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Unify Your Data with Microsoft Fabric

Your organization no longer needs to stitch together individual analytics services from multiple vendors. Data, analytics, and governance solutions can now work together to unlock actionable insights and turn data into a competitive advantage for your business. With Microsoft Fabric, now in preview, you can empower your employees to manage and analyze data with a unified, simplified, and powerful self-serve analytics platform. By registering for this webinar, you will learn how to: Responsibly democratize your data to empower data teams with access to the insights they need to make better and more timely business decisions. Utilize integration tools within the platform to prepare your data for future AI capabilities. Accelerate the ability to create value from data by unifying data and analytics from across your organization within a simplified web-based environment. Understand your complete data landscape with end-to-end governance to bridge data silos with cohesive policies, resource inventories, and cost monitoring services.

Unlock Innovation with Analytics

As businesses continue to invest in modernizing their data infrastructure, a new architectural vision has gained traction. Modern analytics and governance in the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform (MIDP), Microsoft’s hybrid approach to data mesh and data fabric, helps organizations build an enduring data foundation and then operationalize their end-to-end analytics ecosystem. Watch our webinar, Unlock Innovation with Analytics, to learn how the MIDP pulls together key capabilities to help you:   Focus on business value creation by empowering your lines of business through analytics federation—so teams can self-serve the data and analytics they need to generate their own business insights. Implement effective data management and governance to reduce data duplication, enable ease of access to relevant data, and improve data quality. Improve time to insight by leveraging automation and removing redundant data engineering work across your company. Drive cost efficiency by reducing infrastructure and data process complexity. As part of this webinar, Canada Life’s VP of Data James Ki will share the company’s implementation of this vision—modern analytics and governance at scale—to bring about a hybrid approach to data mesh and data fabric. James will talk through Canada Life’s journey to unlock business value with a modernized data and analytics ecosystem. Agendaa. Microsoft Hyproach to data mesh, data fabric and data hub

AI-Powered Analytics: Level Up Your Insights

Artificial intelligence is powering major advances across all facets of business—including the analytics ecosystem. Machine learning models enable predictive insights that can help identify optimization opportunities, prepare your business for the future, and unlock the deep value in your data to drive innovation.Watch this webinar to learn about the AI capabilities built into enterprise analytics and how unlocking your data’s value with advanced analytics, machine learning, and business intelligence helps drive next-level insights. You’ll learn how: New AI capabilities are embedded into analytics to help you uncover deeper insights and automate time-intensive processes. AI can accelerate time to insight, scaling, and business intelligence adoption in your organization. You can execute your AI strategy with fewer specialized machine learning resources by using an end-to-end analytics solution. During the event you will be able to ask your questions and solve doubts with our data specialist.

Transform Your Business with Analytics and Data Governance

Digital leaders gain competitive advantage from dynamic, deep information on their market, customers, and operations. Real-time insights into your business start with an analytics foundation that brings all your data together for a cohesive view.  Watch this webinar to understand how to get insights from all your data and drive innovation for your entire business with modern analytics. Learn how to: Accelerate data value creation by unifying data and analytics from across your organization within a single pane of glass.  Understand your data with end-to-end governance to bridge data siloes with cohesive policies, resource inventories, and cost monitoring.  Responsibly democratize your data to empower every data team with access to the insights they need.  We’ll show how data, analytics, and governance solutions—including Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Databricks, Microsoft Purview, and more—work together to deliver actionable insights that drive your business. 

Azure Live Q&A

Learn the fundamentals of getting started with Azure. Join a live Q&A session with an Azure technical expert in a live webinar format. Ask questions about your specific project or use case and learn from others in the Azure community. Schedule a session anytime you have a question or are looking for inspiration.

Build Cloud-Native Apps Workshop

Azure Technical Skilling Workshops provide you with the opportunity to get hands-on experience with the latest Azure services. Offered virtually, these full-day workshops will help you optimize your time and learning without the added travel and logistics planning. Simply join via Teams and get access to world-class trainers, a dynamic presentation, and real-time Q&A. Solve real business challenges in a virtual setting and learn quickly via hands-on labs.What to expect?Build Cloud-Native Apps workshop is invite-only and free for you. This 8hr workshop will help you in simplifying and accelerating your journey towards modernizing your existing applications and building new apps in a cloud-native way. This workshop will cover the following topics: How to assess your current Windows and SQL applications and migrate them to App Service as a path to modernization. What is cloud-native computing, what is Kubernetes, and why they are a part of the biggest trend in application development. Who should attend?This workshop includes advanced technical topics and hands-on labs and is recommended for Cloud Architects, IT Administrators, Developers, DevOps Engineers, SREs  What you’ll need? This workshop includes hands-on learning opportunities. You’ll need your laptop, power supply, plus any additional peripherals you may need.Security blockers or other corporate restrictions may limit your access to third-party, web-based lab environments.  We recommend checking your settings or using a personal laptop.   Here is some pre-workshop reading material to familiarize yourself with the workshop topics before you attend.      Indicative Agenda60 minutesModernize your enterprise applications120 minutesClick through Lab: Reviewing legacy app, migrate your application, modernize and test (Lab = .Net Modernization)60 minutesLunch40 minutesInnovate and scale with cloud-native apps120 minutesHands-on Lab/Live Lab: Deploy, test, and scale your application on Azure Kubernetes Service / Azure Red Hat Open Shift  (Lab = Cloud Native Applications)15 minutesNext steps and further learning  FAQsIs there a cost associated with attending? No. The workshops are free for registered attendees and available on a first come, first served basis. How long is each track? Each track is about 7-hours long and is a one-day commitment. You can expect a mix of presentations and hands-on labs.Will I be able to access the material and labs after the workshop?We can’t provide access to the content after the workshops, but we will share resources to help you continue learning in a follow up email.I can't attend at that time. Are these workshops available at a later date?If you can't make it this time, we encourage you to look out for future workshops.

Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: Data Fundamentals

Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: Fundamentals

Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: AI Fundamentals

Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: Innovate, Operate and Secure with Azure Arc

Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: Innovate and Scale with Cloud Native Apps

Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: Migrate and Modernise Your Data Estate and Infrastructure Workloads

Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: Well-Architected Framework

Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: Migrate and Modernise Your Data Estate and Infrastructure Workloads

Data Migration Workshop

Azure Technical Skilling Workshops provide you with the opportunity to get hands-on experience with the latest Azure services. Offered virtually, these full-day workshops will help you optimize your time and learning without the added travel and logistics planning. Simply join via Teams and get access to world-class trainers, a dynamic presentation, and real-time Q&A. Solve real business challenges in a virtual setting and learn quickly via hands-on labs. Agenda:9:00-10:00: Why migrate your databases to Azure10:00-10:15: Overview: Migrating an on-premise database to Azure10:15-11:45: Hands-on Lab Exercise 1&2: Use the Azure Database Migration Service to migrate the database from an on-premises SQL Server 2008 R2 database into Azure SQL Managed Instance (SQL MI)11:45-12:00: Overview: Updating Web App with Azure SQL12:00-13:00: Lunch13:00-13:45: Hands-on-Lab Exercise 3: Update the web application to use the new SQL MI database13:45-14:00: Overview: Enable Dynamic Data Masking14:00-14:45: Hands-on Lab Exercise 4: Integrate App Service with the Virtual Network 14:45-15:45: Using Data Migration Tools and Frameworks to do more with less15:45-16:00: Next steps and further learning

Azure Technical Workshop: Build Cloud Native Apps

Build Cloud-Native Apps workshop is invite-only and free for you. This 7,5 hr workshop will help you in simplifying and accelerating your journey towards modernizing your existing applications and building new apps in a cloud-native way. Together with our expert learning partner, Fastlane, we will deliver the workshop on the following topics:  How to assess your current Windows and SQL applications and migrate them to App Service as a path to modernization.What is cloud-native computing, what is Kubernetes, and why they are a part of the biggest trend in application development.  Who should attend? This workshop includes advanced technical topics and hands-on labs and is recommended for Cloud Architects, IT Administrators, Developers, DevOps Engineers, SREs    What you’ll need?  This workshop includes hands-on learning opportunities. You’ll need your laptop, power supply, plus any additional peripherals you may need.  Security blockers or other corporate restrictions may limit your access to third-party, web-based lab environments.  We recommend checking your settings or using a personal laptop.     Here is some pre-workshop reading material to familiarize yourself with the workshop topics before you attend.