Partner Training/Readiness Resources

btamblyn — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:41:00 GMT

Here's a wealth of useful online information around training, technical whitepapers, upcoming webcasts and demos. Also note the availability of the quick start PerformancePoint competency beta exam is available through till November 9th.

Online Training

Learn the basics of PerformancePoint Server 2007 through self-directed learning courses, which have been designed to give you a quick start on building your performance management solution. Click here to get started.

PerformancePoint Server MS Beta Exam: Now Available until 9/11/07!

Exam Name = TS: Microsoft(R) Office PerformancePoint™ Server 2007, Applications

Exam Beta Number = 71-556

Prometric Promo Code = TSPPS

Registration Information

You must register at least 24 hours prior to taking the exam.

Please use the following promotional code when registering for the exam: TSPPS

Receiving this invitation does not guarantee you a seat in the beta; we recommend that you register immediately.

To register in North America, please call:

Prometric: (800) 755-EXAM (800-755-3926)

Outside the U.S./Canada, please contact:

Prometric: http://www.register.prometric.com/ClientInformation.asp

Technical Information

The most in-depth technical information about PerformancePoint Server 2007 is located at the PerformancePoint Server 2007 TechCenter on TechNet and the PerformancePoint Server 2007 Developer Center on MSDN.

Webcasts About PerformancePoint Server 2007

View these live and on-demand webcasts to learn more about how the integrated monitoring, analytics, and planning features in Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 can help you manage and improve your organization’s performance. You’ll also discover best practices for scorecards and dashboards and learn how to overcome common challenges.
Each webcast lasts about an hour.

Upcoming

Momentum Webcast: Keeping a Pulse on Your Business with Dashboards and Scorecards (Level 100)
10/29/2007 | Duration: 60 Minutes
Discover how you can use dashboard technology to help enhance decision making and performance in your organization. Learn how you can take advantage of dashboards and scorecards with your existing investments and how their flexibility can accommodate the diverse and growing needs of your organization.

On Demand

TechNet Webcast: Business Intelligence with Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 (Level 300)
2/13/2007 | Duration: 63 Minutes
Find out how Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 can help you improve your organization’s business performance processes. Learn more about how the product successfully integrates monitoring, analytics, and planning into one performance management application.
TechNet Webcast: Performance Management 101 with PerformancePoint Server 2007 (Level 200)
2/2/2007 | Duration: 60 Minutes
Explore the pains that customers commonly experience with performance management. And find out how Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 integrates monitoring, analytics, and planning capabilities in an easy-to-use application that is less costly for you to deploy than traditional solutions.

Business Value White Papers

Gain valuable knowledge about both the business value and the technical features of Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007.

How Intelligence Enterprises Deliver Performance Management
Capgemini: In spite of the billions of dollars invested in information technology, many organizations still struggle to provide a seamless flow of trusted information to their employees.

PerformancePoint Server 2007 and BI Case Studies

Oticon's finance department wanted to improve its key functions and processes, namely financial consolidation, budgeting, planning, forecasting, and reporting with an integrated solution. Oticon made a strategic decision to unify all its Performance Management solutions under Microsoft, its vendor of choice. Oticon’s first priority was to rebuild its system for financial consolidation for monthly, quarterly and year-end reporting. Oticon chose a solution that would satisfy its financial consolidation requirements but also have the ability to integrate all the key finance functions it had previously identified such as budgeting and forecasting. Using Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, Oticon developed a solution that would automatically consolidate financial results from companies while allowing users at both local and enterprise levels to work in Excel, the undisputed tool of choice in finance.

Energizer taps Into the Power of Microsoft Business Intelligence with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007. With numerous sales regions in approximately 20 countries throughout Europe, Energizer needed a comprehensive business intelligence solution that could provide more effective business planning and forecasting abilities. Disparate systems and applications made revenue and profit data prone to error and inconsistencies, while limitations on how information was organized and analyzed made it difficult for Energizer to create accurate business plans and forecasts based on big-picture market trends. A performance management solution based on Microsoft® Office PerformancePoint™ Server 2007, a unified application that enables businesses to improve performance by giving relevant users the ability to monitor, analyze and report their activities as well as plan, budget, and forecast for the future. Using PerformancePoint Server 2007, Energizer built a solution that streamlined the business planning process, improved the quality and consistency of source data, and enabled in-depth and flexible analyses based on various information hierarchies that were not possible in the previous system.

Business Intelligence Demos

Learn more about how Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 can help people at all levels of your organization improve their ability to monitor company information, analyze data, and build plans to drive your business forward.

Introduction to Microsoft Business Intelligence

Get an idea of the broad capabilities of Microsoft Business Intelligence and how it can help you run your business more effectively.

Why Is Business Intelligence Important?

Watch this informative discussion with Bill Baker, PerformancePoint Server 2007 general manager, on the value of the complete Microsoft Business Intelligence and performance management offering.

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SQL Server 2005 BI Training

btamblyn — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:07:29 GMT

Amazingly this has only just become available. Perhaps everyone in the UK understands SQL BI so well that we didn't need to publish training options until 18 months after launch. I know this has been something Emma has been pushing for a while now so it's nice to see it's arrived.

SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence Bootcamp

Dates:

26th Feb: London
19th March: Maidenhead
16th April: Maidenhead

Technorati tags: SQL, SQL Server 2005, Microsoft, Training, Business Intelligence

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