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Altius Consulting is pleased to announce the expansion of its sales and marketing team with the appointment of Marketing Assistant James Teodorini. James has experience within the areas of IT and Marketing and joins Altius on a 12 month placement whilst...
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22 senior representatives from 15 organisations recently attended the Altius briefing breakfast at the Pomme D’or hotel, Jersey. Jonathan Cowle - Financial Director at Altius - took the audience through the reasons why organisations create and build business...
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With the recent release of SharePoint 2010 and all its new functional goodness, the temptation to upgrade or install a new instance has become even more tempting. More and more companies are coming around to understanding the benefits that SharePoint...
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The Business Intelligence videos from last weeks Microsoft TechEd 2010 Conference are now available on-line and available here . They are all excellent and I certainly recommend watching them if you get the chance. Some standouts from the sessions I attended...
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This week I’ve seen some very impressive demos. As well as PowerPivot and SharePoint I’ve been to sessions on Master Data Services, Advanced Analysis Services UDM modelling, Fast Track Data Warehouse (RAID discussion at 8am – good start to the day...
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No keynote speeches today, so instead I took the opportunity to attend some sessions on PowerPivot and found that in most of them SharePoint was being discussed nearly as much as PowerPivot. First up was a deep-dive session into the technologies...
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Microsoft have just shown off a PowerPivot workbook with 2,000,000,007 rows in it, and it still sorted and filtered the whole data set almost instantly. They were demoing this new coming-soon feature the BI Keynote session given by Ted Kummert,...
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“Cloud is a major transformation of the [IT] industry” was the message from Bob Muglia, President of the Server and Tools division of Microsoft and keynote speaker on the opening day of the 2010 Microsoft TechEd conference. His message was that...
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On Thursday July 8th , Altius Consulting (CI) will be holding a short breakfast briefing on Spreadsheet Hell . During the briefing we will discuss the continued challenges organisations face from an over exposure to financial applications and processes...
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This follows on from my first blog and looks at the technical aspect of the ELMAH to Gemini process. Over this little series I have introduced ELMAH ( Error Logging Modules and Handlers ), Exchange web services and Gemini. This blog is going to discuss...
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At Altius Consulting we use an issue tracking system to help our clients report any problems quickly and easily (once they have signed a Service Level Agreement (SLA)). The system we use to track these issues is Gemini - an application developed by Countersoft...
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A couple of weeks ago Microsoft released the latest version of Silverlight (version 4). This release has lots of new features and capabilities, Scott Guthrie has a great Silverlight 4 Release Blog . One of the recommended installs...
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I just downloaded the trial edition of SQL Server 2008 R2 and noticed that the version number is 10.50.1600. This was also displayed at the bottom of the new query window: It would appear that the RTM version is now available via the trial edition...
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I gave a quick demonstration of Excel 2010 and the new PowerPivot add-in to a client today and they were impressed. One piece of feedback though caught me a little off-guard which was, “does this tool mean you’re out of a job?”. It’s a very good...
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Got a new toy. Recently I had a trip over to England and was able to grab some technical preview ISO’s including the one for Office 2010 beta. Now what I’m really after is a chance to play with PowerPivot, but I thought I’d share some initial thoughts...
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