Azure Cognitive Services is Microsoft's family of AI services and cognitive APIs, designed to help developers build intelligent apps. These solutions try to mimic how the human mind thinks and works. 

Coeo Consultant Jon Gurgul explains the capabilities of these solutions and how we've used the them to support our clients, and gives his thoughts on the future of AI.

Find out more:

• Azure Cognitive Services website
• Coeo's Analytics and AI services

M&G is an international savings and investment company who adopted Power BI after migrating to Azure. They are members of Microsoft's Power BI Customer Advisory Board.

Nick Anderton, Head of Data Services at M&G, talks about the company's approach to data governance, the challenges of data ownership in finance companies and their Power BI journey so far. 

Want to find out more? Here are some useful links from this episode:

• Microsoft Power BI Ideas
• Guy in a Cube
• Chris Webb's BI Blog
• London Power BI User Group

Chris Kerswell and Chris Unwin from Redgate's DBAle podcast, and Coeo's Principal Consultant Andy Jones share their knowledge of Data DevOps.

Want to find out more? Here are some useful links from this episode:

• The 2020 State of Database DevOps
• The Phoenix Project
• The Netflix Tech Blog
• The SQL Community Slack Channel
• The DevOps Handbook

Christian and Jake from Coeo's Dedicated Support team chat about life as a Data Platform Specialist, and give their tips for managing your own estates and broadening your knowledge.

Raul - who co-runs the Reading Microsoft Data Platform User Group - talks to Justin about the importance of the data platform community and gives advice on how to get involved.

Trak Global collect and interpret data from "black boxes" in vehicles to help organisations manage driver and vehicle risk.

Infrastructure and Security Manager, Mike Parry talks to Justin about the challenges of moving the cloud and working with high volumes of data.

James Boother, Sales and Marketing Director at Coeo, talks about SQL Server 2008 End of Support, the risks to businesses and the options for remaining supported.

You can find out more information about this at:

• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-platform/windows-sql-server-2008
• https://info.coeo.com/sql-server-2008 

David Morrison, Principal Consultant at Coeo, explains how he got started in Business Intelligence, changes he's seen throughout his career, the impact of Power BI and his advice for those getting started within the industry.