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As Sacha has mentioned, he, Jeremy and I will all be attending the BI conference in less than two weeks time in Seattle. Last year was a great chance to meet some of the BI community and attend some really good BI sessions but was (unsurprisingly...
Users love pretty things! Especially upper management who have minions to actually make sense of the numbers behind the reports for them ;) Out of the box Reporting Services reports look anything but pretty! Here's few tips to make your bosses happy...
Christmas came early last week when a copy of the First PPS book to be published dropped through our letter box - Thanks Nick and Adrian :) For those of you aren't familiar with Rational Guides the format is designed to get you up and running with...
The latest version of SQL Books Online details the features of Reporting Services that are available in Sharepoint Integration mode and, more importantly, the features that aren't!! Be careful if you plan to migrate as there are some surprising omissions...
Update: Version 1.1 is now available So the Adatis dev team have been busy ! As I mentioned in a previous post , one of our clients wanted to be able to show a user's active PPS Planning assignments in their Sharepoint Portal in the same way you can...
Microsoft's first Technology preview of their upcoming MDM product will be available from tomorrow. More details on how to participate can be found in Kirk Hasselden's blog Rumours are it's all going to be based around SharePoint...
Update: The web part is now in beta test - more here When you install the PerformancePoint add-in for Excel it also installs the PerformancePoint Server protocol handler. This allows you to send out hyperlinks for assignments in e-mails etc so that users...
One of the BI/BPM world's worst kept secrets is officially announced - SAP has bought Business Objects for $6.8, billion nearly twice as much as Oracle bought Hyperion for. There were some (aherm) who thought this was just a rumour to inflate BOBJ's...
Everybody hates documentation but this is a really neat, free tool for modeling multi-dimensional databases and is particularly suited to MSAS 2005. ADAPT™ (Application Design for Analytical Processing Technologies) from Symmetry Corporation is a Visio...
It's been a busy week combining a release in my current project with getting out and about in the community! Wednesday evening was the SQL BI user group. Suranjan Som of IM Group gave a very good presentation on Data Mining using Microsoft's toolkit...
The first "official" release of PPS Server 2007 is now available on MS public downloads, albeit an evaluation copy x86 x64 I've not installed it yet so not sure whether there's anything in that didn't make it to CTP 4 but Nick Barclay...
As Sacha posted the other day the UK launch for PerformancePoint Server is on the 16th October and it looks like we'll be getting a proper do like the US with Dr Robert Kaplan presenting. Bruno Aziza will also be making the trip over as will Peter...
For those of you who, like us, took the plunge and went for running a 64-bit PerformancePoint program, the wait is now over and CTP4 is now available on the connect site. Technorati Tags: Performancepoint
Chris Webb has already mentioned this but looks like registration for the next UK SQL BI user group evening is now open (Look for events on the right). Edenbrook's Mark Hill (SQL 2008) and IMG's Suranjan Som (Data mining) are presenting. If that's...
From Ben Tamblyn - The CTP4 for PerformancePoint is now on the connect site. Couple of things to note from the read-mes and doco: This is just the 32-bit release - 64-bit will be out next week due to a performance issue being resolved. If you're still...
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