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Get Everything BI at PASS Summit 2009

As you may know, Microsoft has decided to make the BI Conference into a biennial event, with the next conference in 2010. For 2009, we are excited to team with the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) to expand the BI tracks at PASS Summit 2009 Read More...

Posted Friday, August 14, 2009 12:16 AM by kristinakerr | 0 Comments

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Falcon Eye demo on Microsoft Surface

The guys from Infusion have put together a short video on their Falcon Eye Application for Microsoft surface, we did a demo of this at last year’s BI conference in Seattle . Falcon Eye is all about data navigation, but not just any old data navigation Read More...

Posted Thursday, April 02, 2009 6:18 PM by nismith | 2 Comments

Filed under: business intelligence, BI, SQL Server, SharePoint Server, Excel Services, Falcon Eye, Microsoft Surface, data visualization, Infusion

Environmental Sustainability and BI

Sustainability is a topic of considerable interest these days. Business intelligence is a way organizations can use technology to get better insight into how green they really are and ultimately drive down costs by switching to more efficient and green Read More...

Posted Thursday, March 12, 2009 7:53 PM by nismith | 2 Comments

Filed under: BI, dashboards, Microsoft, sustainability, carbon footprint, Environment

Rules for BI in the Cloud, Step One: Get Data in the Cloud

I wanted to pass along some recent news from the SQL Data Services team. Today details on new SQL Data Services features were announced . Here are some additional details on the announcement, most importantly what this has to do with information management Read More...

Posted Wednesday, March 11, 2009 12:10 AM by nismith | 1 Comments

Filed under: BI, Microsoft, Vision, Azure, platform, SQL Server Data Services, cloud, roadmap

Microsoft a Leader in BI

For a second year running, Microsoft has been placed in the leaders quadrant of Gartner’s BI platform category in 2009 . In the report, Gartner describes how BI platform revenue will be less effected by the current economic climate largely due to its Read More...

Posted Wednesday, February 04, 2009 11:28 PM by nismith | 2 Comments

Filed under: BI, Gartner, Microsoft BI, SharePoint, Excel, SQL Server, CIO spending, lower TCO, Leaders quad

Cost and Usability Top List in Mid Market Survey for BI

DM review recently conducted a survey targeted at midmarket organizations using or considering business intelligence. The survey attempts to identify adoption rates, general awareness and satisfaction with BI in general and targeted midmarket solutions. Read More...

Posted Saturday, January 31, 2009 5:04 PM by nismith | 1 Comments

Filed under: BI, Gartner, Microsoft BI, TCO, DM review, Usability, mid market

What's up with PerformancePoint?!

Day 2 at the BI Conference has come and gone. I had every intention of posting my thoughts on what's happened over the past few days. But, my schedule has been non-stop with early morning breakfast meetings through late night dinners with customers. I've Read More...

Posted Tuesday, October 07, 2008 11:25 PM by akamlet | 2 Comments

Filed under: business intelligence, performance management, BI, BI Conference, Microsoft BI, PerformancePoint Server, Connecting to the business, Finance, data visualization, Success, ROI, closed-loop performance management, dashboards, budgeting, return on investment, planning, BI for the Masses, Surface, Think Bigger about BI, Microsoft BI Conference, BI Trends, Microsoft

Boris Evelson of Forrester looks into his Crystal Ball and sees Gemini

This morning at the BI Conference here in beautiful Seattle, Washington, we unveiled some cool new technology that we think will dramatically change the way people create and consume BI data. The way blogs and wikis made publishing content on the web Read More...

Posted Monday, October 06, 2008 11:24 PM by kristinakerr | 1 Comments

Filed under: BI, BI Conference, Microsoft BI, BI for the Masses, BI Trends, Gemini, disruptive technology, Boris Evelson, self-service, Forrester

BI and Politics can be Sexy

Have you been caught up in the US election campaign hoopla recently? It’s hard to avoid and speculation of who will win, which states are strategic, and how many votes are needed are surging like wildfire. Sounds like a pretty good topic for business Read More...

Posted Thursday, September 11, 2008 8:52 PM by nismith | 1 Comments

Filed under: BI, bobbleheads, Surface, US Election, What if analysis

Microsoft to Acquire DATAllegro

I'm sure most of you have seen the news by now, but Microsoft announced last week at the financial analyst conference that it has acquired the assets of privately-held data warehousing company DATAllegro, based in Alisa Biejo, CA, in Orange County. This Read More...

Posted Wednesday, July 30, 2008 12:50 PM by guyweismantel | 1 Comments

Filed under: BI, DATAllegro, data warehousing

Is it Really Vista?

While not exactly BI related, I thought I'd pass along a great piece of marketing focused on gaining customer adoption of Windows Vista. As everyone knows, Microsoft has had its share of, ahem, "issues" in customer perceptions of Vista, its reliability, Read More...

Posted Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:35 AM by guyweismantel | 1 Comments

Filed under: BI, Vista, Mojave Experiment

The BI Fun Continues at Tech Ed in Orlando!

We’ve wrapped up a great first week in Orlando with the first of two programs on BI, last week for Developers, this week with a focus on IT Pro's. As many of you know, this is the first year that we’re splitting Tech Ed into 2 weeks from the traditional Read More...

Posted Sunday, June 08, 2008 10:16 AM by guyweismantel | 1 Comments

Filed under: BI, Tech Ed, Developers...Developers...Developers

BI at Tech Ed in Orlando!

Our apologies for the light posting lately—we’ve been in heads-down planning mode, getting ready for our biggest BI year ever in the company. We’ve officially now entered “Event Season” here at Microsoft, where we hold some of our biggest company events Read More...

Posted Sunday, June 08, 2008 10:02 AM by guyweismantel | 1 Comments

Filed under: BI, Hot, Orlando, Tech Ed

IT = India Time: BI in Dubai

I had the opportunity to present with our partner KPMG at last week’s Microsoft Executive Series Leadership Conclave (say THAT 10 times fast) in Dubai on our business intelligence and performance management solutions, and how organizations can adopt BI Read More...

Posted Monday, April 28, 2008 12:22 PM by guyweismantel | 1 Comments

Filed under: performance management, BI, BI and India, India

The Importance of "Familiarity" to your BI Users

An interesting question posed recently by one customer to another at a trade show that I happened to overhear while walking (OK running) to the brownie table during one of the breaks: "How important is the familiarity of the BI tools to you?" Now while Read More...

Posted Wednesday, April 16, 2008 4:14 PM by guyweismantel | 3 Comments

Filed under: BI, Familiarity, Brownies