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Tech M&A deals increase in Q2

I was browsing one of my favorite technology news sites for the Northwest and found a very cool like chart that is mixed with a bubble chart. This gives you a good perspective on the size of the deals compared to the number of deals for the month...

Published Mon, Aug 30 2010 4:54 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Analytics, Article, Visualization, Business Intelligence

Drill into Extended Results on Inc. Magazines 500|5000 Fastest Growing Companies of 2010

You can drill down to the details of every company on the list. When you drill down to our company, you can see our Trophy Case on where we rank in IT Services and in Seattle. We are in the TOP 50 for IT Services and TOP 15 for the Seattle...

Published Thu, Aug 26 2010 5:04 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Analytics, Business Intelligence, Inc

#1 in Business Intelligence IT Services according to the Inc 500|5000 of 2010

I was pouring through the list of top IT Services and Software companies in the Inc 500|5000 to see who was the TOP Business Intelligence company. Well guess what I found out?! We are the ONLY business intelligence focused company within...

Published Wed, Aug 25 2010 5:08 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Analytics, Article, Business Intelligence, Inc

Extended Results makes the Inc. 500|5000 List of Fastest Growing Companies of 2010 at position 525!

I’m very excited to announce that we made the Inc. Magazine Top 500|5000 for the fastest growing companies of 2010 at position 525! We were ranked the 15th fastest growing company in the Seattle area too! I started Extended Results...

Published Tue, Aug 24 2010 6:16 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Microsoft, Analytics, Business Intelligence, Inc

Business Intelligence using Satellites

You just have to love big investment firms that can invest millions to return billions. Read this article about how hedge funds and wall street firms are using satellites to view car populations in Wal-Mart parking lots! As part of a growing...

Published Fri, Aug 20 2010 5:00 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Analytics, Visualization, Business Intelligence, Insight

Great Insight for Gaining a Competitive Advantage

I was reading TechFlash this morning and enjoyed a short article on RedFin and the use of Agent sales in a market. What a great way to use special insight from a good business intelligence solution. Here's a good read from Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman...

Published Wed, Aug 18 2010 5:00 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Analytics, Business Intelligence, Insight

Visual Data Explorer on Microsoft Windows Themes Downloads using LiveLabs PivotViewer

We have been doing a pilot project with the Windows Analytics group analyzing theme downloads for Windows 7. We used SharePoint 2010 and LiveLabs Pivotviewer as the technologies to provide a data visualization explorer. How...

Published Mon, Aug 16 2010 6:00 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Microsoft, Analytics, Visualization, Business Intelligence, SilverLight, Data Mining, PivotViewer

CNN Money Chart Explained

I was reading my boss’s blog post yesterday about the CNN Money charts that include a red or green stripe to indicate if the market has gone up or down over each monthly period. I wanted to recreate the graph, but knew Silverlight would be a time...

Published Thu, Jul 29 2010 5:15 AM by Kyle Schadt

Filed under: Excel, Reporting, Analytics, Article, UI/UX, Visualization, Business Intelligence, PowerPivot, Infographics, Economics, Education

PowerPivot & Analysis Services – The Value of Both

Linking over to a good article on PowerPivot and Analysis Services As Microsoft PowerPivot is gaining more popularity and exposure, BI professionals ask more and more questions about PowerPivot’s role in the organization in trying to understand what value...

Published Wed, Jul 28 2010 5:00 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Microsoft, SQL, Analytics, Business Intelligence, PowerPivot

Even CNN has some good analytical charts on the market

I was reading the news this morning came across the headline Market will ‘drift for the rest of the summer’ . The article is basically about the market now through August that because of vacations, the market really doesn’t do much. ...

Published Mon, Jul 26 2010 5:00 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Analytics, Article, Visualization, Random Thoughts, SilverLight, Infographics, Economics

Energy Subsidies Black, Not Green

Sometimes a tradition bar chart doesn’t give you everything you need to know to be able to compare the facts. A study released by the Environmental Law Institute, a nonpartisan research and policy organization, shows that the federal government...

Published Mon, Jul 19 2010 6:31 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Cool Site, Analytics, Article, Visualization, Business Intelligence, Infographics

Watch the Growth of Walmart and Sam's Club

This is a wonderful example of InfoGraphics and automation. Using time animation, creating a story with your data becomes easier and easier. Click through the following link to see the sample. Nice job. Source http://projects...

Published Thu, Jul 8 2010 9:09 PM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Analytics, Visualization, Business Intelligence, Infographics

Microsoft BI and World Cup Social Media Analytics–Great Mention!

Just clicking through the links and noticed we are highlighted on the Microsoft BI blog site. Very cool. http://www.microsoft.com/bi/biresources/

Published Mon, Jun 28 2010 2:03 PM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Microsoft, Analytics, Visualization, Video, Business Intelligence, BLOG, Social Media Analytics

World Cup 2010 Social Media Analytics with @brunoaziza

This is a video that was shot in our offices highlighting our social media analytics solution and services. You can find a link to the solution at http://extendedresults.com/worldcup

Published Fri, Jun 18 2010 1:01 PM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Microsoft, Analytics, Video, Business Intelligence, Infographics, Mobile Business Intelligence, Social Media Analytics, World Cup

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#

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