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There is a problem facing software release management. It is not managed well enough. When the product is ready to deploy, a few software release engineers will get together and try to piece all of the components successfully to the production environment.

Magenic would proudly like to congratulate Jason Bock on being the recipient of Microsoft’s “MVP Of The Year” award for Visual C#. A Principal Lead Consultant and Magenicon of almost 12 years, Jason is one of only 32 recipients of this great award. With over 4000 MVPs globally, that’s no small feat!

On Saturday, March 9, 2013, consultants from Magenic spoke and volunteered at the first SQL Saturday ever in the Philippines.

I've had an idea for a Team Foundation Server (TFS) utility brewing for a while. Usually I publish my TFS utilities as command-line or standalone desktop applications; this sample has inspired me to create a utility with tighter Visual Studio integration.

Over the next two months, March and April, Magenic data professionals will be involved in SQL Saturdays in Costa Rica and in the Philippines.

Magenic Vice President of Business Development Matt Lockhart was recently a guest on Talk Business 360 – an airline radio show that can be heard on flights from Delta, American Airlines and U.S. Airways.

Microsoft introduced a new feature in SharePoint 2013 called Cross-Site Publishing. This new functionality allows content in one site collection to be more easily shown in another site collection.

A good data warehouse is a core component of any organization’s BI infrastructure. It is used to create the cubes, reports and dashboards that deliver business value. For this reason, it is extremely important that any new data warehouse project is successfully executed, otherwise the rest of your BI infrastructure will be negatively affected.

“With great power comes great responsibility.” –Spiderman the movie (or supposedly some Voltaire guy). Either way, that motto rings true with Magenic’s Software Superheroes. Take a look at a few of the many ways they share their talents with the tech community.

In July of 2012, I wrote about the impact of Excel 2013 for BI users. I wanted to follow that up with more information about what you will find when you open up Excel 2013. In my original post, I highlighted the “big release” features Microsoft brought to Excel. Before we dig into some of the other cool features, let’s look at what Microsoft’s strategy is around BI for end users and visualizations.