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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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BI update from TechEd 2009

Watch this short video from the TechEd 2009 showroom floor on how we are using mobile business intelligence on a Windows mobile device to track the BI session and speaker performance at this years show. The application is called PushBI developed by a Read More...

Posted Thursday, May 14, 2009 2:03 PM by nismith | 2 Comments

Filed under: business intelligence, Microsoft BI, analytics, SQL Server, performance, mobile BI

Top 10 demos for Microsoft BI

Here’s a collection of some cool Microsoft BI Demos that I use regularly to showcase aspects of the Microsoft BI stack and show interesting examples of what insight to information can actually accomplish. Top 10 demos for Microsoft BI 10. Sales Dashboard Read More...

Posted Thursday, April 23, 2009 9:01 PM by nismith | 4 Comments

Filed under: Microsoft BI, Virtual Earth, Surface, Gemini, SQL Server, sustainability, Self Service BI, data visualization, demos, geo spatial analysis

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

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

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

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

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