Office Zealot

Business Intelligence is out there, everywhere.  Sometimes, you just need to look for it. A perfect example is the cover story in the current Fortune magazine.  It's an article on a website, www.zillow.com, that allows you to see the value of your home (type in your address and see all the data!) -- even in the context of your enitre ...

We're a couple of weeks into the new year.  It's a good time to check your dashboards!  The new year brings a clean slate for data... and, often times, trouble.  Here are some application errors you should think about while building dashboards that are time (year) sensitive and what problems may arise if the proper business logic is ...

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.  ...