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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>LUTI @ Microsoft : BI</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/archive/tags/BI/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: BI</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Anúncio da Microsoft sobre BI – PerformancePoint =&gt; Sharepoint</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/archive/2009/01/28/an-ncio-da-microsoft-sobre-bi-performancepoint-sharepoint.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:57:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9381347</guid><dc:creator>Luciano Caixeta Moreira</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/comments/9381347.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/commentrss.aspx?PostID=9381347</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P&gt;Quem anda antenado no mundo de BI sabe que a Microsoft fez um anúncio recente a respeito do roadmap para o PerformancePoint. Para quem não viu, vale a pena dar uma olhada…&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A title=http://www.microsoft.com/bi/ href="http://www.microsoft.com/bi/" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/bi/"&gt;http://www.microsoft.com/bi/&lt;/A&gt; (página principal de BI da Microsoft) &lt;BR&gt;&lt;A title=http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/jan09/01-27KurtDelbeneQA.mspx href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/jan09/01-27KurtDelbeneQA.mspx" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/jan09/01-27KurtDelbeneQA.mspx"&gt;http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/jan09/01-27KurtDelbeneQA.mspx&lt;/A&gt; (Q&amp;amp;A) &lt;BR&gt;&lt;A title=http://www.intelligententerprise.com/channels/performance_management/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=4WHQJIB1BOLBAQSNDLPCKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=212902660 href="http://www.intelligententerprise.com/channels/performance_management/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=4WHQJIB1BOLBAQSNDLPCKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=212902660" mce_href="http://www.intelligententerprise.com/channels/performance_management/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=4WHQJIB1BOLBAQSNDLPCKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=212902660"&gt;http://www.intelligententerprise.com/channels/performance_management/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=4WHQJIB1BOLBAQSNDLPCKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=212902660&lt;/A&gt; (uma boa matéria) &lt;BR&gt;Vale a pena ver esse vídeo, bem direto, claro e mostra o valor da mudança: &lt;A title=http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/E/E/AEEE26CB-1536-4EC9-809E-536F6E49A1BB/Guy_Weismantel_BI_Announcement_MBR.wmv href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/E/E/AEEE26CB-1536-4EC9-809E-536F6E49A1BB/Guy_Weismantel_BI_Announcement_MBR.wmv" mce_href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/E/E/AEEE26CB-1536-4EC9-809E-536F6E49A1BB/Guy_Weismantel_BI_Announcement_MBR.wmv"&gt;http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/E/E/AEEE26CB-1536-4EC9-809E-536F6E49A1BB/Guy_Weismantel_BI_Announcement_MBR.wmv&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;O que eu penso disso… Particularmente, eu acho o anúncio fantástico!&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Eu sempre encarei o PerformancePoint como um produto interessante, mas com algumas capacidades bem específicas que exigem mais cuidado da implementação, além de ser um produto separado, que necessita de uma nova licença. O que acontecia muitas vezes? As empresas iam avançando na implementação da sua solução de BI, usando o excelente valor agregado que nós oferecemos, mas quando era necessário dar o próximo passo na direção do PPS (PerformancePoint Server), o projeto era colocado de lado e outras funcionalidades acabavam entrando na frente da fila.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Com a mudança dos planos anunciado pela Microsoft, as capacidades analíticas do PPS, como dashborad e scorecards, serão incluídos no Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server Enterprise! Isto é, aquele que já possui o MOSS rodando na empresa, vai poder usufruir desses recursos que antes somente estava disponível no PPS. De quebra, essa integração também vai continuar tocando o Excel lá na ponta, ajudando a materializar o que a Microsoft chama de “&lt;EM&gt;BI to the masses&lt;/EM&gt;” –&amp;gt; BI para o povão! ;-) aeeeeeeee.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;É claro que essa notícia vai impactar aqueles que já estão trabalhando com o PPS, por isso a empresa ainda vai soltar mais um Service Pack em meados de 2009, suportando aqueles que estão utilizando-o. Mas eu acredito que, passado o momento de maior clarificação do roadmap e adequação do ambiente, os benefícios serão maiores que os impactos.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Novamente, fica aqui uma dica para 2009! Sharepoint é o produto que cresceu mais rápido na história da Microsoft e vem sendo colocado como fundação para uma série de outros produtos. Então é necessário que haja pessoal qualificado, que entenda o funcionamento do Sharepoint e possa otimizar os ambientes para receber a solução completa, além de ajudar na resolução de problemas, se necessário.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;E você, o que achou?&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;[]s &lt;BR&gt;Luciano Caixeta Moreira &lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href="mailto:luciano.moreira@microsoft.com" mce_href="mailto:luciano.moreira@microsoft.com"&gt;luciano.moreira@microsoft.com&lt;/A&gt; &lt;BR&gt;=============================================== &lt;BR&gt;This post is provided "AS IS" and confers no right &lt;BR&gt;===============================================&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9381347" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/archive/tags/BI/default.aspx">BI</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/archive/tags/Sharepoint/default.aspx">Sharepoint</category></item><item><title>MBIC Third Day [General Session]</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/archive/2008/10/08/mbic-third-day-general-session.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:35:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8991735</guid><dc:creator>Luciano Caixeta Moreira</dc:creator><slash:comments>3</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/comments/8991735.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/commentrss.aspx?PostID=8991735</wfw:commentRss><description>
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&lt;P&gt;Last day of Microsoft BI Conference... :-(&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;In the general session we had a session where Microsoft shared with us part of their vision to the next years. Some of the message we have already heard during the event, but if we can put it in five pillars, here they are:&lt;/P&gt;- Growing richness of excel model &lt;BR&gt;- Notion of pervasive connection to data &lt;BR&gt;- Self service business intelligence &lt;BR&gt;- Integrating business process into performance management &lt;BR&gt;- Focus on the Office client as a BI application &lt;BR&gt;
&lt;P style="DISPLAY: block"&gt;One thing that drove everyone attention was an example of BI delivered easily, using.... SURFACE. It was an example on how to use Microsoft Surface to show a live map integrated with information about energy and water consumption in the buildings at Seattle downtown (drawing it over the buildings, integrated with an eagle's eye view of the city). If you click in a particular building you could see information about the water quality and compare it to nearby cities or other states. Really, really amazing, BI made easy at the tips of your finger. User experience in a new level!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;(A ser traduzido... Ajuda?)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;P&gt;[]s &lt;BR&gt;Luciano Caixeta Moreira &lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href="mailto:luciano.moreira@microsoft.com" mce_href="mailto:luciano.moreira@microsoft.com"&gt;luciano.moreira@microsoft.com&lt;/A&gt; &lt;BR&gt;=============================================== &lt;BR&gt;This post is provided "AS IS" and confers no right &lt;BR&gt;===============================================&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8991735" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/archive/tags/SQL+Server/default.aspx">SQL Server</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/archive/tags/Eventos/default.aspx">Eventos</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/archive/tags/BI/default.aspx">BI</category></item><item><title>MBIC Second Day [Other sessions]</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/archive/2008/10/08/mbic-second-day-other-sessions.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:14:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8991714</guid><dc:creator>Luciano Caixeta Moreira</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/comments/8991714.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/commentrss.aspx?PostID=8991714</wfw:commentRss><description>
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&lt;P&gt;Yesterday I saw four more presentation besides the general session, they were:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;- Mastering Master Data Management &lt;BR&gt;- Microsoft is Making a Difference At Schumacher Group (Hitachi) &lt;BR&gt;- SSIS Best Practices &lt;BR&gt;- Populating a Kimbal method DW with SQL Server &amp;amp; SSIS 2008&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Here are some takeaways that I can point to you...&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I have been in some sessions related to MDM in the past two years and sincerely, they weren't very good or clear. Besides the fact that I have matured in the past years, I really enjoyed a presentation about this subject for the first time. The first presenter, a veteran in IT, showed clearly what MDM is supposed to be, how the organization should look at it and the many ways to think about it and how to get there. &lt;BR&gt;The second presenter talked a little about SHAREPOINT MASTER DATA SERVICES! Yes, your heard correct, they are working in a way to make MDM easier and feasible, all integrated with Sharepoint. We couldn't see any public demonstration about it, but the aspects highlighted were really cool. This is one area that will evolve much in the next years, changing not only our OLAP systems, but OLTP too (this is a common misconception). Stay tuned and read about it.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The presentation about Schumacher group was interesting to see a real example on how BI can help to accelerate decision making and helping people's lives.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Kimbal method and SSIS session: this presentation was good for me to remember some of the Kimball concepts when I read two books written by him, almost four years ago. During the presentation, Joy Mundy showed us how do an effective ETL with SSIS, highlighting some caveats that we may find along the way and how to avoid it. A nice session filled with real world experience.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;SSIS Best Practices - This was an excellent presentation with deep technical content. I actually took a bunch of notes that I'll post here, hope you enjoy. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;NOTE:&lt;/STRONG&gt; this is a list of unorganized topics, if you read, try to pick something that makes sense to you. :-)&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Measure twice - cut once&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Understand your system&lt;/P&gt;&lt;FONT color=black&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;CPU, Network, Memory, I/O and network &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;In memory pipeline 
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Do not want to the file system - touch in the extract and in the load &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;SQLIO / Severe optimized the IO to get the record / how spindles map to LUN &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Measure the extract speed of the source 
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Better drivers, driver configuration, I/O and network utilization &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Understand limits early in design &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Speed per connection (use integration services log) 
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Rows / sec = row count / Time &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Use multiple NICs (pain) &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;If possible, measure both at source and execution &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Baseline the package&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;CPU (DTExec / SQLServr) &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;SSIS Pipeline \ buffers spooled (tell whenever a memory buffer has to be spooled to disk!) 
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Keep it at zero! &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;SSIS Temp Folder &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Partition the data to never see 1 in the buffers spooled (12 million instead of 20 millions, for example) &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;SSIS assumes transformations fit in memory! &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;How CPU is distributed? &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Tuning the data flow&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Optimize Data Source 
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;NOLOCK, minimize columns &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Optimize lookup transformation (builds a hash table in memory) 
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Use the query to control the data returned (no Select *), NOLOCK &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Shared Lookup Cache (build the hash table only once) &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Large Lookup (other options) &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Network tuning 
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Increase the packet size (4K) to 32767 &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Enable Jumbo Frames in the network (5000 to 9000) &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;32 MB/S to 46 MB/S &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Shared memory vs TCP/IP &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Win 2008 - Network affinity &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Data types 
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Narrow, avoid casting (conversions in the SQL statements), watch precision issues &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;The many benefits of money (from double to currency, it's faster) &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Memory, CPU alignment issues (work with precision) &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Optimize SQL Targets 
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;OleDB destination (IS on the same box) &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Heap insert is typically faster than cluster index 
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Use heap in staging &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Use partitions and SWITCH &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Commit size is 0 (if not possible, use highest possible) &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Change the design 
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Don't sort in SSIS &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Sometimes T-SQL is better (set based update instead oledb row by row) 
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Large Aggregations (group by/sum) &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Use new MERGE statement &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Delta Detection 
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Rule of thumb - Delta &amp;gt; 10% =&amp;gt; reload &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Do minimally logged operations if possible 
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Data flow in bulk mode? &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;TRUNCATION instead of delete &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Avoid buffer copies 
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;The width of a row determines the size of the buffer? 
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Smaller rows, more in memory &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Memory copies are expensive 
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Pointer magic &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Multicast - instead of doing a full copy, just put the changed value in the other table 
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Multicast followed by a row transformation (bad - will make a copy) / Change the order, good &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Transforms and buffers 
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Row based (buffer reused) - sync &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Partially blocking (merge, merge join, union all) (data copy to new buffers) - async &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Blocking (data copied to new buffers) (aggregate, sort, pivot, unpivot -&amp;gt; do in the database) 
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Can be used with a small sampling (cool) &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;DESIGN FOR PARALLELISM&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Tenets of scalable computing 
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Partition the problem &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Eliminate the need for common resources (stateless design) &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Schedule and distribute it correctly &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Partition the problem 
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Hash partitions for modulo on identity(1,1) &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Range partitions &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Eliminate common resources 
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Don't land all connections on same NUMA Node &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Schedule it correctly &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;(A ser traduzido... Ajuda?)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;P&gt;[]s &lt;BR&gt;Luciano Caixeta Moreira &lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href="mailto:luciano.moreira@microsoft.com" mce_href="mailto:luciano.moreira@microsoft.com"&gt;luciano.moreira@microsoft.com&lt;/A&gt; &lt;BR&gt;=============================================== &lt;BR&gt;This post is provided "AS IS" and confers no right &lt;BR&gt;===============================================&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8991714" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/archive/tags/SQL+Server/default.aspx">SQL Server</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/archive/tags/Eventos/default.aspx">Eventos</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/archive/tags/BI/default.aspx">BI</category></item><item><title>MBIC Second Day [General Session]</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/archive/2008/10/07/mbic-second-day-general-session.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:32:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8987743</guid><dc:creator>Luciano Caixeta Moreira</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/comments/8987743.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/commentrss.aspx?PostID=8987743</wfw:commentRss><description>
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&lt;P&gt;Today I saw a general session with Ben Stein (famous American character), his presentation was funny, critical and at some points, emotive, with almost nothing related to BI and in many aspect US centric. But since we're thinking out of the box, it was a valid session. After the presentation one thought that stroke me was: gosh, I can use BI to help solve many problems he stated. The technology is here, why we aren't using it for our own good? Think about that...&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;After the presentation we had a round table with employees from Accenture, Dell, HP, Hitachi and Profitbase, discussing many BI aspects. Some points that I like hearing were:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;BI FUTURE&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;- We're ready to the amount of that that will need to get managed? Technology is evolving, but our data management and technical folks are following it? &lt;BR&gt;- Even more we'll see social aspects integrated with BI. &lt;BR&gt;- BI will be delivered to any device and at real time. &lt;BR&gt;- More business visibility (we don't know what the analyst doesn't know). How to uncover new business information that we aren't noticing?&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;SKILLS AND GAPS (how the IT professionals can get ready?)&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;- Do not keep listen to old phrases about BI, like "BI projects are huge and very very expensive". We can make it an incremental project, prove it's value and keep evolving over time! &lt;BR&gt;- There's emerging a new role - from data architect to information architect. A person even more knowledgeable about the business, systems and how they interact, not just a tool/modeling guy. &lt;BR&gt;- Stop looking to BI as an extra, a hobby. It requires a specialized team, in sync with all the company, with a clear career path and a list of discrete projects, not a huge BI has-it-all project. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;CLOUD BI&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;- Very disruptive model that raises many questions: intellectual property, security, what to use (processing or storage, or both) &lt;BR&gt;- Roughly 75% of people doesn't have access to BI - the cloud is an enormous opportunity to reach those people &lt;BR&gt;- Just because the technology is available and we can, does it mean that we should? &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Some mine observations...&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;- I really hate using my cell phone to manage information, it's tiny and slows me back. How we can make it feasible for a regular end user (not a gadget addict). &lt;BR&gt;- As expected, TI continues to do and later understand. We need to change the way things work and look out for new opportunities in this market. Geeks with people skills that understand the business need and how to address those gaps will have a high impact and probably, a high salary. &lt;BR&gt;- We are learning how to use SQL Server Data Services and his ACE model, so soon we'll have a lot of data stored there from many companies (small and medium - my guess) working from different verticals. Why not having someone specialized in one specific area that knows how to speak the business language and transform the data in the cloud in valuable information?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;(Obrigado ao Fabiano Neves pela tradução!)&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR" lang=PT-BR&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman"&gt;Hoje eu vi uma sessão geral com o Ben Stein (famoso personagem americano), sua apresentação foi engraçada, critica em alguns pontos, emotiva, quase nada relacionado a BI e em muitos aspectos focado nos&amp;nbsp;americanos. Mas uma vez que estamos pensando “fora da caixa”, foi uma sessão válida. Depois da apresentação o pensamento que ficou foi: Ora essa, eu posso usar BI para ajudar a resolver muitos dos problemas que ele destacou. A tecnologia está ai, porque então não usar para nosso bem? Pense nisso... &lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR" lang=PT-BR&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman"&gt;Depois da apresentação nós tivemos uma mesa redonda com o pessoal da Accenture, Dell, HP, Hitachi e Profitbase onde discutimos vários conceitos de BI.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR" lang=PT-BR&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman"&gt;Alguns pontos que eu gostei de ouvir foram:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR" lang=PT-BR&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR" lang=PT-BR&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman"&gt;Futuro do BI&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR" lang=PT-BR&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR" lang=PT-BR&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman"&gt;- Nós estamos prontos para suportar a quantidade de mão de obra que isso irá demandar? A tecnologia está evoluindo, mas o nosso gerenciamento de dados e pessoal técnico está evoluindo também?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR" lang=PT-BR&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman"&gt;- Veremos ainda mais os aspectos sociais integrados com o BI.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR" lang=PT-BR&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman"&gt;- BI será disponibilizado para qualquer equipamento e em tempo real.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR" lang=PT-BR&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman"&gt;- Maior visibilidade de negócio (nós não sabemos o que os analistas não sabem). Como descobrir&amp;nbsp;novas características&amp;nbsp;de negócio que ainda não nos foram apresentadas?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR" lang=PT-BR&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR" lang=PT-BR&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman"&gt;Habilidades e Lacunas (como os profissionais de TI podem se preparar?)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR" lang=PT-BR&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR" lang=PT-BR&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman"&gt;- Não fique dando ouvidos a frases antigas sobre BI, como “Projetos de BI são difíceis e muito, muito caro”. Nós podemos fazer um projeto incremental, provar seu valor e&amp;nbsp;evoluirmos ao longo do tempo.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR" lang=PT-BR&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman"&gt;- Há um novo papel nascendo,&amp;nbsp;do arquiteto de dados para o&amp;nbsp;arquiteto de informação. Uma pessoa que tem ainda mais conhecimento sobre negócio, sistemas e como interagir com eles, não é mais apenas&amp;nbsp;um cara&amp;nbsp;que modela e&amp;nbsp;sabe usar&amp;nbsp;a ferramenta.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR" lang=PT-BR&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman"&gt;- Pare de olhar para BI como um hobby extra. Isso requer um time especializado, que esteja em sincronia com toda a empresa, com um claro plano de carreira e uma lista de projetos distintos, não um enorme BI que engloba tudo dentro de um único projeto.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR" lang=PT-BR&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR" lang=PT-BR&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman"&gt;Nuvem de BI&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR" lang=PT-BR&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR" lang=PT-BR&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman"&gt;- Um modelo bastante&amp;nbsp;complexo que cria várias questões como: Propriedade Intelectual, segurança, o que usar (processamento,&amp;nbsp;storage, ou os dois)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR" lang=PT-BR&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman"&gt;- A grosso modo 75% das pessoas não tem acesso ao BI -&amp;nbsp;a nuvem têm a chance de atingir essas pessoas.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR" lang=PT-BR&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman"&gt;- Somente porque a tecnologia está disponível e nós podemos fazer isso, significa que devemos fazer? &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR" lang=PT-BR&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR" lang=PT-BR&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman"&gt;Algumas observações pessoais:&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR" lang=PT-BR&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR" lang=PT-BR&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman"&gt;- Eu realmente&amp;nbsp;não gosto de&amp;nbsp;usar meu celular para gerenciar ou conseguir uma informação, ele é muito pequeno e me faz ser lento. Como nós podemos fazer isso se tornar mais prático para o usuário final. (Não para um viciado em&amp;nbsp;gadgets).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR" lang=PT-BR&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman"&gt;- Como esperado, TI continua fazendo para depois entender. Nós precisamos mudar o modo como as coisas funcionam, olhar para novas oportunidades no mercado. Geeks com habilidade de trabalhar com pessoas&amp;nbsp;para entender o que o negócio está precisando e como ajudar a preencher essas lacunas, causarão um grande impacto e provavelmente terão um alto salário.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR" lang=PT-BR&gt;&lt;FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"&gt;- Nós estamos aprendendo como usar SQL Server Data Services e seu modelo ACE, portanto em breve todos nós teremos um monte de dados de várias companhias&amp;nbsp;armazenados&amp;nbsp;(pequenas e médias – no meu ponto de vista) trabalhando em diferentes verticais. Porque não ter alguém especializado em uma área específica e com conhecimento de como falar uma linguagem de negócio e transformar os dados da nuvem em um informação valiosa?&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR" lang=PT-BR&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;[]s &lt;BR&gt;Luciano Caixeta Moreira &lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href="mailto:luciano.moreira@microsoft.com" mce_href="mailto:luciano.moreira@microsoft.com"&gt;luciano.moreira@microsoft.com&lt;/A&gt; &lt;BR&gt;=============================================== &lt;BR&gt;This post is provided "AS IS" and confers no right &lt;BR&gt;===============================================&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8987743" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/archive/tags/SQL+Server/default.aspx">SQL Server</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/archive/tags/Eventos/default.aspx">Eventos</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/archive/tags/BI/default.aspx">BI</category></item><item><title>MBIC First Day [Other sessions]</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/archive/2008/10/07/mbic-first-day-other-sessions.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:30:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8986827</guid><dc:creator>Luciano Caixeta Moreira</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/comments/8986827.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/commentrss.aspx?PostID=8986827</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"&gt;


 
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} &lt;/script&gt;&lt;a href="javascript:showDiv('PostMBIC0102_', 'P')"&gt;(Portugu&amp;#234;s)&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="javascript:showDiv('PostMBIC0102_', 'E')"&gt;(English)&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;div style="display: none" id="PostMBIC0102_E"&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;After the general session I had the opportunity to check out four other sessions, unfortunately all the chalk-talk sessions during the lunch were full and a lot of people got frustrated by not participating. I think that the organization underestimated the geek side of the audience, why lunch if I have session to attend?! :-)&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;This years conference motto is &amp;quot;Think Bigger About BI&amp;quot;. I'm really enjoying seeing it, because some sessions put BI in a different perspective and make people think out of the box, which is a nice thing. We are currently seeing this happen in web 2.0, S+S and other areas, why not BI?&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;The sessions I attended where:      &lt;br /&gt;- BI: Emerging trends and technologies       &lt;br /&gt;- XXXXXX - This was a lousy session, so I won't talk about it. The best moment of the presentation was when the projector BBBBUUUMMM and a smoke went out of it. I think that not even the lamp could stand the presentation...       &lt;br /&gt;- Integrating Predictive Analysis Throughout the Data Lifecycle       &lt;br /&gt;- Plotting your strategic course for performance management&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Notice that I attended two Business Value sessions, with business analysts, and I don't regret one second about that decisions, because both presentations were great. Here are some cool takeaways from the sessions that I want to point out...&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;- We have some ways to adopt BI: strategy driven (thru business KPIs), analyst driven (accurate daily decisions - not just strategic ones) and process driven (internal process and maturity efficiency).      &lt;br /&gt;- BI and Search: different, but can become highly interconnected       &lt;br /&gt;- Interactive Data Visualization: we need to find a better way to show the data, not complex graphics and structures -&amp;gt; USER EXPERIENCE!       &lt;br /&gt;- Go beyond traditional BI: speech and text analytics. Why not go mining other kinds of unstructured data?       &lt;br /&gt;- Integrate business updates in the process of decisions easily and continuously. Why I have to wait three weeks to change our system and react to a market condition, putting a new rule in my business? I need a way to make this easier to our business analysts.       &lt;br /&gt;- BI as a Service! I loved this one, a new approach to BI with a lot of challenges, but still feasible and can be exploited by some companies that already offer online services, for example.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;- Performance management is a key point to every organization today. Is your organization doing that? How mature you are when it comes to BI?      &lt;br /&gt;- We have a lot of ?PM (? = Operations; Enterprise; Corporate; etc.)&amp;#160; &lt;br /&gt;- Maturity models: &lt;em&gt;reacting; anticipating; collaborating; orchestrating;&lt;/em&gt; With the evolution, your company will change from technology to culture/philosophy focus, from inside out BI to outside in BI (working with partners in your ecosystem).       &lt;br /&gt;- BI continues to #1 in the investment list of CIOs in the coming years. BUT, we have a interesting shift: in the last 5 years the principal area of investment was dashboards and scorecards, but in 2008 this changed to &lt;strong&gt;Integrate analytics with your applications.&lt;/strong&gt; This is very important, people don't want to be using N tools and integrate them by themselves, they want the application to gather info and present that in one place! Developers and DBAs, work together!       &lt;br /&gt;- The top 5 BI challenges are related to two aspects: DATA (management, access and quality) and IT STAFF (backlog, limited resources and &lt;em&gt;lack of trained people&lt;/em&gt;)       &lt;br /&gt;- BI that goes beyond your company limits is a tendency. Why not use your BI to show your partners and suppliers how they can better attend your demand?&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;The purpose of this list is not present a consistent information for your study, but to list some points that you can explore by yourself and, of course, make you think out of the box.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p style="display: block"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div style="display: block" id="PostMBIC0102_P"&gt;   &lt;p style="display: block"&gt;Depois da general session eu tive a oportunidade de ver outras quatro sess&amp;#245;es, infelizmente as mesas redondas durante o almo&amp;#231;o estavam cheias e muitas pessoas ficaram frustradas por n&amp;#227;o participar. Eu acho que a organiza&amp;#231;&amp;#227;o do evento subestimou o lado geek do p&amp;#250;blico, porque almo&amp;#231;ar se eu tenho uma sess&amp;#227;o para assistir? :-)&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="display: block"&gt;Nesse ano o lema da confer&amp;#234;ncia &amp;#233; &amp;quot;Think Bigger About BI&amp;quot;. Eu realmente estou gostando de ver isso, pois algumas sess&amp;#245;es colocam o BI em uma diferente perspectiva e faz as pessoas pensarem fora da caixa, o que &amp;#233; uma coisa bacana. N&amp;#243;s estamos vendo isso acontecer na Web 2.0, S+S e outras &amp;#225;reas, porque n&amp;#227;o com BI?&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="display: block"&gt;As sess&amp;#245;es que eu assisti foram:&lt;/p&gt; - BI: Emerging trends and technologies     &lt;br /&gt;- XXXXXX - Essa foi uma sess&amp;#227;o ruim, ent&amp;#227;o n&amp;#227;o vou coment&amp;#225;-la. O melhor momento da apresenta&amp;#231;&amp;#227;o foi quando o projetor fez BBBBUUUUMMMM e uma fuma&amp;#231;a saiu dele. Eu acho que a l&amp;#226;mpada n&amp;#227;o aguentou a apresenta&amp;#231;&amp;#227;o...     &lt;br /&gt;- Integrating Predictive Analysis Throughout the Data Lifecycle     &lt;br /&gt;- Plotting your strategic course for performance management     &lt;p&gt;Notem que eu assisti a duas sess&amp;#245;es sobre valor do neg&amp;#243;cio, com analistas de neg&amp;#243;cio, e eu n&amp;#227;o me arrependo nem um segundo de ter tomado essas decis&amp;#227;o, pois as sess&amp;#245;es foram &amp;#243;timas. Aqui est&amp;#227;o alguns pontos que vi nas sess&amp;#245;es e quero ressaltar...&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;- N&amp;#243;s temos algumas maneiras de adotar BI: dirigido por estrat&amp;#233;gia (atrav&amp;#233;s de KPIs do neg&amp;#243;cio), dirigido por analistas (tomas decis&amp;#245;es certeiras diariamente, e n&amp;#227;o somente no n&amp;#237;vel estrat&amp;#233;gico) e dirigido por processos (processos internos e efici&amp;#234;ncia)      &lt;br /&gt;- BI e pesquisa: diferentes, mas podem se tornar muito conectados.       &lt;br /&gt;- Visualiza&amp;#231;&amp;#227;o de dados interativas: nos precisamos encontrar uma maneira melhor de apresentar os dados, n&amp;#227;o estruturas e gr&amp;#225;ficos complexos -&amp;gt; EXPERI&amp;#202;NCIA DO USU&amp;#193;RIO.       &lt;br /&gt;- Ir al&amp;#233;m do BI tradicional: an&amp;#225;lise de texto e voz. Porque n&amp;#227;o minerar outros tipos de dados n&amp;#227;o-estruturados?       &lt;br /&gt;- Integrar atualiza&amp;#231;&amp;#227;o da intelig&amp;#234;ncia do neg&amp;#243;cio de maneira f&amp;#225;cil e cont&amp;#237;nua. Porque eu tenho que esperar tr&amp;#234;s semanas para alterar um sistema e reagir a uma nova condi&amp;#231;&amp;#227;o do mercado, colocando uma nova regra de neg&amp;#243;cio? Eu quero uma maneira f&amp;#225;cil de oferecer isso aos analistas de neg&amp;#243;cio.       &lt;br /&gt;- BI como um servi&amp;#231;o! Eu adorei esse aqui, uma nova abordagem com muitos desafios, mas ainda poss&amp;#237;vel e pode ser explorado por algumas empresas que j&amp;#225; oferecem servi&amp;#231;os online, por exemplo.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;- Gerenciamento de performance &amp;#233; um ponto chave para toda organiza&amp;#231;&amp;#227;o hoje em dia. Sua organiza&amp;#231;&amp;#227;o est&amp;#225; fazendo isso? Qu&amp;#227;o matura ela est&amp;#225; quando falamos de BI?      &lt;br /&gt;- N&amp;#243;s temos muitos tipos de ?PM (? = Operations; Enterprise; Corporate; etc.)       &lt;br /&gt;- Modelos de maturidade: reagindo; antecipando; colaborando; orquestrando; Com a evolu&amp;#231;&amp;#227;o, sua empresa vai mudar o foco de tecnologia para cultura/filosofia, de um BI de dentro para fora para um BI de fora para dentro (trabalhando com parceiros em todo ecossistema)       &lt;br /&gt;- BI continua sendo o n&amp;#250;mero um em investimento dos CIOs para os pr&amp;#243;ximos anos. MAS, n&amp;#243;s tivemos uma mudan&amp;#231;a interessante: nos &amp;#250;ltimos cinco anos o principal investimento eram dashboards e scorecards, mas em 2008 isso mudou para &lt;strong&gt;integrar aspectos anal&amp;#237;ticos nas aplica&amp;#231;&amp;#245;es.&lt;/strong&gt; Isso &amp;#233; muito importante, as pessoas n&amp;#227;o querem usar N ferramentas e as integrar por si s&amp;#243;, querem que a aplica&amp;#231;&amp;#227;o busque a informa&amp;#231;&amp;#227;o e a apresente em um s&amp;#243; lugar! Desenvolvedores e DBAs, trabalhando junto!       &lt;br /&gt;- Os 5 maiores desafios de BI est&amp;#227;o relacionados com dois aspectos: DADOS (gerenciamento, acesso e qualidade) e EQUIPE DE TI (trabalho acumulado, recursos limitados e falta de pessoas treinadas).       &lt;br /&gt;- BI que vai al&amp;#233;m dos limites da empresa &amp;#233; uma tend&amp;#234;ncia. Porque n&amp;#227;o utilizar BI para mostrar a seus parceiros e fornecedores como eles podem melhorar para atender sua demanda?&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;O objetivo desta lista n&amp;#227;o &amp;#233; apresentar uma lista consistente de informa&amp;#231;&amp;#245;es para seu estudo, mas para listar alguns pontos que voc&amp;#234; pode come&amp;#231;ar a explorar sozinho e, &amp;#233; claro, pensar fora da caixa.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;[]s    &lt;br /&gt;Luciano Caixeta Moreira     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:luciano.moreira@microsoft.com"&gt;luciano.moreira@microsoft.com&lt;/a&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;===============================================     &lt;br /&gt;This post is provided &amp;quot;AS IS&amp;quot; and confers no right     &lt;br /&gt;===============================================&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8986827" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/archive/tags/SQL+Server/default.aspx">SQL Server</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/archive/tags/Eventos/default.aspx">Eventos</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/archive/tags/BI/default.aspx">BI</category></item><item><title>MBIC First Day [General Session]</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/archive/2008/10/06/mbic-first-day-general-session.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:35:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8978822</guid><dc:creator>Luciano Caixeta Moreira</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/comments/8978822.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/commentrss.aspx?PostID=8978822</wfw:commentRss><description>
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&lt;P&gt;This conference is similar to TechEd, where we have a list with breakout sessions, chalk-talks and labs.&amp;nbsp;Then you choose what you want to see and shows up in the room to&amp;nbsp;hear the speaker talking. During&amp;nbsp;this day I'll&amp;nbsp;participating in many sessions and will put here some of the interesting stuff. So let's begin at the beginning.&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;General Session&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;At the event opening some "mighty"&amp;nbsp;Microsoft BI&amp;nbsp;employees presented part of the Microsoft vision for the BI segment. I enjoyed seeing both presentations, coming from people recently&amp;nbsp;hired by Microsoft (judging by what I saw, carefully selected). One thing that drove my attention was: both&amp;nbsp;commented that during the interview they got impressed by the Microsoft's BI vision, so If two veterans in the area (competition at that time) get amazed, we can expect a lot. Now some stuff that I found interesting:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;* &lt;EM&gt;BI Democratization&lt;/EM&gt;.&lt;BR&gt;If we ask in a company who benefits from current BI systems, we'll have an answer around 10% and 20% of the employees. If we ask how many could be beneficed from the BI, the answer will vary between 90% and 95%. Why this difference is so big? We need to go thru a process of democratization of the business intelligence, then it will be able to help all, not just managers and directors.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;*&amp;nbsp; &lt;EM&gt;Projects Kilimanjaro e Madison&lt;/EM&gt; (codename): the first is devoted to manipulation of high volumes of data (millions of giga/terabytes) and integration with DatAllegro. In a demonstration was possible to see many machines working independently over a big&amp;nbsp;partitioned amount of data, answering a gigantic query in seconds (note: there was a instruction to clear the cache before execution). Scale-out, share nothing architecture, beautiful.&lt;BR&gt;The second is focused in analysis and reporting self-service (going beyond what we have today with report models, for instance), that will empower the user (what we call people ready BI). Another thing that drove my attention was the Gemini (part of Kilimanjaro), where more than 23 million records where manipulated in memory (quick, very quick) using a "conventional" machine (with 8GB of RAM), but yet possible in a few years.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;What I think is most important when we talk about BI at Microsoft is the value of the whole platform. We see Excel, SQL Server, Sharepoint and Performance point, working together in a integrated way and generating an huge value for those who explore all their potential.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;More information? There is more people blogging... &lt;A title=http://sqlblog.com/blogs/marco_russo/archive/2008/10/06/microsoft-bi-conference-2008-announcements-on-stage.aspx href="http://sqlblog.com/blogs/marco_russo/archive/2008/10/06/microsoft-bi-conference-2008-announcements-on-stage.aspx"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#669966&gt;http://sqlblog.com/blogs/marco_russo/archive/2008/10/06/microsoft-bi-conference-2008-announcements-on-stage.aspx&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;A conferência é semelhante ao nosso TechEd, onde temos uma grade de palestras, mesas redondas e laboratórios. Aí você escolhe o que quer assistir e aparece na sala para ouvir o palestrante. Durante o dia de hoje eu vou participar de várias sessões e colocar aqui algumas coisa que eu acho interessante, então vamos começar do início.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;General session&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Na abertura do evento o pessoal do alto-escalão da área apresentou parte da visão da Microsoft para o segmento de BI. Gostei das duas apresentações, vindo de pessoas que foram contratadas pela Microsoft (a julgar pelo que vi, foram escolhidos a dedo) e se juntaram ao time não muito tempo atrás. Uma coisa que me chamou a atenção foi: ambas comentaram que durante as entrevistas ficaram impressionados com o que a Microsoft têm como visão para BI, então acredito que se veteranos da área (concorrentes na época) ficaram impressionados, podemos esperar muita coisa boa. Algumas coisas que achei interessante compartilhar...&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;* &lt;EM&gt;Democratização do BI&lt;/EM&gt;. &lt;BR&gt;Se perguntarmos a uma empresa quem se beneficia dos sistemas de BI atuais, vamos ter como resposta entre 10% e 20% dos funcionários. Se perguntarmos quantos poderiam se beneficiar de BI, a resposta será entre 90% e 95%. Porque existe essa diferença tão grande? Precisamos passar por um processo de democratização da inteligência do negócio, para que possa ajudar todos e não somente os diretores e gerentes.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;*&amp;nbsp; &lt;EM&gt;Projetos Kilimanjaro e Madison&lt;/EM&gt; (codinomes): o primeiro voltado para a manipulação de volumes gigantescos de dados (milhares de giga/terabytes) e integração com a recém aquisição da Microsoft (DatAllegro). Em uma demonstração foi possível ver diversas máquinas trabalhando independentemente sobre uma massa de dados particionada, respondendo uma consulta gigantesca em segundos (nota: a instrução mandava limpar todo o cache antes de ser executada). Scale-out e arquitetura share-nothing funcionando, lindo! &lt;BR&gt;O segundo focado na análise e relatórios self-service (indo além do que já temos hoje com os report models, por exemplo), que irá dar mais poder para o usuário (o que chamamos &lt;EM&gt;people ready BI -&lt;/EM&gt; pessoas prontas para BI). Outra coisa que deixou todo mundo de queixo caído foi a apresentação do &lt;EM&gt;Gemini&lt;/EM&gt; (parte do Kilimanjaro), onde mais de 23 milhões de registros eram manipulados em memória (rápido, muito rápido) usando uma máquina "convencional" (com 8GB de RAM), mas ainda assim factível dentro de alguns anos.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;O que eu acho mais importante quando falamos de BI na Microsoft, é o valor da Plataforma inteira. Vemos o Excel, SQL Server, Sharepoint e o Performance Point, trabalhando de forma integrada e gerando um imenso valor para quem utiliza todo seu potencial.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Mais informações? Já tem gente blogando... &lt;A title=http://sqlblog.com/blogs/marco_russo/archive/2008/10/06/microsoft-bi-conference-2008-announcements-on-stage.aspx href="http://sqlblog.com/blogs/marco_russo/archive/2008/10/06/microsoft-bi-conference-2008-announcements-on-stage.aspx" mce_href="http://sqlblog.com/blogs/marco_russo/archive/2008/10/06/microsoft-bi-conference-2008-announcements-on-stage.aspx"&gt;http://sqlblog.com/blogs/marco_russo/archive/2008/10/06/microsoft-bi-conference-2008-announcements-on-stage.aspx&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;P&gt;[]s &lt;BR&gt;Luciano Caixeta Moreira &lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href="mailto:luciano.moreira@microsoft.com" mce_href="mailto:luciano.moreira@microsoft.com"&gt;luciano.moreira@microsoft.com&lt;/A&gt; &lt;BR&gt;=============================================== &lt;BR&gt;This post is provided "AS IS" and confers no right &lt;BR&gt;===============================================&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8978822" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/archive/tags/SQL+Server/default.aspx">SQL Server</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/archive/tags/Eventos/default.aspx">Eventos</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/archive/tags/BI/default.aspx">BI</category></item><item><title>Where am I? Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/archive/2008/10/06/where-am-i-microsoft-business-intelligence-conference.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:18:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8978465</guid><dc:creator>Luciano Caixeta Moreira</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/comments/8978465.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/commentrss.aspx?PostID=8978465</wfw:commentRss><description>
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&lt;A href="javascript:showDiv('PostBIConf_', 'P')"&gt;(Português)&lt;/A&gt; - &lt;A href="javascript:showDiv('PostBIConf_', 'E')"&gt;(English)&lt;/A&gt; 
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&lt;P&gt;Hi folks! &lt;BR&gt;Currently I'm in Seattle attending the Microsoft Business Intelligence conference. As you could notice from my blog, I like to work with SQL Server and deal with data, so BI just can't be left out. During the next posts, I'll focus my comments about things I see in the event that are related to BI, hope you enjoy it.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Soon we'll see more information about Integration Services, Reporting Services e Analysis Services in this blog. &lt;BR&gt;To get some details about the event: &lt;A title=http://www.msbiconference.com href="http://www.msbiconference.com/" mce_href="http://www.msbiconference.com"&gt;http://www.msbiconference.com&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;10/06/2008 - 09:05 AM (Seattle)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;Oi galera! &lt;BR&gt;No momento eu estou em Seattle participando de uma conferência de Business Intelligence da Microsoft. Como vocês já notaram pelo meu blog, eu gosto de trabalhar com o SQL Server e dados, então BI não pode ficar de fora. Nos próximos posts eu vou focar meus comentários sobre o que eu vejo no evento, sempre relacionado com BI. Espero que você goste.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Em breve veremos também mais informações sobre o Integration Services, Reporting Services e Analysis Services neste blog. &lt;BR&gt;Para alguns detalhes sobre o evento: &lt;A title=http://www.msbiconference.com href="http://www.msbiconference.com/" mce_href="http://www.msbiconference.com"&gt;http://www.msbiconference.com&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;06/10/2008 - 09:05 AM (Seattle)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;P&gt;[]s &lt;BR&gt;Luciano Caixeta Moreira &lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href="mailto:luciano.moreira@microsoft.com" mce_href="mailto:luciano.moreira@microsoft.com"&gt;luciano.moreira@microsoft.com&lt;/A&gt; &lt;BR&gt;=============================================== &lt;BR&gt;This post is provided "AS IS" and confers no right &lt;BR&gt;===============================================&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8978465" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/archive/tags/SQL+Server/default.aspx">SQL Server</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/archive/tags/Eventos/default.aspx">Eventos</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/archive/tags/BI/default.aspx">BI</category></item><item><title>Microsoft BI getting stronger and stronger</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/archive/2008/07/24/microsoft-bi-getting-stronger-and-stronger.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:23:14 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8770274</guid><dc:creator>Luciano Caixeta Moreira</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/comments/8770274.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/luti/commentrss.aspx?PostID=8770274</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"&gt;

 
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