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Business Intelligence is available in BETA!

Finally, what we’ve all been waiting for, today the entire next wave of Microsoft Business Intelligence is available in Beta. Grab yourself a copy of Microsoft Office 2010 beta, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 beta, and SQL Server 2008 R2 CTP3 and try Read More...

Posted Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:50 AM by cwpeng | 0 Comments

Filed under: business intelligence, SharePoint Server 2010, Office 2010, powerpivot, beta

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Sharepoint Conference 2009 - Las Vegas

Overall, we had a GREAT week at the Sharepoint Conference in Las Vegas! It has been encouraging to see the amount of enthusiasm and pent-up demand for BI. Also, lots of activity on Facebook, Twitter, and various blogging channels about our newest announcement Read More...

Posted Monday, October 26, 2009 10:27 AM by cwpeng | 0 Comments

Filed under: business intelligence, powerpivot

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

Filed under: business intelligence, BI, MSFT, Microsoft BI, SharePoint, Excel, MDM, Data Quality, data visualization, Scorecards, data warehousing, SQL Server 2008, What if analysis, Think Bigger about BI, Seattle, Microsoft, Vision, Gemini, self-service, performance metrics, SQL Server, Reporting Services, sales analytics, scorecard, real-time, Self Service BI, Data insight, datasource, Microsoft BI Strategy, SharePoint Server, Usability, PerformancePoint Services, Excel Services, Microsoft Office, productivity tools, intelligence, Microsoft Office System, Futures, productivity, SQL Server Data Services, reporting, people ready BI, data mining, data, data prediction, msdn, community, data storage, data visualization, sharing data, PerformancePoint, SQL Server Pass, excel 2007, SQL Server 2008 R2, SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft Office 2010, Office 2010

PASS Sessions and Speakers Announced!

The Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) has just announced sessions and speakers for PASS Summit 2009 , coming up Nov 2-5, 2009 in Seattle, WA. The full-day Pre/Post-Conference seminar and Spotlight session line ups include some amazing BI Read More...

Posted Friday, June 12, 2009 9:24 PM by kristinakerr | 1 Comments

Filed under: business intelligence, BI Conference, Microsoft BI, Seattle, Microsoft BI Conference, community

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

Sneak Preview of BI at TechEd 2009

Watch an interview with Donald Farmer which gives a sneak preview of some of the things that will be presented at TechEd 2009, May 11-15. This year TechEd will host over 30 sessions related to business intelligence, check out the session list here . Get Read More...

Posted Saturday, April 25, 2009 5:00 AM by nismith | 1 Comments

Filed under: business intelligence, donald farmer, tech Ed 2009

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

The Bird is the Word

Hey everyone, Here is a useful list of some of the communities and social groups for Microsoft BI, out there to get involved. Follow the bird, the bbb-bird bird bird, bird is the word… Twitter feeds Microsoft BI Nic Smith Donald Farmer Guy Weismantel Read More...

Posted Monday, March 30, 2009 8:02 PM by nismith | 1 Comments

Filed under: business intelligence, youtube, the bird is the word, linkedin, discussion forums, msdn, technet, community, twitter

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