February 2007 - Posts
So, as you have probably seen today, the U.S. Market took a big dump as did other markets. I use Google Finance because I like the web 2.0 functionality of the site. Check out the page below and look at all the RED . I haven't seen that in quite some
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I found this over at the SQL Server Manageability Team Blog . It will help analyze your OLAP databases and give you recommendations for performance. It is worth a look... "The SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) gathers data from Microsoft Windows
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Well, I know this is suppose to be about PerformancePoint Server and Microsoft Business intelligence, but sometimes you cannot resist talking about some other products. I like to analyze some of the new web 2.0 companies out there because we have one
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Microsoft is releasing an update to Business Scorecard Manager 2005. Below is an excerpt from the release I have received. You should be able to download the update via the Microsoft PerformancePoint web site. Overview The Business Scorecard Manager Compatibility
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So I met one of the founders of Tableau Software last fall and played around with their trial software over the Christmas holiday. I ended up purchasing the software this month because I found it truly amazing that it can connect to Excel, Access, SQL,
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Microsoft has released a significant update for its widely used SQL Server database software. The company on Monday announced the general availability of SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 -- which contains a number of key enhancements to the software, including
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Creating KPIs are a bit different in Concerto. The following screens outline some of the steps when creating a KPI within the new tool. You need to switch over to the Create tab and click the KPI button. You need to enter a name and folder like you did
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Just saw this on the Microsoft MSDN web site. Worth the download and read if you are doing OLAP work. http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/5/e/85eea4fa-b3bb-4426-97d0-7f7151b2011c/SSAS2005PerfGuide.doc Regards Patrick
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How did I forget to post about this one. PPS Monitoring is now one of those Click Once delivered applications. What is "Click Once" you may ask? With Visual Studio 2005, you can have Windows Form applications delivered from a web server. So deploy the
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“ Microsoft has just announced its pricing model for PerformancePoint and it's a game changer . It is orders of magnitude less than current business performance management offerings. As such it is a major step forward for the potential of pervasive BI
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One of the products we created in our business intelligence company is called Worldview CSR which helps companies manage their Corporate Social Responsibility programs. Recently, I wrote an article for the Business for Social Responsibility ( www.BSR.org
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Ok, this is a nice feature, but I think we could do more with it in later builds. Basically, whatever item you are working on in the Work Area , all the elements that relate to that Work Area are shown in the Details browser. This is nice to see when
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