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OR: A simple example of how to use the Reactive Extensions with Silverlight to process responses from web services. One of the most useful tools that I have stumbled across in recent months has to be the Reactive Extensions (Rx) put out by Microsoft Labs. There are smarter people than me out there who...
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One thing I really like about using Excel for my business intelligence solution is the ability to create some really good looking charts (author opinion). We are all guilty of just cranking out reports using the default settings as we are just trying to get the job done, but if you spend...
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I’m on Jury Duty today so I’m basically watching TV all day… Check out this BI. Love it!
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Was just to good to pass up. Don’t know if you have been following how the climate researchers have fudging the numbers, but someone made up this little cartoon that was just to good to pass up.
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Interesting POST by IBM this morning on BusinessWeek, but you really need to read the comments sections. Ouch… “Thanks to the Internet, the world has become a swelling ocean full of data. One grand challenge of our age is to find a way to harness that data. And that’s where the burgeoning...
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Bryan in our office forwarded me this web site that shows political contributions by industry/company. Check it out, presented very clearly and easy to understand. Roll over a company name to see a break out of their lobbyist efforts. http://www.goodguide.com/contributions#sector=Computer...
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We released version 1.0 of our product in May of 2009 and we have already turned around version 2.0 this month of October 2009. Why so quick? The feedback and feature requests of customers and potential customers has been great! Visit www.PUSHBI.com for demo downloads of the desktop...
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I’m pretty excited to be traveling to New York this week to present at the Microsoft offices to several media and entertainment companies. We are going to be co-presenting with Microsoft on “Personalized Business Intelligence†and showing many of the recent products we have developed over...
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Filed under: Microsoft, Office 12, Excel, Dasbboards, Marketing, Performance Management, Analytics, Screenshots, Conference, Extended Analytics, PushBI, Scenario, Visualization, Mobile, Office 14
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For years we have been told to buy all these analytic tools, build these great dashboards, deploy them to a big servers and just tell your end users to go up to the server and get what they need to run their businesses. I’ve been deploying a lot of these solutions for years and I just keep...
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I haven't been doing much blogging lately; we are busy working on our business intelligence projects and are fortunate to have a full pipeline of BI projects (SQL, SSAS, SSRS, SPS, PPS and Silverlight). But, I truly believe if you are going to survive as a company, you either innovate or die. With that...
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Filed under: PerformancePoint Server, Microsoft, SSAS, Reporting Services, Facts, Scorecards, MDX, Marketing, Performance Management, Reporting, Analytics, News, PushBI
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One request we get all the time is " give us the ability to drag and drop and create our own reports ". PerformancePoint really doesn't have any end-user report writing features to do that. Sure you can drill across and down, but you really can't drop in our own measures and dimensions on a blank report...
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DSP Performance Canvas brings a completely new Web 2.0/ AJAX high performance platform which as our previous products is outstanding in Microsoft SharePoint, but in addition connects to Enterprise Search and automatically publishes Performance Dashboards for Mobile use. A new user interface lets an advanced...
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I grabbed this from the beta news group this morning. The following Monitoring and Analytics features have been added in Microsoft PerformancePoint Server 2007 CTP2: Dashboards Thin Dashboard Consumer. Provides the user experience of thin analytic dashboards created in Dashboard Designer. Publish to...
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Well, I know this is suppose to be about PerformancePoint Server and Microsoft Business intelligence, but sometimes you cannot resist talking about some other products. I like to analyze some of the new web 2.0 companies out there because we have one under development. We I have posted about Swivel in...
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So I met one of the founders of Tableau Software last fall and played around with their trial software over the Christmas holiday. I ended up purchasing the software this month because I found it truly amazing that it can connect to Excel, Access, SQL, Analysis Services, Hyperion and many others and...