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Have you ever researched how much time is being lost looking for data and reports within your company or group? How much time is lost by an analyst looking for information? How many emails have to be sent asking for information? How many phone calls are made wondering...
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - IBM Corp. was in the acquisition frame of mind on Tuesday after it announced plans to acquire SPSS Inc. for about $1.2 billion as part of a broader foray into the market for business-analytics software. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ibm-to-buy-spss-inc-in-12-billion-cash...
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You may have noticed a lot of changes to our blog lately. We spent some time upgrading to the latest version of community server and you should be noticing a new look and more speed to the site. But we have a bigger focus now… We also have a new URL in http://www.InsideMSFTBI.com . ...
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Well, we had our final day at the WPC09 conference. A big storm came up and it was thundering all around and then it just started to pour rain. After about 10 minutes of that, the lights went out in the Exhibit area and we were wondering... HURRICANE , well, it wasn't a hurricane as the lights came...
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The conference is turning out to be beyond our expectations. We have had a ton of interest in our personalized business intelligence solution from all over the world. I think timing is right for a solution like ours as customers need it, other consulting companies are using it to land new BI business...
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Well we are having a great time at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner conference here in New Orleans. Microsoft has been showing off some of the great new features coming in Windows 7 and Office 2010. They haven't shown any information on SharePoint or PerformancePoint. They are keeping it all quiet...
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We arrived on Sunday evening for the Microsoft Worldwide Partner conference in New Orleans. Microsoft launched its new branded partner program, finally gone is that pretty ugly site and now they have a nice fresh look. I look forward to all the changes they are making to the program. There are a lot...
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Ok, that was a little bit painful as we upgraded our blog software. We had to upgrade to a middle version and then upgrade again, but we finally got there. What a pain. Anyway, we are going to have some big changes to our blog site in the coming month as we rebrand our business intelligence consulting...
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Came across this chart this morning. A good bar chart will give you great perspectives on issues. May 2009 Unemployment Numbers for the United States. I would love to see other countries unemployment numbers. Remember, unemployment is a lagging number....
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Driving through the Redwest campus yesterday and saw the new BING truck. Funny...
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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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Microsoft Business Intelligence Blog
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Patrick Husting
on Thu, Apr 23 2009
Filed under: PerformancePoint Server, Microsoft, SSAS, Reporting Services, Facts, Scorecards, MDX, Marketing, Performance Management, Reporting, Analytics, News, PushBI
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http://www.microsoft.com/bi/ April 8, 2009 In 2009, Microsoft will deliver Business Intelligence content in more places than ever! We will have significant presence at Tech Ed (May 2009, Los Angeles, CA), at Worldwide Partner Conference (July 2009, New Orleans, LA) the SharePoint Conference (October...
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special note : I had to take this entry down yesterday because I guess it wasn't pushed out to the press yet. Sorry PPS team. I guess it is live news today! another note : I think these are all great changes, more small, mid and enterprise size customers will be able to get performance management and...
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It has been a REALLY busy year at Extended Results our consulting company. We have had some tremendous growth in regards to customers and employees along with generating some new and interesting intellectual property. I have been using QuickBooks for years for my different companies and I found it to...
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PerformancePoint Monitoring Server SP1 includes the following enhancements: · Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 · Add a default display condition report view (see related blog post) · Multi-select Monitoring server filters passing to multi-select SQL Server Reporting Services report parameters...
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What is in it, got this email the following week. It doesn't list everything, but if they are doing everything that is in the email, that is a good thing. · Filter performance – you should see a 4-6x improvement in your filter performance, this is an area we would like some feedback on · Multi-select...
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Got an email from Bruno today about a new book by him, Bruno Aziza and Joey Fitts. I hope you have been doing well. I just wanted to share some news with you – and it’s not an April Fool’s Day joke! My book, Drive Business Performance is being printed as we speak! It will be available at your local...
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Found this web site today. Basically they index blogs and their keywords. Kind of interesting but they are not indexing my site so I would take it with grain of salt. English posts that contain Performancepoint Server per day for the last 90 days. 10/30 Note: I submitted my site to be index by them last...
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This is just a shameless plug, but we worked as part of the feature development team for Mobile Device Manager 2008. My team was responsible for the SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services reports/service within this new product. If you are looking at managing lots of smart devices on the network, you should...
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NEW YORK (AP) -- SAP AG has agreed to acquire software maker Business Objects SA in a tender offer valued at more than 4.8 billion euros ($6.8 billion), the companies said Sunday. Under the terms of the agreement, SAP, the world's largest maker of business software that helps companies do back-office...