hybrid working environments, Lenovo has expanded its solutions portfolio with the addition of new accessories, updated management software and a platform-agnostic compute device with Intel Unite. The ThinkSmart Cam and ThinkSmart Bar are the...

Next-Gen Access Cloud combines single sign-on, multifactor authentication, endpoint and mobile context, and user behavior analytics. Link Removed

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This focused security investment combines the best of Windows Defender ATP and the Windows security stack. We integrated Windows 10’s new prevention technologies, enhanced our built-in sensors to better detect script-based attacks, added new response capabilities and opened up powerful...

At Link Removed last week, the Windows Store announced new capabilities to reach more customers, improve your productivity and promote and monetize your apps and games, including: Offering your games to Xbox One users Updating your Store listings faster via import/export Releasing new games or...

In-app advertising continues to represent over one-third of the revenue that developers make from writing apps for the Microsoft Windows platform. As part of our continuous commitment to maximize developer monetization through ads, today we are excited to announce Microsoft’s ad mediation...

Today, I’m excited to announce that Steelcase and Microsoft are joining forces to reimagine the modern workplace by integrating the best of Microsoft Surface devices into the architecture of Steelcase. We are unveiling five new “Link Removed” to help companies revolutionize their workplaces...

Back in October, Satya, Terry and Panos introduced the Windows 10 Creators Update. They showed some of the new features and announced some amazing new additions to our Surface family of devices. Since then, my team has been working to complete the platform work for the Creators Update to deliver...

Developers, developers, developers! We’ve got quite a few updates for you this week, ranging from the upcoming live event to improved analytics for your apps in the Windows Store. Read on to see our recap of the past week. Windows Developers Day – Creators Update Only a few days left to RSVP...

Mobile app attribution, different from traditional online attribution which uses things like cookies or pixel tags, is the method of measuring a user’s activities on an app. These activities could be an app install, making in-app purchases or completing a level within an app. This information is...

AdlCopy is a command-line tool that allows you to copy data from Azure Storage Containers or Blobs into Azure Data Lake Store. More details are available in documentation on Azure.microsoft.com under Analytics -> Azure Data Lake Store. Link Removed

Revolution R Enterprise is the fastest, most cost effective, big analytics solution available. RRE 7.5.0 lets you use the R language with high-performance servers to unlock the insight hidden in data across complex and diverse data infrastructures, including SQL Server 2015 CTP 3, clusters and...

The Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Feature Pack is a collection of stand-alone packages which provide additional value for Microsoft SQL Server. Link Removed

Last week Microsoft held its MVP Global Summit on the Microsoft Redmond campus. 1,900+ MVP's (including your truly) descended on the campus and spent 3-6 days connecting with each other and many of the product groups. While the entire Summit was NDA, the Channel 9 team was ALL over recording a...

Revolution R Enterprise is the fastest, most cost effective, enterprise-class, big data big analytics software available. With high-performance analytics, Revolution R Enterprise unlocks the insight hidden in Big Data across complex and diverse data infrastructures, including SQL Server 2015 CTP...

Recently, we released a new feature that provides app usage information to developers in Dev Center. This feature is included in all new Windows 10 (UWP) package submissions and allows developers to view app usage statistics, including user sessions, active users, session length, page views...

Download the product documentation, sample database, and client tools for Microsoft Analytics Platform System. The client tools listed here enable you to load data into Parallel Data Warehouse, a component of APS. Link Removed

With new chart types and improvements to PivotTables and business intelligence (BI), Microsoft Excel 2016 makes it easier to work with large amounts of data and give it even more meaning. Unlock insights, and tell the story in your data by organizing it in spreadsheets (workbooks). View your...

SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview 2.3 is here! It is the biggest leap forward in Microsoft’s data platform history with faster transactions and queries, deeper insights on any device, advanced analytics, new security technology, and new hybrid cloud scenarios. Link Removed