Microsoft Business Intelligence Blog

Stop by and see us at WPC09 Booth 1300

Patrick Husting — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:26:00 GMT

We will be attending the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2009 in New Orleans. Stop by booth 1300 (far right corner as you enter the exhibition hall) and see our PushBI Desktop and Mobile live. PushBI will also be highlighed in several sessions there by different Microsoft speakers. I'll post another blog entry latter on the different sessions we will be in.

Also, come to our booth and show us PushBI on your mobile phone or on your desktop computer and you'll be entered to win an expensive remote control race car!

New PushBI Server Platform Diagram

Patrick Husting — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:19:00 GMT

We are having some great success with our new PushBI and have updated our Server part of the product recently with some new features along with usability updates. Our PushBI Server provides data to our software clients but can also be used by other clients. An example is we have recently used SilverLight to access our server and provide a KPI Browser like you have in iTunes when you browse albums. Very cool.

More information can be found at www.PUSHBI.com

Extended Results on YouTube

Patrick Husting — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:07:00 GMT

We created a youtube channel to start uploading our videos of our business intelligence solutions. We have PushBI videos of the Desktop and Mobile Devices up there at the moment. We'll be adding your Extended Excel and SilverLight BI solutions in the near future.

Check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/user/ExtendedResults

Unemployment Chart. Wow. Random Thoughts

Patrick Husting — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:57:00 GMT

Came across this chart this morning. A good bar chart will give you great perspectives on issues. May 2009 Unemployment Numbers for the United States. I would love to see other countries unemployment numbers. Remember, unemployment is a lagging number....

Nothing to do with BI - the Microsoft BING truck

Patrick Husting — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:49:00 GMT

Driving through the Redwest campus yesterday and saw the new BING truck. Funny...

Vanity Metrics vs. Actionable Metrics

Patrick Husting — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:34:00 GMT

If you haven't read Four Hour Work Week, it is a fun read if you like starting up businesses. I stumbled upon this on his blog which was an interesting read if you have the time.

1. Split-tests
2. Per-customer metrics
3. Funnel metrics and cohort analysis
4. Keyword (SEM/SEO) metrics

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/05/19/vanity-metrics-vs-actionable-metrics/

PushBI for Microsoft TechED 2009

Patrick Husting — Thu, 07 May 2009 08:26:00 GMT

We developed a PushBI solution to track the business intelligence sessions and ratings at TechED 2009 next week. Download and give it a tour next week when the session speakers scores start coming in.

http://www.PUSHBI.com/TechED.aspx

PushBI Desktop - Working Concepts

Patrick Husting — Tue, 05 May 2009 00:16:00 GMT

We have been having a lot of fun with our new PushBI Desktop product. We built in the ability to skill the gadgets so you could have a company branded feel on your desktop. Check out some of the mockups we have done already.

You can download the demo PushBI Desktop gadget at www.PUSHBI.com and take it for spin.

Business Intelligence tool for the US Recovery Act

Patrick Husting — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:34:00 GMT

http://www.thenationaldialogue.org/ideas/recovery-tool-on-every-americans-desktop-and-mobile-phone-using-pushbi

The Idea

If we are not careful, we can make tracking the Recovery more complicated and confusing than it needs to be. EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD BE ABLE TO TRACK THE PERFORMANCE OF THE RECOVERY. Our idea is to place a simple tracking tool on the desktop and mobile phone of every American in the United States. PushBI is being used to help businesses track their performance today and will help the government track their performance and provide total transparency to the American people.

What is the National Dialogue?

http://www.thenationaldialogue.org/ this web site is the dialogue around this: What ideas, tools, and approaches can make Recovery.gov a place where the public can monitor the expenditure and use of recovery funds?

www.PUSHBI.com

Top 10 demos for Microsoft BI

Patrick Husting — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:15:00 GMT

This is pretty cool, our PushBI solution make the blog masters #5 business intelligence demo. Right on! Click through the link to check out the whole top 10 but make sure you visit www.PUSHBI.com to find out more information about our new business intelligence solution.

http://blogs.msdn.com/bi/archive/2009/04/23/top-10-demos-for-microsoft-bi.aspx

PushBI Desktop and Windows Mobile - Personalized Business Intelligence

Patrick Husting — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:02:00 GMT

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 as a company, you either innovate or die.

With that said, we have been developing a new business intelligence tool called PushBI, our tool Personalizes Business Intelligence and fills a large gap in desktop monitoring tools along with a mobile business intelligence solution on the Microsoft platform. We had our first successful beta implementation at Microsoft and will roll it out to many other Microsoft groups over the next several months. We are in the process of a soft-launch and informational awareness effort in the United States. Check out our web site at www.PUSHBI.com for more information and download the trial of PushBI and let me know what you think. We are looking for implementation partners in the U.S. and Europe. If you are interested, or know someone who might be, visit our web site and contact us about the opportunities.

Below is a screen shot of the Windows Mobile version of the solution. PushBI also works on BlackBerry, iPhone and Android mobile devices too.

More posts to come on PushBI over the next couple weeks...

Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference Scheduled for 2010

Patrick Husting — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:41:00 GMT

http://www.microsoft.com/bi/

April 8, 2009
In 2009, Microsoft will deliver Business Intelligence content in more places than ever!
We will have significant presence at Tech Ed (May 2009, Los Angeles, CA), at Worldwide Partner Conference (July 2009, New Orleans, LA) the SharePoint Conference (October 2009, Las Vegas, NV) and SQL Server PASS (November 2009, Seattle, WA). The next Microsoft BI Conference will be held in Seattle, WA in October 2010.

Microsoft Business Intelligence Solution Demo Contest

Patrick Husting — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:36:00 GMT

We entered the Microsoft Business Intelligence contest and received a notification today that we made the First Runner Up category. That is pretty cool. We submitted our www.ExtendedCSR.com solution for sustainability reporting. We used the following products:

SharePoint 2007
PerformancePoint 2007 Monitoring and Planning
SQL Server 2008
Analysis Services 2008
Reporting Services 2008
Dundas Chart Controls

Extended CSR is a Corporate Sustainability Reporting solution to help businesses automatically collect energy data, monitor usage and provide reporting to internal and external organizations so that they can understand their carbon footprint impact better. You can find out more at www.ExtendedCSR.com.

Displaying Dates in a PPS Scorecard

Patrick Husting — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:07:00 GMT

You know, Alyson just rocks, but I wish I knew of this last summer....

"It frequently comes up that you may want to show a date in your scorecard, either as an actual value, a target value or just as an extra piece of information such as when was this KPI last updated in the source. One way that you can display dates in your scorecard is to make use of the MDX "Properties" expression. Note, that this will only work for data being sourced from an Analysis Services cube. See the simplistic example below. "

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