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London, June 2009 BOARD, the global leader in the Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management Toolkit space, today announced that Altius Consulting, an information management consulting firm, has signed a Reseller Agreement with BOARD....
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This recession has been very different to previous economic downturns. It has been brought about by a fundamental breakdown in the worldwide banking system rather than a failure in, say, UK monetary policy. So, after nearly two years of decline in output...
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Altius has selected IT-Workplace as its Excel Add-In partner of choice. This new relationship will present many exciting opportunities for both businesses to work together on projects particularly in the energy, public sector, retail and financial...
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In a tough economic climate it would be easy to assume that IT budgets might be cut. IT is however being hailed by many retailers as a high-return investment opportunity to help reduce costs, improve customer service and ultimately increase profitability...
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Today I installed the Oracle Essbase 11 Excel add-in. All worked well and I could connect to Essbase fine. When another user logged on to my machine and attempted to use it, the user could not connect to Essbase using the Excel add-in (nothing would seem...
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Overview SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse accelerates your data warehouse roadmap with new SQL Server 2008 Enterprise scalable reference architectures for HP, Dell and Bull. Reduce costs, save time and reduce risk with reliable, pre-tested hardware...
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Following the consolidation of Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server’s Monitoring & Analytics components into the SharePoint Enterprise CAL (and the future provision of this as ‘PerformancePoint Services’ in the next release) many existing SharePoint...
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Microsoft announced on Friday that the Microsoft BI Conference, originally scheduled to be held in October this year, has now moved to October 2010 and will in future be held every two years. Microsoft will instead be driving more BI content at other...
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Of late I have noticed the mainstream computing press getting stuck into survive the credit crunch mode, with a variety of themes from saving money by running fewer servers through virtualisation, to cloud computing, SaaS and SOA. What I haven’t noticed...
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Following on from the CTP release of SP1 in February, Microsoft announced the official release SQL Server 2008 SP1 yesterday and is now available for download in the Microsoft Download Center: Download SQL Server 2008 SP1 The SP1 release is “primarily...
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I thought it is worth highlighting the 'Periodic Jobs and Tasks in SAP BW' white paper by SAP, which gives an overview of the most important maintenance tasks in SAP BW. This white paper is an important read for all those designing and supporting...
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Planning Better in these Challenging Times Say ‘Good-bye’ to ‘Excel-Hell’! Thursday 23 rd April 2009 at the BAFTA Suites 195 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LN Situations change quickly in an economic downturn. Your planning process needs to be adaptive and...
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Cost reduction and enhanced planning are hot-topics in the current economic climate. Doug Guess, CFO at Servigistics made some interesting comments in Finance Week on how bringing simple home-truths into cost management can deliver significant value back...
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Microsoft has announced a range of pre configured servers for BI applications, specifically for relational data warehouses but also including Analysis Services. Full details can be found on http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/fasttrack.aspx...
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A colleague of mine recently sent me a link to Robert's description of "What BI is". I think it's a great layman's terms description of what BI is, why we do it and where it comes from - it's not just about technology - it's...
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