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Welcome to my blog! I'll be covering a variety of topics pertaining to Business Intelligence, ranging from charts and infographics I've found that I think are stellar, to down-and-dirty technical details that I've used while delivering projects for my customers. I'm really interested...
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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 in January 2006 and the last 3 years of sales...
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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 did we do it? We processed 6 months of data into...
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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 the new in-memory BI solution from Microsoft...
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Just clicking through the links and noticed we are highlighted on the Microsoft BI blog site. Very cool. http://www.microsoft.com/bi/biresources/
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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
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A good colleague of mine over at Microsoft, Bruno Aziza , gave me a call on a Sunday night to discuss Extended Results partnering with Microsoft on the development of a World Cup Social Media Analytics web page. Bruno chose us because we have technologies to capture the social conversation...
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Thu, Jun 10 2010
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Filed under: Microsoft, SQL, Cool Site, Marketing, Article, UI/UX, Visualization, Random Thoughts, Business Intelligence, BLOG, SilverLight, Infographics, Data Mining, C#, Social Media Analytics, Office 2010, World Cup
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Microsoft approached us about using our Social Media BI extractor solution in a World Cup scenario. We stepped up to the plate and are in the process of building out our World Cup Social Media Analytics page. We utilize a Social Media Extractor solution we have that tracks keywords...
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We are in the process of creating a Retail Business Intelligence Experience for a customer as you can see from below. We take a very HIGH END approach to the experience and graphics when dealing with business intelligence data. Below you will see a 3D layout of a store footprint. Then...
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Thu, Jun 3 2010
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Filed under: Microsoft, SQL, SharePoint, UI/UX, Visualization, Business Intelligence, SilverLight, Dashboards, C#, Office 2010, Retail
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We upgraded our PushBI product to support the iPad when it launched. But when playing with the iPad, it does make an excellent device for accessing existing enterprise reporting solutions from Business Objects, Microsoft, IBM and many others. With a lot of the mobile business intelligence...
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We just released our PushBI mobile business intelligence product onto the iPad. The iPad is really a great device that pretty much eliminates the need for a netbook. We up scaled our PushBI product onto it with ease and got it through the Apple appstore and pushed out to customers...
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Just got an invite to try out Office Web Applications through Skydrive. So I can take my Office 2010 document, save it to Skydrive and then collaborate on it. Very nice! Now I can publish my BI reports onto the internet and share with all. I’ll be doing some later posts...
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We have a great partner in South America that is promoting our PushBI mobile business intelligence solution as part of their services offerings. They have done just a tremendous job. They are located in Argentina, but they service the southern continent. Check them out if you...
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We have been doing a lot of work on pulling social media data into the enterprise and using it against our traditional data warehouses to find some new insights. It can be quite interesting to pull twitter traffic on a product and tying that to retail sales and seeing the correlation between the...
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Microsoft Business Intelligence Blog
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Patrick Husting
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Tue, May 11 2010
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Filed under: Microsoft, SQL, SharePoint, Marketing, Office 14, Business Intelligence, SilverLight, Data Mining, Social Media Analytics, Twitter
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I don’t know about you, but all the so called “DASHBOARD” solutions I have been seeing the last several years are really not well designed. What happened to the creative minded people? We have been very busy working on a new retail business intelligence portal leveraging a lot of different...
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Microsoft Business Intelligence Blog
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Patrick Husting
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Thu, May 6 2010
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Filed under: PerformancePoint Server, Database, Microsoft, SharePoint, Excel, UI/UX, Visualization, Office 14, Business Intelligence, Infographics, C#