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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 | 0 Comments

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 | 0 Comments
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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

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
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Gartner BI Recap

This was the first North American BI focused Gartner event where Microsoft was positioned as a leader in the BI quadrant. I focused most of my time on the CPM side of the house attending most of the performance management related sessions, here’s a recap Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 08, 2008 1:24 AM by nismith | 0 Comments
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Which BI Environment Would You Prefer: Excel? Or “Excel-Like?”

Because that’s increasingly the choice that customers are being asked to make, and one, quite frankly, we’re more than happy to have a discussion around. With the recent consolidation of vendors in the BI marketplace, there are predictably hard choices Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 02, 2008 1:51 PM by guyweismantel | 4 Comments

The Challenge of Disruptive Product Roadmaps to your BI Solution

There’s been lots of talk in the last week or so as the fall-out of the BI consolidation becomes more apparent. Making decisions on what products to continue developing, which products to end-of-life, and which products you want to punt on and defer to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 9:58 AM by guyweismantel | 0 Comments
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Gartner BI Australia Conference Round-Up

Just back from the Gartner Australian business intelligence summit held last week in sunny Sydney, Australia (I know, but somebody’s gotta do these things) with a few thoughts on the BI market in Australia and Asia-Pac and the conference round-up: · Companies Read More...
Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 4:00 PM by guyweismantel | 2 Comments

BI Recap at the Microsoft SharePoint 2008 Conference!

After an amazing week, the SharePoint 2008 conference has come to a close. 3800+ attendees from all over the world converged on Seattle to hear from experts, network, and explore partner solutions all on top of SharePoint 2007. For those who are interested Read More...
Posted Monday, March 10, 2008 6:59 AM by guyweismantel | 4 Comments

MSFT BI Takes the Stage at TechReady 6

A great start yesterday at the TechReady 6 conference in Seattle for Microsoft Business Intelligence. For those not familiar with the conference, it's our internal, 2x/year gathering of field technical personnel from around the world to get together and Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:27 AM by guyweismantel | 1 Comments
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Microsoft BI Actually "Leading" in the Gartner BI Magic Quadrant?

Far be it from us to ever break official protocol and the guidelines related to how we report our results from any of the Gartner Magic Quadrants in which we compete. We totally respect their process, and as you can see from both our press release yesterday Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 7:39 AM by guyweismantel | 2 Comments

Welcome to THE BI Blog

Welcome to what we hope will become the definitive blog on business intelligence, THE BI Blog. Not too huge of a goal or vision, huh? There are already some great blogs out there on all different aspects of business intelligence and performance management--from Read More...
Posted Friday, January 11, 2008 3:52 PM by guyweismantel | 2 Comments
 
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