Technorati Tags: PerformancePoint Server , BI , Design , business , intelligence From the abstract : “This white paper provides guidance and best practices for the decision makers who are involved in designing and building a Microsoft PerformancePoint...

Technorati Tags: Access 2007 , GCN Government Computer News is a highly regarded source that covers IT news within the federal government. GCN Labs regularly test and review software, and came just published a very favorable review of Access 2007. Congratulations...

Information management often includes incorporating Geospatial data via a mapping platform. Ask.com has chosen Microsoft Virtual Earth as their new mapping platform, which makes everyone here in Redmond really happy! Chris Pendleton explains more about...

Wordle is a lot of fun to use if you’re a data visualization geek like I am. I took Gartner’s October 2007 report on PerformancePoint Server 2007, selected the Key Points, and copied and pasted it into the Wordle Web page. Wordle works by turning text...

Kudos to everyone who had a hand in redesigning the Office Online portal page for all things PerformancePoint, including Service Pack 1, A list of Community Blogs, Tutorials, and How To pages for a variety of Monitoring and Planning topics. Help for PerformancePoint...

As most of us who are involved with organizing data know, Microsoft Outlook is a frequently used tool for many people across the enterprise. So why not use it to view your deployed Microsoft PerformancePoint Server 2007 dashboard as well? We’re now...

Blogger friend Nick Barclay has written a great post about this topic at his blog. The ability to import a Web page into the dashboard to supplement other report types as well as the scorecard is a great way to express important metrics in ways that you...

Will you be attending this free virtual event ? I’ll be checking it out in a few minutes. In the meantime, here’s a video to give you a taste of what’s possible in terms of sharing information across a virtual 3D platform like Second Life, compliments...

Alan Whitehouse's Ramblings Alan works for TGO Consulting and is Microsoft-certified in PerformancePoint Server 2007. I was pointed to his blog by Microsoft MVP Adrian Downes , who co-wrote two excellent books on the subject, and to whom I STILL owe...

I love this approach to mapping and visualizing data to enhance analysis created by IntellectSpace . Click on the picture to see how IntellectSpace works. Hat tip to the excellent Sources and Methods for pointing me to it.

Watch the full presentation here . Hat tip to The BI Blog .

From the HP website: “The HP Business Intelligence Sizer for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is an automated tool that helps determine the appropriate hardware configuration for a database server used in a data warehousing ROLAP (Relational Online Analytical...

"PerformancePoint Planning Server Performance Tuning" Executive Summary: "Planning Server is part of Microsoft ® Office PerformancePoint ™ Server 2007. This white paper is for analysts and IT professionals who want guidance about Planning Server...

While I'm happy to see NLP put to such good use in this search tool for financial research professionals, I'm not as floored by it as Marshall Kirkpatrick is. The fact that they're collecting subscription fees of $10K per year per user tells me that there...

Michael Arrington (TechCrunch) lost his Comcast Internet service a couple of days ago. After 36 hours of exasperation with Comcast customer service runarounds, he vented his frustration about it on Twitter. Since Michael is one of the highest profile...

TweetStats is a remarkable little gem built on Ruby on Rails that will graph your tweets (or those of any Twitterer), measuring: Timeline Aggregate DailyTweets Aggregate Hourly Tweets Replies Interface Used If you really want to see...

This news comes from Defense Industry Daily : The Defense Security Assistance Management System (and see DISAM Journal 2000 review ) is a worldwide automated information system that is used for managing the USA’s multi-billion Foreign Military Sales...

I’m new at it , but I’m convinced that Twitter offers bloggers a tremendous opportunity to create networks of readers (or "followers" in Twitter-speaki) through what ReadWriteWeb has described as “one of the fastest growing application ecosystems of any...

I just finished reading Richards J. Heuer Jr.'s ISA paper " Taxonomy of Structured Analytic Techniques " and I'm pleased to see that the process formerly known as Alternative Analysis, sometimes called Red Teaming, has been renamed "Structured...

A growing number of businesses are exploring commercial opportunities in a variety of virtual worlds, including Second Life, Gaia, and Whyville, among others. KZERO Research has prepared a chart which lists the corporations and the Virtual Worlds that...

Planning Help: How do I ... Roadmap: How do I write a business rule? How do I export data with an outbound rule? How do I use an association to move data between models? PeformancePoint Planning Server capabilities? See more Planning "How do I"...

The March, 2008 issue of Communications of the ACM has some fascinating articles, one of which I mentioned in my previous post. Another one is “Peer-based Computer-supported Knowledge Refinement: An Empirical Investigation” by Kwangsu Cho, Tingting Rachel...

Phillip Armour has written a very insightful article entitled "The Inaccurate Conception" for this month's Communications of the ACM (subscription required). The construction of estimates is a tough challenge for analysts, and, as Armour points out, for...

Congratulations to those who made the top 100. 1 Web Strategy by Jeremiah 10 30 29 19 88 2 Compete Blog 12 30 26 19 87 3 James Governor’s MonkChips 14 29 19...

BLEWS is a Microsoft Research tool in the prototype stage which uses a variety of sophisticated tools to add several layers of intelligence to what we're used to getting at Memeorandum or other news aggregators. It was recently showcased to the press...