To Boldy Code where no Visual Studio Live! has coded before! That's right. We are transporting Visual Studio Live! to our nation's capital for the first time in 21 years. From Oct 6 – 9, 2014, developer, software architect, engineer and designer pioneers will gather in our country's headquarters for 4 days of cutting-edge education on the Microsoft Platform. Join us on this special journey to explore topics covering all-things WCF, ALM,...

The 12th Annual Enterprise Architecture Event continues to serve as the leading educational forum for enterprise architects and project managers to convene and learn from expert practitioners in EA on the latest methods, frameworks and policies impacting the EA community. This year's pre-event workshops and two-day conference will focus on how Enterprise Architecture can save the day in times of flat budgets. The Enterprise Architecture Event...

Managing Agile BI for the Enterprise You’re well aware of the benefits of agile—increasing productivity and flexibility, providing faster time to value, and supporting collaborative relationships between users and IT developers. One problem: it’s becoming increasingly complex to marry agile techniques with enterprise databases, and handle complex modeling in an agile environment. Whether you’ve tried agile before or are...

Register for Nextgov Prime!Gov2020-Embracing the Art of the Possible What does government look like in 2020? And how can technology change the way government works? Attend Nexstgov Prime this September 8-9 to connect with over 500 federal IT influencers who are designing the government of 2020. This 2 day learning event will help federal managers address pressing challenges such as: Leveraging technology to make change real Advancing procureme...

Set Your Course for 127.0.0.1 Visual Studio Live! has set the course for 127.0.0.1 – and we want you to join us. From August 18 – 22, 2014, developers, software architects and designers will land in Redmond, WA at the idyllic Microsoft headquarters for 5 days of cutting-edge education on the Microsoft Platform. Join us on this special journey to explore topics covering all-things WCF, ALM, Web Development, Data Management, Visual S...

In-depth Training for IT Pros Join us at Microsoft Headquarters in Redmond, WA for TechMentor 2014: Datacenter Edition! In this special TechMentor, we're focused entirely on making your server and management infrastructure more modern, more capable, and more manageable. We've heard you clearly: you've got your client situation under control, and you're looking to start squeezing more return from your existing server and infrastructure investme...

Find Innovative Solutions to Your Campus-Wide IT Challenges, at Campus Technology Year after year, Campus Technology is the leading source for industry knowledge and professional development. At this year’s conference, you’ll discover a diverse and relevant offering of courses that you won’t find anywhere else. Learn from the pros in targeted sessions and workshops—all focused on your most pressing campus-wide IT challe...

Evolving Your Analytics Infrastructure Analytics is the heartbeat of data warehousing, business intelligence, and analysis. The key to getting value from analytics is a solid analytics infrastructure. In Boston, our instructor-led courses will connect the dots between data warehousing, business intelligence, and analytics, to show you how a solid data architecture builds a robust BI framework that allows for both basic and advanced analytics....

Big Data potentially is one of the most important technology trends in recent years in the government IT community. Agencies can take advantage of a booming market of commercial tools and techniques for extracting insights from their data to inform decision-making and improve operational efficiencies. Additionally, they can generate even greater insight by collaborating with the public on information innovation. The challenge, however, is that...

Big data continues to prove its mettle in a variety of missions across government, and the technology is now beginning to show significant promise in agencies charged with researching health and providing healthcare to our nation's war-fighters and veterans. Steadily, agencies like the Department of Veterans Affairs, National Institutes of Health and others are becoming more data-intensive and data-driven, yet these agencies face major securit...