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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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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

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

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

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

Microsoft Roadmap for Enterprise Search

Enterprise search and business intelligence are two categories that have been closely linked to one another for some time. As information continues to rapidly grow, so does the need to navigate and make sense of it. Microsoft has disclosed a detailed Read More...

Posted Wednesday, March 04, 2009 3:35 AM by nismith | 1 Comments

Filed under: Microsoft BI, SharePoint Server, Microsoft Office System, FAST Search, Futures, Microsoft Roadmap, Enterprise Search, FAST

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

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