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...
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. I found the chart easy to understand but...
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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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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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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We have been working with the Microsoft Online Business for quite some time on a SilverLight BI client. They are all about interactive experiences over there and we created a killer business intelligence application for them. Check out the screen shot below. This has to be one of the...
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. There are smarter people than me out there who...
We have been playing around with the beta version with some VERY limited success and now they have rolled out the v1.0 product just a few weeks later. I really like the concept of using SilverLight for BI dashboards, we have built a couple custom SL dashboards/BI tools over the...