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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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Preview of Project Gemini

Watch a preview of creating an analysis model with Excel and Gemini. Watch a preview of sharing a Gemini model on the web with SharePoint and Excel Services. Watch for more news on Microsoft BI and project Gemini at Microsoft’s user conference next week, Read More...

Posted Monday, May 04, 2009 10:45 PM by nismith | 5 Comments

Filed under: Microsoft BI, Excel, SQL Server 2008, Gemini, Excel Services, tech Ed 2009, Analysis Services

Microsoft Business Intelligence Vision and Strategy Slides

What is Microsoft BI? What is the Microsoft BI value proposition? How do the Microsoft products come together across SQL Server, SharePoint Server, and Microsoft Office to provide a complete BI offering from the BI platform through end user tools. Here Read More...

Posted Tuesday, April 14, 2009 7:23 AM by nismith | 1 Comments

Filed under: business intelligence, Microsoft BI, Excel, SQL Server 2008, Strategy, Vision, SharePoint Server, Microsoft Office, bi slides

Microsoft BI Conference Update

2009 BI Conference Update: We heard from our customers and partners that due to global economic constraints to travel budgets worldwide, we should make the BI Conference a biannual event. The next BI Conference that was scheduled for October 2009 will Read More...

Posted Friday, April 10, 2009 1:41 AM by nismith | 1 Comments

Filed under: business intelligence, BI Conference, Excel, Tech Ed, Microsoft, SQL Server, SharePoint Server

BI and the Way we Work

At work, we are responsible for using a variety of data to make decisions. We share data and conclusions with colleagues, internal partners, and our management. Increasingly we are asked to look at data more closely, to look at things we weren’t looking Read More...

Posted Friday, April 03, 2009 7:28 PM by nismith | 1 Comments

Filed under: business intelligence, PerformancePoint Server, Excel, Insight, SharePoint Server, Microsoft Office, better decisions, you already have it, office online, tough economic times, sharing data, analyze

What is your Digital Footprint?

How many emails do you send and receive every day? Of those emails, how many do you attach photos, powerpoints, or documents? How many hours do you spend on the internet every week? Check out this digital footprint calculator application from EMC and Read More...

Posted Monday, March 30, 2009 4:15 AM by nismith | 1 Comments

Filed under: business intelligence, Excel, Microsoft, Insight, SQL Server, enterprise software, SharePoint Server, Office, digital footprint, information growth, data navigation, data storage

Office Marketplace for Business Intelligence Solutions

I wanted to share this BI solutions marketplace on the office online site as I think it’s something that few people actually know of. The site hosts a collection of BI solutions using office, mostly Excel. The solutions include scorecards, a wage calculator, Read More...

Posted Sunday, March 29, 2009 1:09 AM by nismith | 1 Comments

Filed under: business intelligence, Microsoft BI, Excel, Microsoft Office, solution marketplace

How Do you Dig your Data?

Remember Dig Dug? It was a popular 80’s arcade game based on a simple concept, just dig. Which is what the SQL Server Data Mining team is all about. How do you analyze information? Do you need to forecast and predict outcomes? The SQL Server Data Mining Read More...

Posted Sunday, March 29, 2009 12:56 AM by nismith | 1 Comments

Filed under: business intelligence, Excel, Microsoft, SQL Server, analysis, cloud, data mining, forecast, data, data prediction, SaaS, dig dug

March Madness Bracket Tracker

Speaking of analysis, NCAA March Madness basketball is just around the corner, and you are probably starting to think about filling out your tournament brackets. For many of us bracketology is a science, and often more important than any business intelligence Read More...

Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2009 2:06 AM by nismith | 1 Comments

Filed under: Excel, analysis, silverlight, bracketology, free march madness bracket, NCAA basketball, final four, NCAA basketball bracket, download bracket, bracket tracker, officelive workspaces, March Madness

Ballmer calls out BI as a key Enterprise Software growth strategy

Here’s an interesting read from The Seattle Times on what Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told Wall Street about Microsoft’s investment plans. The article provides a breakdown of the seven big businesses that Microsoft continues to invest in, including, Windows, Read More...

Posted Thursday, February 26, 2009 5:04 AM by nismith | 1 Comments

Filed under: Microsoft BI, Excel, Collaboration, Microsoft, SQL Server, enterprise software, SharePoint Server, PerformancePoint Services, Steve Ballmer, Excel Services, Microsoft Office, information worker, productivity tools, better insight, better decisions

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

Microsoft BI Strategy Update

Hi everyone, I wanted to provide an important update on the Microsoft BI strategy! For over ten years we’ve been on a mission to deliver BI to everyone in the organization, and have made strides towards achieving this goal through the broadly adopted Read More...

Posted Friday, January 23, 2009 5:46 AM by nismith | 18 Comments

Filed under: PerformancePoint Server, Excel, BI for the Masses, SQL Server, TCO, Microsoft BI Strategy, SharePoint Server

Just Do It, with Excel

Love the title of this recent article on Tech New World, David Hatch and Andrew Stamer share their insights on project Gemini which was recently featured at the Microsoft BI conference in Seattle. There’s an interesting section on BI total cost of ownership Read More...

Posted Sunday, January 11, 2009 8:37 PM by nismith | 1 Comments

Filed under: Excel, Gemini, TCO, Bo Knows, Self Service BI

Closing the Gap Between Analytics and Collaboration

How many business decisions do you make every day? 5, 10, 20, more? How many phone calls do you make per day? Just looking at my last phone bill this is a question I personally don’t want to even take a guess at, note to self find a better cell service Read More...

Posted Thursday, November 06, 2008 6:03 PM by nismith | 1 Comments

Filed under: Microsoft BI, Excel, Collaboration, connected approach, BI demo, analytics, dashboard, one click phone calls, sales analytics, unified communications, scorecard, communication

Need Chart Advice?

Not sure if you've checked out OfficeLabs , a site dedicated to promoting ideas within Microsoft and allowing you to determine whether it is useful or not (they collect usage data on the prototypes). This week a new prototype went up called ChartAdvisor, Read More...

Posted Saturday, August 30, 2008 1:37 AM by pejmanj | 1 Comments

Filed under: Excel, BI and Excel, What's Hot, Charts