Busy Times ... and a Note about my TechEd Sessions

Gabhan Berry — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:04:00 GMT

Busy times at Microsoft has meant that I've been slower than usual in posting recently. My current expectation is to be over my heavy workload by about mid-June. I'll continue to post in the meantime; but at a slower pace.

TechEd is being held in Orlando in June this year. There are a lot of very interesting sessions being held and the key note will be done by Bill Gates. If you can make it, I'd recommend coming along. You can find out more about TechEd here.

I have two speaking slots at this year's show: one in the Developer track and one in the IT Professional track.

In the Developer session I'll be talking about the improvements we made to XLLs in Excel 2007. In the IT Professional session I'll be talking about the Business Intelligence capabilities of Excel 2007 and Excel Services.

Using Statistics in Business Intelligence

Gabhan Berry — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:27:00 GMT

One other area I work in is Business Intelligence. These days BI is an important technology to an increasing number of companies. There are many great BI tools out there, one of which is (of course) Excel.

One of the things that makes Excel such a useful BI tool is its richness of functionality. It has so many existing features that can be used in the BI area - one of which is its statistical analysis functions.

I posted an article over on the Excel team blog illustrating one way we can use Excel's statistical functions to extract useful information from business data.

If you're interested in statistical analysis or BI in Excel, you may find the article interesting. Click here to view the article.

Excel Programming : BI

Busy Times ... and a Note about my TechEd Sessions

Using Statistics in Business Intelligence