Business Intelligence

Just found this very nice online presentation by Stephen Elop, President of Microsoft's Business Division. He lays out his vision of how Microsoft can help increase productivity in our daily lives. In this economy, companies that step forward and show Read More...

Hey everyone, Microsoft has posted a series of great short videos focused on Business Intelligence techologies. The series is called "How Do I BI". Most of the videos are 5-15 minutes in length so they're easy to watch and learn from in whatever free Read More...

I ran across this very cool demo of the future of business intelligence! The video below has a demo of the BI demo system called "Falcon Eye". It utilizes Microsoft Surface to overlay KPIs, scorecards, and other data visualization on a three dimensional Read More...

Microsoft is making some great progress with its SQL Server 2008 Data Services initiative. The latest addition to the line-up of data services available online is data mining! You can access the beta version of the data mining tools in the cloud by visiting Read More...

If you're a SharePoint administrator, you might be asking yourself if there is any reason to upgrade from SQL Server 2005 to 2008. Actually, there 10+ great reasons to rush out and do this today! Check out this blog post by Joel Oleson. There are some Read More...