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Reactive, Silverlight, and Web Services (Oh my!)

OR: A simple example of how to use the Reactive Extensions with Silverlight to process responses from web services. One of the most useful tools that I have stumbled across in recent months has to be the Reactive Extensions (Rx) put out by Microsoft Labs...

Published Mon, Jan 18 2010 4:41 PM by mjwilson

Filed under: Microsoft, Analytics, Visualization, Business Intelligence, SilverLight, Rx, Reactive Extensions, C#
Better looking charts in Excel 2007/2010

One thing I really like about using Excel for my business intelligence solution is the ability to create some really good looking charts (author opinion). We are all guilty of just cranking out reports using the default settings as we are...

Published Tue, Dec 29 2009 8:50 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Microsoft, Excel, Tips, Analytics, Article, Visualization, Business Intelligence
Great BI on TV

Iâ€™m on Jury Duty today so Iâ€™m basically watching TV all dayâ€¦ Check out this BI. Love it!

Published Tue, Dec 22 2009 10:47 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Tips, Analytics, Video, Infographics, Dashboards
ClimateGate: They are trying to blame it on Clippy

Was just to good to pass up. Donâ€™t know if you have been following how the climate researchers have fudging the numbers, but someone made up this little cartoon that was just to good to pass up.

Published Sat, Dec 12 2009 4:44 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Tips, Analytics
Want a Job? Analytics is the Thing, Says IBM

Interesting POST by IBM this morning on BusinessWeek, but you really need to read the comments sections. Ouchâ€¦ â€œThanks to the Internet, the world has become a swelling ocean full of data. One grand challenge of our age is to find a way to harness...

Published Fri, Dec 11 2009 4:16 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Analytics, IBM
Great use and showcase of UI/UX in business intelligence

Bryan in our office forwarded me this web site that shows political contributions by industry/company. Check it out, presented very clearly and easy to understand. Roll over a company name to see a break out of their lobbyist efforts. http...

Published Mon, Dec 7 2009 3:30 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Tips, Analytics, Article, Business Intelligence, Infographics
PushBI 2.0 Released! Desktop and Mobile Business Intelligence

We released version 1.0 of our product in May of 2009 and we have already turned around version 2.0 this month of October 2009. Why so quick? The feedback and feature requests of customers and potential customers has been great! ...

Published Mon, Oct 12 2009 6:00 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Microsoft, Analytics, PushBI, Visualization, Mobile
Getting ready for my New York trip to present â€œPersonalized Business Intelligenceâ€

Iâ€™m pretty excited to be traveling to New York this week to present at the Microsoft offices to several media and entertainment companies. We are going to be co-presenting with Microsoft on â€œPersonalized Business Intelligenceâ€ and showing...

Published Thu, Oct 8 2009 6:00 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Microsoft, Office 12, Excel, Dasbboards, Marketing, Performance Management, Analytics, Screenshots, Conference, Extended Analytics, PushBI, Scenario, Visualization, Mobile, Office 14
Can all the business intelligence companies be wrong? â€œSELF-SERVEâ€

For years we have been told to buy all these analytic tools, build these great dashboards, deploy them to a big servers and just tell your end users to go up to the server and get what they need to run their businesses. Iâ€™ve been deploying...

Published Thu, Sep 24 2009 6:00 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Microsoft, Tips, Performance Management, Analytics, Article, IBM, Random Thoughts
PushBI Desktop and Windows Mobile - Personalized Business Intelligence

I haven't been doing much blogging lately; we are busy working on our business intelligence projects and are fortunate to have a full pipeline of BI projects (SQL, SSAS, SSRS, SPS, PPS and Silverlight). But, I truly believe if you are going to survive...

Published Thu, Apr 23 2009 1:02 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: PerformancePoint Server, Microsoft, SSAS, Reporting Services, Facts, Scorecards, MDX, Marketing, Performance Management, Reporting, Analytics, News, PushBI
End-User Adhoc Report Building for PerformancePoint and SharePoint

One request we get all the time is " give us the ability to drag and drop and create our own reports ". PerformancePoint really doesn't have any end-user report writing features to do that. Sure you can drill across and down, but you really can't drop...

Published Mon, Oct 20 2008 5:00 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: PerformancePoint Server, Reporting, Analytics
DSP Performance canvas 2007 - at the Microsoft BI Conference

DSP Performance Canvas brings a completely new Web 2.0/ AJAX high performance platform which as our previous products is outstanding in Microsoft SharePoint, but in addition connects to Enterprise Search and automatically publishes Performance Dashboards...

Published Thu, May 10 2007 6:16 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: SharePoint, Analytics
Microsoft PerformancePoint Server 2007: Monitoring and Analytics: CTP2

I grabbed this from the beta news group this morning. The following Monitoring and Analytics features have been added in Microsoft PerformancePoint Server 2007 CTP2: Dashboards Thin Dashboard Consumer. Provides the user experience of thin analytic dashboards...

Published Thu, Mar 29 2007 9:21 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Monitoring, Analytics
Swivel and Embedding charts walk through

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...

Published Sat, Feb 24 2007 6:00 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Analytics
Tableau Software, this software ROCKS for ad-hoc Analysis!

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...

Published Thu, Feb 22 2007 6:00 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Analytics

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