Intelligent Insight on PerformancePoint

Thanks to Patrick Husting who posted these (PDFs)which includes product data sheets: overview, analytics, monitoring, reporting, and planning. PerformancePointServer 2007 Overview - [ download ] PerformancePointServer 2007 Analytics - [ download ] PerformancePointServer...

We've just concluded the formal conference season - with the completion of Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston and Microsoft's internal MGX Sales Conference in Atlanta. Having just completed a phenomenal fiscal year we typically spend the first two...

OK so it's still REALLY early days and the product's still to be released but the guys at Solver have been working with Oticon in Denmark for many months on this solution around PerformancePoint planning. I'd encourage you to take a look at it. Over the...

Still awaiting for a confirmed date for CTP3 but here's a list of what we'll be adding for the release around monitoring and analytics. The following Monitoring and Analytics features have been added in Microsoft PerformancePoint Server 2007 CTP3:...

I'm going to be incommunicado for a couple of weeks whilst I treat my family to a long overdue holiday in France. There will be lots to tell you when I return including a date for the PerformancePoint Server launch, and our plans around a UK business...

Completely off topic BUT before you deliver a presentation on PowerPoint I'd encourage you to read this post from Seth Godin . It might sound strange coming from someone at Microsoft but I actually don't like PowerPoint that much. But before you cry heretic...

Back from France last week - and surprisingly missed the typical 2,500 new emails. They have been replaced with friend requests, wall posts and zombie invitations (just in case you're wondering I don't understand zombies either.) The PerformancePoint...

Anyone - who's a regular reader of this blog (I think there's about 3 other than my immediate family) will know that I have a real fascination of the role web 2.0 will have in transforming the business intelligence landscape. Over the past couple of weeks...

The PerformancePoint Server 2007 Planning & Architecture Guide, Deployment Guide, and Operations Guide are now available as downloadable books from TechNet. Information about how to plan a PerformancePoint Server deployment in a large enterprise environment...

So SAP/BOBJ are using Sir Mixalot as their unofficial mascot with the release of Baby got BI. Our approach is a little different but here's how the Softie's do it. I'll leave you to be the judge of who's best in the "war on talent".   Technorati...

Here's another great tip from Alyson Powell Erwin in the PPS planning team. When integrating PerformancePoint Planning with PerformancePoint Monitoring, you need to keep the following in mind: PerformancePoint Planning cubes are recreated in each environment...

I read this post from Hugh MacLeod just before the holidays - and it got me thinking about the role of extracting intelligence from ERP (or for that matter any transactional systems) and perhaps more critically from barely repeatable processes (BRP)....

OK - so if you haven't booked in for the Microsoft Business Intelligence Partner Day/Love-in you're probably too late. But for those who can't make it due to the fact that you're not in the UK I'll provide a synopsis of the Gartner overview in a blog...

Hi and welcome to the new UK PerformancePoint Server blog. For the past month I've had many sleepless nights trying to come up with something, innovative, intelligent, and poignant to call my blog. I started with the guys in Microsoft's business marketing...

So you miss a couple of sessions at the gym, and put on a few pounds. Blogging is no different, every now and then you get busy, and blogging soon becomes a distant memory. I know it's been a while since my last post - but I've been crazy busy , and with...

Vendor consolidation has prompted a number of customers and vendors to look at BI differently. This is certainly different. Hat-tip to the Performance Guys .   UPDATE: This is written with no agenda, prejudice or ulterior motive but it seems this...

If you haven't already got access to the Biz# BETA you can log-on to the Microsoft Connect Web Site to download it as well as other white-papers and training materials that should assist you to position Microsoft's wider business intelligence and Corporate...

In case you weren't aware of this...last week we released the Service Pack for PerformancePoint Server 2007. With this new Service Pack, enhancements have been made to the monitoring, analyzing and planning functionality found in PerformancePoint Server...

  Great news - We've decided to create THE BI BLOG . I've been asked to contribute (which is a great honour) and we'll look to make sure there's something in here for everyone from the customer, partner, developer, and implementer. For the BI BLOG...

I published a post last week on the System Requirements for PerformancePoint Server . I need to make one clarification as Derek - very kindly pinged me an email to check. Thanks Derek This is a subject which has already confused some customers and partners...

Completely off topic but thought it was worth sharing. Via Seth Godin 's blog. Quite extraordinary.

Here's a great tool that allows you to build your own search engine. Live Search Macros . Norm Warren has created a search macro for PerformancePoint which you can use to find documentation, whitepapers, VPC's, and other information around Microsoft BI...

Lot's of news this week from Oracle's decision to buy BEA , Sun's decision to purchase MySQL , Cognos 8.3 launch , and a joint announcement from SAP and BOBJ . Phew. I like the Performance Guys take on this weeks news. If you've not added this to you...

An interesting acquisition and evidence again of the vendor convergence going on. I've been watching Celequest for a while primarily because they've got a really interesting SaaS offering which it seems maybe one of the key drivers around this acquisition...

Here's a link to the SQL Server Best Practices Analyser (BPA) . In short it provides guidance for OLAP database analysis and recommendations for fine-tuning performance. Technorati tags: SQL Server 2005 , Microsoft