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Excel Dashboards
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over 7 years ago
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The Dashboard Spy has been reporting on how people are using Excel to provide nice looking dashboards that help them keep their businesses smoothly. He/She has also posted about the upcoming Excel 2007 which adds more features for presenting Business...
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SQL Server has lower TCO than Oracle
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And I can prove it. It's cheaper to administer . It's cheaper to develop on . Is there a god? Yes, and he's generous with that TCO!
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Upgrade MSDE to SQL Server 2005 Express Edition
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Why the heck are you still running MSDE when you can use SQL Server 2005 Express Edition? For those of you how don't know MSDE, it is the free lightweight version of SQL Server 2000 which developers typically use to build applications on. It's good...
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Deliver scheduled reports to a printer
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I found this excellent article on MSDN which describes how to create an application that will deliver scheduled reports to a network printer automatically. You need to have the Reporting Services sample kit installed from which you build the application...
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CIOs: BI more important than security
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Interesting excerpt from InformationWeek: A Gartner survey of 1,400 CIOs earlier this year found that business intelligence was their top IT prior ity, surpassing even security. The average company has between six and 10 business intelligence products...
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Upcoming Business Intelligence Webcasts
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These are well worth a look: Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) Using the Kimball Method (Level 200) Today 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time Designing a Scalable Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence (DW/BI) System (Level 200) June...
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Beefing up Business Intelligence in Office - PerformancePoint Server 2007
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As well as the cool new Business Intelligence features in the traditional Office applications like Excel, we are releasing a new product in mid-2007 called PerformancePoint Server 2007 which will make Business Intelligence more accessible to companies;...
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Hands-on lab for Business Intelligence
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At the end of this month in Los Angeles, MS Events are running a Business Intelligence Hands-on lab where you can get experience about how to create the following: An Analysis Services cube A SQL Server 2005 Integration Services package SQL...
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Microsoft's Business Intelligence Strategy
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So what have Microsoft got in store when it comes to BI? Well, quite a bit actually! Lewis Levin, VP of Office Business Applications shares his vision for the BI platform during a Q&A with Microsoft PressPass and covers off the following topics: ...
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How and when to use mirroring in SQL Server 2005
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Having released mirroring in Service Pack 1 for SQL Server 2005, we've followed up by providing a paper on when and where to use this feature. Read Database Mirroring Best Practices and Performance Considerations .
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Selling SQL Server as a Database Platform
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"This Sales Academy focuses on giving you all the knowledge and information you need when talking to your customers about their database platform requirements. Our experienced Partner Technical Specialists, who work with customers and Partners every day...
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PTS-TV: New Episode
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over 7 years ago
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Watch Dave Sayers give the lowdown on Virtualisation: http://www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/blog/pts-tv/
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Cartesis announces support for Office PerformancePoint Server 2007
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Cartesis, who are the recognised leader in Finance and performance management software, has announced support for the new Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 through integration with Business Scorecard Manager (BSM) 2005. BSM 2005 will be a core component...
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Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Everywhere Edition CTP
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Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Everywhere Edition (SQL Server Everywhere) is designed for developers who need light weight, in process relational database solution for their applications that can be developed and deployed on desktop as well as on mobile devices...
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The Future of querying data
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I just finished watching a Channel 9 video on the future of querying data using Visual Studio. It's really interesting stuff because it shows the way Microsoft is intending to abstract the developer away from individual data providers and their related...
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Download IE Beta 3
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