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Microsoft Brings Business Intelligence to the Masses With SharePoint

January 28th, 2009 No comments
More news about Performance Point from Microsoft. Microsoft has posted a short Q&A with the Senior VP of Office Business Platform Group at Microsoft . The interview gives some insight into the strategy announcement, why Microsoft made this decision, how planning customer will be supported and what the overall benefit to customers will be.
 
Read it here:
 
While it doesn’t shed light on how they are going to replace the proclarity Desktop it clearly states the reason for the big change:
“We frequently sum up our mission as bringing “BI to the masses.” Incorporating Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 features into Office SharePoint Server helps us fulfill that mission and sets us apart from many of the BI vendors that require the purchase of specialized applications. “
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Microsoft Business Intelligence strategy update and SharePoint

January 26th, 2009 No comments
Ok for those of you who missed it last weekend, MS has changed the Performance Point strategy 180 degrees. From now on. Quote: “As part of this vision, and feedback from a wide variety of customers, PerformancePoint scorecarding and dashboarding capabilities will now become part of SharePoint Enterprise CAL and available to customers who are on SharePoint SA. This means that customers who want to deploy PerformancePoint can do so today at no additional cost.  “
 
 
But they sacrifice PPS Planning, it wil not be further developed.  I think it’s a smart move, most MS enterprises will have MOSS so they will get instantly acces to All those great Performance management tools.
 
Some more insight on other blogs:
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Learn Microsoft BI

December 1st, 2008 No comments

I recently came across a great site with free MS BI training video’s:
http://www.learnmicrosoftbi.com/Default.aspx

“The goal here is simple: to provide free videos and forums about the Microsoft BI stack. This includes SQL Server Integration Services, SQL Server Analysis Services, SQL Server Reporting Services, PerformancePoint Server, ProClarity, SharePoint, and Excel.”

All go and register !

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BI in practice: Microsoft Surface plots out the election on MSNBC

September 12th, 2008 No comments
A great example of BI in practice, this sample shows us MS Surface as BI enabler, you can drill through and look at several what if scenarios in a very user friendly way.
 
 
 
 
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Free MS Clinics: New Features Of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 BI

July 16th, 2008 No comments
Microsoft has two nice free clinics to learn the new Features of MS Sql Server 2008 BI. 
 
One overall clinic about SQL server 2008 BI:
Title: Clinic 6189: What’s New in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for Business Intelligence
Course Type: Self-paced Course
Available Offline: Yes
Estimated Time of Completion: 1 Hour
Language: English
 
Description:
In this 1 hour on-line clinic, database developers will learn about the new features in SQL Server 2008 that will help them to improve the Business Intelligence infrastructure. Topics covered in this clinic include:
Integration Services in SQL Server 2008
Reporting Services in SQL Server 2008
Analysis Services in SQL Server 2008
 
 
There is also a detailed one about reporting:
Title: Clinic 6258: New Features Of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services
Course Type: Self-paced Course
Available Offline: Yes
Estimated Time of Completion: 1 Hour
Language: English
Description:
This Clinic cover topics on New Reporting Services Features in SQL Server 2008 (BETA)
Objectives:
At the end of the course, students will be able to:
• This online course addresses several of the new features and functionality of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services
• It includes the new Microsoft Report Designer
• A look at the innovate tablix data region
• Enhancements in visualization through improved charting and gauges
• Exploration of new administration and management features are also explored
 
 
This will get you prepared fot the upcomming SQL server 2008.
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Microsoft speaks healthcare (MS HealthVault)

March 7th, 2008 No comments
While browsing some healthcare blogs i came across a nice interview of Matthew Holt from thehealthcareblog.com with Microsoft.
 
From the blog:
“Microsoft has made some big strides in health this past year. You can easily argue that a) its search has outpaced Google (following the acquisition of Medstory), b) that it’s making strides in the provider market with the renamed Amalga (although that’s leading to a strategic question about whether they’re really going to be a serious player on the inpatient EMR side there) and c) finally that HealthVault legitimizes the whole PHR market. Microsoft will be at pains to tell you that HealthVault is not, though, a PHR. What is it? Ad what about the rest of those questions? “
 
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