I get asked all the time about MS BI futures, where are you going, what's the strategy and vision. Today, I thought I'd spend a bit of time on some of the things that we have today. One of Microsoft’s best kept secrets when it comes to data analysis is the functionality that exists today with Excel 2007 and the Data Mining Add-in tools. Here are a couple of “how to videos” that show What-if analysis, basket analysis, and goal seeking analysis all with functionality that you can do today with Excel 2007 and the Data Mining Add-in, which you can download here.

 

 

 

 

 

Additional tutorial videos on analysis services, data mining, reporting, and data integration are also available here. I’d like to give a special thanks to Mary Brennan and Michele Hart and all the folks on the technical writing team that put together content like this.

 

I’ll be on the showroom floor next week at the Microsoft user conference in LA, watch for more updates on what you can do today with Microsoft BI and more sneak peeks into the future. If you are at the show make sure to stop by the BI section and say hello.

 

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