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This question came up from a client last week and it was surprisingly hard to find an answer. But find it I did, from Microsoft’s Cloud Sales Manager in the UK. The question was related to SharePoint...
View ArticleCharity pricing for Microsoft Office 365
I’ve been asked several times by charities about whether they get a discount on Office 365 prices. They typically get a very good discount on normal purchased licenses so the standard pricing for...
View ArticleConcentra – 26th Fastest-Growing Tech Company in the UK
The Sunday Times Tech Track 100 We have been named as one of the fastest-growing technology companies in the UK – as ranked by the Sunday Times Tech Track 100. The Sunday Times Tech Track 100 league...
View ArticleMicrosoft cuts Office 365 prices
Good news for the cloud enthusiasts. Microsoft announced on March 14 price cuts to a number of its Office 365 enterprise and academic plans. Microsoft officials explain that due to economies of scale...
View ArticleMicrosoft BI Reporting Tools – Which should you use?
With the recent launch of SQL Server 2012, Microsoft (MS) is placing even more emphasis on their suite of Business Intelligence tools and features such as the multidimensional capabilities of Analysis...
View ArticleDeveloper Overview of Office 2013 Apps
After attending the SharePoint Conference a couple of weeks ago in Las Vegas I was inspired to spend some time with Office Apps. Office Apps allow you to show a web page within an Office program....
View ArticleWhat you need in your data warehouse framework
Introduction Every company that either builds ETL processes for enterprise data warehouses for a living or develops and maintains their own data warehouses and ETL processes internally eventually...
View ArticleSSIS Data Flow Task not reading columns correctly from stored procs? 3...
Working as a BI Developer with the Microsoft stack of tools, I often handle complex business rules/functionality within stored procedures using temp tables and call it in SSIS within Execute SQL task...
View ArticleConcentra gets Microsoft Golds
We are delighted to announce that Concentra has renewed its Microsoft Partnership status for another year. Concentra now officially has four Microsoft Partnership competencies including 2 gold level...
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