Reminder of July User's Group Meeting - DOES NOT REQUIRE RSVP - Open to All 
The July meeting will take place on Thursday, July 16th, at 2:30 PM CDT.

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Title: Microsoft's Modern Data Warehouse Architecture

Speaker: Pierre LaFromboise, Director of Business Analytics, Covenant Technology Partners

Pierre has worn multiple hats on his journey through technology: everything from a systems administrator for Internet service providers to a web designer to even a .Net developer. Starting with a chance encounter with Ralph Kimball’s Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit, the last decade has been focused on business intelligence and data warehouse design primarily on Microsoft’s SQL Server platform. Currently, he leads one of the largest Microsoft focused BI consulting teams in the St. Louis region.

Microsoft recently announced a rebranding of their Azure SQL Data Warehouse to Azure Synapse Analytics. But, Azure Synapse Analytics promises much more than just a replacement for a relational data warehouse. It represents the culmination of their modern analytics data architecture vision and it spans everything from traditional dataset to big data to streaming real-time analytics all under a single pane of glass. In this session we will go through an architectural overview of platform, discuss what is available right now, what is coming, and how this changes the way we approach analytics.