We are excited about a number of fantastic complimentary webinars coming up in September with guest speakers from The Open University and Microsoft! 

First in the line up, Barry Corless; Business Development Director for Best Practice at Global Knowledge and guest speaker; Kevin Streater; Head of IT Industry Engagement at The Open University, will host “ITIL® expert and beyond explained… higher is better” on Thursday 6^th September at 13:00 GMT.

In response to a number of questions asked since the launch of the Postgraduate Certificate in Advanced Professional Practice (IT Service Management), our industry experts; Barry and Kevin, get together to help you understand some of the details of this unique qualification.

This short webinar will focus on the following elements:

• How is the Postgraduate Certificate in Advanced Professional Practice (IT Service Management) structured
• What can you expect to learn
• The mechanics of the qualification and just how much work you will be letting yourself in for.

For further details on this webinar, visit our website or register directly.

Next in the line up, guest speaker Andrew Fryer Technical Evangelist at Microsoft, will host a webinar series around SQL Server 2012.

The first webinar in the series: “SQL Server 2012 — A Database Overview”, will be hosted on  Wednesday 12^th September at 13:00 GMT.

During this session, Andrew will cover off what’s new in SQL Server 2012 for the database developer and DBA, including:

• High Availability
• Developer Tools
• Data Quality
• Columnstore indexes
• Unstructured data

The 2^nd part “SQL Server 2012 – A Business Intelligence Overview” will take place on Wednesday 10^th October at 13:00 GMT.

In this one hour webinar, Andrew will cover off the three top BI features in the latest version of SQL Server (SQL Server 2012), and how they fit together:

• Self Service Business Intelligence with the new BI semantic Model and Power View visualization tool
•  Data Quality Services
•  Master Data Services

To register for these two webinars, please visit our website.

If you’d like to learn more about SQL Server 2012, MCSA Certification or the new Microsoft Technical Certifications as a whole, please visit our site for more details.

Keep an eye open for upcoming webinars, including “Service Level Management and the cloud revolution. A survival guide”  as well as our previous webinar archive via our website.