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    February 26

    Jason Morales' Microsoft BI Update v.17 - February

    Contents:
    Training: online and regional options
    Resources: whitepapers, case studies, datasheets, webcasts, books, etc
     
     
    Hot Topics
     
     
    Subscribe to learn more about Gartner’s 2008 Magic Quadrant for BI Platforms
     
    Training: Microsoft BI Bootcamps
    Seattle, WA: 3/10-13
    Click here for more info
     
    Minneapolis, MN: 5/19-23
    Beaverton, OR: 6/9-13
    Click here for more info
     
     
    Upcoming Events
     
    Managing Performance with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint
    When: Feb 28, 9-11am (PST)
    Where: Mountain View, CA
    Click here to register
     
    The Value of Business Intelligence
    When: March 13
    Where: Seattle, WA
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    Gartner BI Summit
    When: April 1-3
    Where: Chicago, IL
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    Microsoft BI Conference
    When: Oct 6-8
    Where: Seattle, WA
     
     
     
    Upcoming Webcasts
     
    PerformancePoint Server Webcast Demo
    Click here to register:
     
    Intellinet Webcast
    Business Intelligence Demystified
    When: Feb 27 @ 10am (PST)
    Click here to register
     
    TechNet Webcast
    Advanced Dashboard Creation with PerformancePoint Server 2007 (Level 300)
    When: March 28 @ 8am (PST)
    Click here to register
     
     
    Training
     
    PerformancePoint Server 2007 Training Sites
     
    Business Intelligence Education Services
    Microsoft BI Bootcamp (3 day) - click here for more info
     
    BI Courses, including SQL 2005, PPS and ProClarity
    Microsoft BI Bootcamp (5 day) - click here for more info
     
    Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Monitoring & Analytics
     
    ProClarity Training
     
    Online & Instructor led
     
    Partner Program – webcasts
    Online Training Webcasts - (keyword =  performancepoint)
     
     
    Resources
     
    Microsoft BI
     
    PerformancePoint Server 2007
     
    Flash Demo: Virtual Experience
     
    Books on PerformancePoint Server 2007
     
    On-Demand Webcasts ‘with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server’:
     
    Sample Data : Monitoring, Planning
    Data Import Wizard for Microsoft Dynamics AX Tool here
    Scorecard Migration Tool here
     
     
    ProClarity
    Technical Forum: ProClarity
     
    PerformancePoint 2007 Management Reporter
     
    SQL Server 2005
     
    SQL Server 2008
     
    Analysis Services
     
    SharePoint Server 2007
     
    Data Mining
     
    Dynamics
     
    Microsoft & BI Blogs
    Intelligent Insight on PerformancePoint – PerformancePoint Server
    Adrian Downe’s Blog – Great 7 Part Series on PPS Planning Features!
    Nick Barclay’s BI Blog –PerformancePoint Server resources
    Chris Webb’s BI Blog – MDXtreme Programming
    Vidas Matelis BI Blog – SQL 2005 resources
    Microsoft OLAP by Mosha Pasumansky – Deep Insights into SSAS & MDX
    Prologika (Teo Lachev’s Weblog) – Reporting Services insights
    The Data Puzzle – Solving the Enterprise Data Puzzle with Microsoft BI
     
    OLAP Report - summaries
     
     
    Analyst Reports
     
    Try out a business intelligence virtual lab to test out the technology stack, including:
    • Analysis Services
    • Excel 2007
    • Business Scorecard Manager 2005 (BSM)
    • ProClarity
    • Report Builder
    • Integration Services
    • Data Mining
     
    Technet Virtual Labs
     
     
    News Links & Press Releases
     
     
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    Jason Morales
    Solution Specialist - Microsoft Business Intelligence
    Office: (208) 319-2273
    Mobile: (208) 949-4365
     
     
     
     
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    February 09

    Microsoft Gets Gartner's Business Intelligence Top Ranking

    Microsoft Gets Gartner's Business Intelligence Top Ranking
     
    The company makes a surprise leap ahead of Business Objects and Cognos in its ability to execute on BI products and pricing.
    By Mary Hayes Weier
    InformationWeek
    February 5, 2008 03:34 PM
    Business Objects and Cognos have long been considered the leaders in business intelligence platforms. But in a surprising new report, Gartner ranks Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) ahead of those companies in its ability to execute.
     
     
     
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    February 08

    New Microsoft BI Blog on MSDN

    Welcome to what we hope will become the definitive blog on business intelligence, THE BI Blog.  Not too huge of a goal or vision, huh?  There are already some great blogs out there on all different aspects of business intelligence and performance management--from those dedicated to showing how to build applications, to those that take a more business oriented approach to the discipline of BI and EPM.  Our expectation is that we'll have a little bit of both sides of the fence represented in this blog as we kick-it off and establish what's fast becoming the biggest community in the industry around Microsoft BI solutions.
    Microsoft is doing some great things in business intelligence, and whether it's from the customer, partner, developer, implementer, or marketing side of things, we'll be on top of it here to ensure you're up to speed on this fast growing business.
    Off we go!
    Guy Weismantel
     
     
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