Office Zealot

Kudos to one of my clients for being quoted in a recent eWeek articled entitled ''BI Skills are in Demand'' (http://www.careers.eweek.com/article/BI+Skills+are+in+Demand/214388_1.aspx).  This is a great piece on the state of the BI resource pool... especially as we approach the lauch of PerformancePoint Server.  It's not enough to say ...

I got the word yesterday that I was selected as a Technical Expert in the Business Intelligence track at this year's TechEd (http://www.microsoft.com/events/teched2007/default.mspx).  It's a nice honor.  If you're coming to Orlando in June, stop by and say hello.  I'll be there (in the BI area) talking up my new favorite product, ...

One of the big deliveries from Microsoft in 2007 will be PerformancePoint Server.  I'm proud to say that I'm co-authoring an article on PerformancePoint with Patrick Husting (www.bimvp.com).  We'll lay out some of the basics and provide good detail on new features.  If you haven't seen anything on it, check out Patrick's site.  ...