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Financial Planning Accelerator Announced

If you have paid any attention to Microsoft in the BI space in the past few months you have likely heard a lot about PerformancePoint. Based on requests from customers and partners, Microsoft will make available the source code and project files derived Read More...

Posted Thursday, June 18, 2009 12:46 AM by nismith | 3 Comments

Filed under: Microsoft BI, PerformancePoint Server, SharePoint Server, Financial Planning

PerformancePoint integration with Sharepoint

Watch this short video to find out what the strategy changes mean for customers and to catch up on the latest news for the Microsoft Business Intelligence product suite. Michael Tejedor goes into the details of the announcement, what these changes mean Read More...

Posted Monday, April 06, 2009 9:49 PM by nismith | 4 Comments

Filed under: business intelligence, Microsoft BI, PerformancePoint 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

BI for the Masses

Here’s more information on the Microsoft business intelligence strategy changes, including the consolidation of capabilities found within Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Enterprise and now branding Read More...

Posted Tuesday, January 27, 2009 6:46 PM by nismith | 1 Comments

Filed under: performance management, Microsoft BI, PerformancePoint Server, SharePoint Server

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

Monitor What Matters Most

Check out this new performance management demo by Bruno Aziza at the recent Microsoft BI conference in Seattle. The demo covers aspects of real-time analytics, enhanced use of data visualization with Microsoft Virtual Earth, connecting information with Read More...

Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 8:01 PM by nismith | 1 Comments

Filed under: Microsoft BI, PerformancePoint Server, Collaboration, data visualization, dashboards, budgeting, planning, Cool demos, analytics, real-time, Microsoft Virtual Earth

Education gets Intelligent with Microsoft BI

I wanted to highlight this great example that really speaks to the concept of BI for the masses. If you have children you have likely had to make a decision about their education, decisions like what school they will go to, what academic goals is the Read More...

Posted Saturday, October 18, 2008 11:11 AM by nismith | 1 Comments

Filed under: business intelligence, performance management, Microsoft BI, SharePoint, PerformancePoint Server, data visualization, BI for the Masses, education, external BI portal, BI demo, knowledge workers, try before you buy, analytics, SQL Server

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

The Next Level of Data Visualization

What do you get when you put Virtual Earth and PerformancePoint Server together? How about a geospatial solution on steroids? Together the two technologies expand what is possible with BI and data visualization and offer a way to monitor performance, Read More...

Posted Friday, April 11, 2008 9:47 PM by nismith | 1 Comments

Filed under: performance management, PerformancePoint Server, data visualization, Virtual Earth, BI Solutions

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PerformancePoint Partner News from Down Under

Down here at the Gartner BI Conference this week, I had the chance to meet up with the folks from B(iQ), the first Microsoft Australian Certified Partner on PerformancePoint Server. Adrian and his gang have gone above and beyond just mere certification, Read More...

Posted Monday, March 17, 2008 10:48 PM by guyweismantel | 1 Comments

Filed under: performance management, PerformancePoint Server, Partners, Books

Microsoft Front and Center at CFO Rising

Just back from the CFO Rising Conference in Orlando this week, where Microsoft was a Gold Sponsor of the event. They had great attendance this year, with over 400 people crowding into the Hilton Walt Disney World to hear a variety of presentations on Read More...

Posted Thursday, March 13, 2008 10:51 AM by guyweismantel | 1 Comments

Filed under: performance management, Microsoft BI, PerformancePoint Server, CFO