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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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Bing it on!

Earlier this week Microsoft released its new search engine called Bing, only it’s not actually a search engine, it’s a decision engine. What’s the difference? This business intelligence world is all about making better decisions and in today’s business Read More...

Posted Thursday, June 04, 2009 10:58 PM by nismith | 1 Comments

Filed under: Microsoft, decision engine, Bing

Bing Roundup

What is Bing and why should you care? Here’s a list of resources that will help you get familiar with Microsoft new decision engine. In the BI world we’ve have heard a lot about Business Intelligence and search coming together, Bing provides everyone Read More...

Posted Monday, June 01, 2009 4:04 AM by nismith | 1 Comments

Filed under: Microsoft, search, decision engine, Bing

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

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

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

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 Vision for Productivity

Microsoft business division president Stephen Elop unveiled Microsoft’s vision for how productivity in our daily lives is re-imagined. Watch the speech to hear the latest ideas and technology aspirations from across the company. Follow more updates her Read More...

Posted Tuesday, March 10, 2009 5:54 AM by nismith | 2 Comments

Filed under: Microsoft, Vision, Office, productivity, aspiration, technology

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

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

Thinking Bigger About BI

The second annual Microsoft BI Conference is just around the corner, (next week in Seattle, Oct 6-8). The show will feature keynote presentations from Stephen Elop, President of the Microsoft Business Division, Ted Kummert, Corporate VP of Data & Read More...

Posted Friday, October 03, 2008 1:44 AM by nismith | 1 Comments

Filed under: business intelligence, performance management, Think Bigger about BI, Bueller, Ben Stein, Seattle, Microsoft BI Conference, Strategy, US Economy, BI Trends, Microsoft, Vision, Insight