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• Free SQL Server 2008 R2 e-Book

  As Business Intelligence features make up a large portion of SQL Server 2008 R2’s feature set it’s important for IT Directors and BI Managers to be armed with the facts as they evaluate and plan use of their features. Customers with earlier editions of... Posted Apr 23 2010, 06:47 AM by Matt Quinn with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft, PowerPivot, business intelligence, SQL Server 2008 R2, StreamInsight, Master Data Services

• Collaboration in Business Intelligence & Performance Management

  Collaboration and Business Intelligence are both technologies that have rapidly evolved in recent years, each along their own independent paths. As social networking has become mainstream and more broadly understood, so the concepts of applying collaborative... Posted Mar 26 2010, 10:24 AM by Matt Quinn with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft, Collaboration, BI, PowerPivot, Agile BI

• PowerPivot BI for the Cloud – Give it a REST!

  If you’re a regular reader of the Altius Community blogs, you’ll have seem an increasing amount of activity around PowerPivot (formerly Gemini) as a BI tool delivered as part of Office 2010, with significant enhancements when used in conjunction with... Posted Nov 23 2009, 02:18 PM by Matt Quinn with | with no comments Filed under: Microsoft, Excel, REST, PowerPivot

• SharePoint – now with added BI!

  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... Posted Apr 16 2009, 11:19 AM by Matt Quinn with | with no comments Filed under: Microsoft, SharePoint

• Waterstone's Creates Company-wide Portal

  From this week's Retail Week, there was an interesting article by Joanna Perry, the Technology Editor about the Waterstone's integrated Business Intelligence Portal: Published: 23 July 2008 10:14 Author: Joanna Perry More by this Author Last Updated... Posted Jul 28 2008, 05:23 PM by Matt Quinn with | with no comments Filed under: Microsoft, Retail, BI, Data Warehouse

• Only 16% of firms budget accurately - are the rest in Excel-Hell?

  According to Finance Week ( http://www.financeweek.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=6073 ), in a survey only 16% of firms are performing budgeting accurately and highlights significant issues in the financial planning process. Apparently 76% of respondents stated... Posted Apr 15 2008, 04:27 PM by Matt Quinn with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: SAP, Business Objects, Microsoft, planning, Workflow, Budgeting, Forecasting, Excel

• What is PerformancePoint Server 2007 ?

  Here is a useful document, or extract on 'what is PerformancePoint Server 2007' I think because this is relatively new technology (or a combination between new and acquired products) it does still feel like a 'release 1' and so we need... Posted Mar 17 2008, 03:01 PM by bloguser with | with no comments Filed under: performancepoint, monitoring, Microsoft, analysis, planning

• Woodgrove Bank Demo in Silverlight

  Thought you might be interested in seeing this. Silverlight in Financials Demonstrator The demonstrator is a 'mock-up' website that shows the interactions and experience you could get from a silverlight enabled site. Features like interactive... Posted Mar 14 2008, 11:45 AM by bloguser with | with no comments Filed under: Woodgrove, Financials, Silverlight, Microsoft