Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference (May 9th - 11th 2007)
Here's some early information about Microsoft's BI conference planned for May 9th. With the release of SQL Server 2005, Business Scorecard Manager 2005, the 2007 Office system, the ProClarity...
View ArticlePerformancePoint Server Data Sheets
Thanks to Patrick Husting who posted these (PDFs)which includes product data sheets: overview, analytics, monitoring, reporting, and planning.PerformancePointServer 2007 Overview - [download]...
View ArticlePerformance Management Training and Enablement - QuickStart Programme
This was announced internally at Microsoft just before the holidays by Jodi Maupin the OBA Partner Marketing Manager. I've reviewed some of the existing training and whilst it's not for the...
View ArticleSQL Server 2005 BI Training
Amazingly this has only just become available. Perhaps everyone in the UK understands SQL BI so well that we didn't need to publish training options until 18 months after launch. I know this has been...
View ArticleMicrosoft Partner Love-in: Valentines Day
OK - so if you haven't booked in for the Microsoft Business Intelligence Partner Day/Love-in you're probably too late. But for those who can't make it due to the fact that you're not in the UK I'll...
View ArticleFine Tuning SQL Server 2005
Here's a link to the SQL Server Best Practices Analyser (BPA). In short it provides guidance for OLAP database analysis and recommendations for fine-tuning performance.Technorati tags: SQL Server...
View ArticleKimball is coming
This guy is rarely in town and this is actually quite a unique opportunity to get your fix of dimensional modeling and learn from the godfather of BI. Thanks to Emma for the heads up.Dr. Ralph Kimball...
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