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• 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