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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...
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...
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...
Whilst not changing nappies and singing lullabies, Sacha is developing a .Net mdx helper class that behaves very much like an ADOMD command and runs an mdx query that returns a data table. "Why not just use ADOMD?" I hear you ask - as Sacha...
As reported by David Francis PerformancePoint has a target release to market date of September - seems a little ambitious with CTP4 only coming out a month earlier Ben Tamblyn has also tickled our tastebuds with talk of a UK Business Intelligence Conference...
Quite a stat from Nigel Pendse's OLAP report that CTP2 of PerformancePoint had over 7000 registered participants and over 2100 downloads by May . Whilst of course many of these will be BI/BPM/CPM specialists there still must be a good few customers...
In what will no doubt be a huge cross post of blogs, Ben Tamblyn got there first with the news that the CTP3 of PerformancePoint is now available from the Connect web site. This release is only for the monitoring component - CTP4 will be a Planning release...
These days if you want to keep up with all the latest news and developments (especially in our small little BI world) you need to follow the blogs of those who are in the know. Here are some of our favourites: An idea or two... SSIS expert Colin Kirkby...
Microsoft have acquired the MDM company Stratature http://www.stratature.com/Microsoft/Announce/tabid/260/default.aspx So Kirk Hasselden's hints were as thinly veiled as they seemed after all! He was almost apologetic for not being able to tell us...
Not new news but a useful reminder! http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=2852 SQL 2000 will no longer be supported under standard support agreements after 8th April 2008 (or August 4th depending on how you read the date format!). I'm guessing...