Microsoft Business Intelligence Blog

Your Report Development Manager – First Impressions

2010-03-12T13:34:00Z

Does this look like your report development manager? If so, you probably have a pretty poor business intelligence solution. There are a lot of great tools available, but if you do not have a good strategy, you will end up looking like this guy. Call us, we can help....(read more)

State of Illinois and their financial issues - InfoGraphic

2010-03-11T13:57:00Z

Pulled this from the Chicago Tribune. This information graphic points out the financial issues the state of Illinois is in. What really needs to be added to this graphic is a percent of budget. Then you would have a clear pictures of the budget and the shortfall is. When you look at the proposed cut in education, it is a big number, but what is it as a percent of the total budget. Makes things look misleading… http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/elections/ct-met-0310...(read more)

Mobile Browser Market Share

2010-03-10T13:46:00Z

Great visual on the market share by mobile internet browsers. http://connect.icrossing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/mobile-market-share.gif ...(read more)

The Size of the Mobile Market

2010-03-09T13:33:00Z

Great infographic on the mobile business opportunities. Are you working on mobile solutions?! http://dataviz.tumblr.com/post/433636552...(read more)

Tracking the Nation’s Bank Failures InfoGraphic

2010-03-05T14:36:00Z

This is an excellent example of using maps and animation to get the point across on bank failures over time. Look at Washington Mutual up here in the Northwest. Crazy. I still believe JP Chase stole WAMU for the price… http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/info-Failed_Banks-sort.html...(read more)

Android App Store Is 57% Free Compared to Apple's 25%

2010-03-04T14:33:00Z

Great analytical charts can tell an interesting story. Check out this article from Gizmodo on Free vs Paid applications from the mobile OS providers. Using the brand icons to represent the company is a great idea. http://gizmodo.com/5479298/android-app-store-is-57-free-compared-to-apples-25 ...(read more)

Business Advice From Van Halen

2010-03-03T16:30:53Z

David Lee Roth should be the new CFO at Microsoft or really any major company these days. Read this article on how he used a little statement inside their contracts to determine if the vendor they hired actually read the contract. Just awesome… http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/143/made-to-stick-the-telltale-brown-mampm.html “In other words, Roth was no diva. He was an operations expert. He couldn't spend hours every night checking the amperage of each socket. He needed a...(read more)

The BLOG is BACK!

2010-03-01T23:48:23Z

Well, my ISP decided a couple weeks ago to migrate the server that our blog was on to a new hosting platform. Well, we all know what will happen, right?! Yep, we went offline for over 10 days. Kills me! The ISP was absolutely no help in resolving the issues they caused. Their offshore support was a joke. So we took matters in our own hands and moved away from that ISP. They will NEVER get another dime from me. To bad, I was a loyal customer for...(read more)

Investment Return Assumptions - Pensions and Benefits

2010-02-18T14:00:48Z

Found this view today showing state pensions investment returns needed to be able to cover obligations. Boy, wouldn’t it be great to get these kinds of returns on your investments? I doubt they are actually getting them after the last several years, but I really like how they presented the business intelligence in this report. Excellent....(read more)

Waste Management and Recycling InfoGraphic

2010-02-16T16:11:00Z

This is a great example of using InfoGraphics to present information more clearer. PDF: UNEP GEO Data Portal -- Basic Facts Posters - Waste Management...(read more)

Great Infographic of what a Trillion dollars looks like

2010-02-16T14:03:00Z

This is a wonderful infrographic that visually displays what a trillion dollars actually looks like. A trillion here and a trillion there doesnâ€™t sound all that bad. But if you put it into the following visual perspective, you get a real understand the issues with the United States liability. Anyway, great business intelligence. But is anyone really watching?...(read more)

Kerberos SPN Generation / Setup Tool

2010-02-12T13:19:00Z

My friend Robert has come up with some tools to help with Kerberos setup. Check them out at http://robertlambrecht.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!1738EAC7F6359C6D!2309.entry?sa=604119460 ...(read more)

Microsoft BI Conference â€“ June 7 - 10

2010-02-08T12:38:00Z

Weâ€™ll be there, will you?...(read more)

Gartner Business Intelligence Summit 2010 - Recap

2010-02-05T14:59:00Z

More from Bruno at the Gartner BI Summit. ...(read more)

824,000 Will Disappear On February 5 â€“ Nice chart!

2010-02-04T18:54:00Z

Well, our government really needs a good business intelligence solution since they found that over 800,000 jobs were miss reported over the past year. But, I have to admit, they have a nice bar chart reflecting the job loses and the correctionâ€¦ What is sad about this, this is data from over a YEAR ago? Wait until they find the last 9 months of data to be out of syncâ€¦ HEY WHITEHOUSE, we can help you with your business intelligence data issues! :o) http://www.bloomberg.com...(read more)