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Managing Sustainability Business Issues Research Report

I wanted to share some research on this topic that has just been made available from PricewaterhouseCoopers. The "Corporate Sustainability Reporting in Canada" is a survey of 343 senior financial executives on some of the major issues surrounding corporate Read More...
Posted Friday, March 13, 2009 7:04 PM by nismith | 1 Comments

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

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

Is your Sales Organization Ready for Performance Management?

In times of economic uncertainty sales departments are looked at to step up and defend the organizations profitability, getting accurate up to date details on revenue and the ability to build revenue attainment plans more effectively are key performance Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 16, 2008 6:43 AM by nismith | 1 Comments

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

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

What’s the ROI of Performance Management?

Do you have performance management? If you don’t you are likely talking to some software company about it. What is up with all of this talk about dashboards, scorecards, planning and budgeting tools, data visualization, closed-loop performance management Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2008 9:41 PM by nismith | 0 Comments

Are you a Finance Ninja?

Accenture has been diligently working on some research (since 2004) on the characteristics of top performing finance organizations, labeled the “The Changing Role of the Finance Organization in a Multi-Polar World.” I like the BusinessFinance title of Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:41 AM by nismith | 1 Comments

How do you define Success?

Well, how do you? Success means a number of different things. In life, in relationships, at work... and is it personal success, team success or corporate? Who defines this and more importantly, how do we know we are successful when it happens? Is it that Read More...
Posted Friday, May 30, 2008 5:54 PM by pejmanj | 1 Comments

IT = India Time: BI in Dubai

I had the opportunity to present with our partner KPMG at last week’s Microsoft Executive Series Leadership Conclave (say THAT 10 times fast) in Dubai on our business intelligence and performance management solutions, and how organizations can adopt BI Read More...
Posted Monday, April 28, 2008 12:22 PM by guyweismantel | 1 Comments

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
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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

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

2nd Annual Microsoft BI Conference Dates Announced

Following on the heels of the overwhelming success of last year's inaugural event, the dates for the 2nd annual Microsoft BI conference are firmed up-- get ready to head to Seattle on October 6-8, 2008 for this year's event . Last year we topped 2500 Read More...
Posted Friday, February 01, 2008 1:41 PM by guyweismantel | 0 Comments

Welcome to THE BI Blog

Welcome to what we hope will become the definitive blog on business intelligence, THE BI Blog. Not too huge of a goal or vision, huh? There are already some great blogs out there on all different aspects of business intelligence and performance management--from Read More...
Posted Friday, January 11, 2008 3:52 PM by guyweismantel | 2 Comments
 
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