I'm quite certain that more people are trying to cure Swine Flu than will every catch it. I'm also reasonably certain I'll end up regretting saying that. However, its interesting to see how a multitude of more modern technology is being applied to the...

Some interesting insights from Dan Rasmus on Productivity, Efficiency and Patient Care at the NHS. Measuring productivity gains in meaningful and tangible business oriented outcomes is an ongoing challenge. "It isn’t good enough to create correlations...

This article from freshbusinessthinking.com would suggest it could be. http://www.freshbusinessthinking.com/business_advice.php?AID=2375&Title=SharePoint+Steers+Companies+Through+Economic+Downturn SharePoint forms the cornerstone of Microsoft's Business...

If there are two things we're all desperate to save right now it is money and the environment. How fortunate it is, therefore, that by enabling the workforce to work from any place and at any time Unified Communications technology can save both travel...

I think our BI vision is one of the most clearly defined market visions Microsoft has. I also think that it is a market where we can really add value and change the dynamics of the market. Making BI commercially viable enough for every employee to utilize...

Somehow the BI team seem to corner some of our most exciting demos. Thanks to Nic for compiling this top-ten list in one place. http://blogs.msdn.com/bi/archive/2009/04/23/top-10-demos-for-microsoft-bi.aspx As a side note,  its worth noting that...

While no one is under any doubt whether that we are now experiencing a set of economic conditions we have not experienced for a generation (if not more), there is a growing debate on the nature of these conditions and for how long we should plan for "recovery"...

With the endless resurrection of the "ghosts of 1929" I'm starting to believe that even the dead have failed to miss the economic events of the past few weeks. Typically, in times of economic uncertainty and downturn, IT braces itself for an uncomfortable...

Seth calls out a number of functions that most people could use to become more productive. Seth calls these out to call people to learn how to use the technology at their fingertips. He asks "Can you imagine someone who works in a factory that processes...

"BI applications do not exist in isolation - they are an integral part of what Forrester calls Information Workplace, which involves many other applications such as collaboration, portals, search, office applications and others. While many BI vendors...

You can check out the full release on our next wave of BI here: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/oct08/10-06BI08PR.mspx It's great to see this kind of vision so early. And it's also incredibly timely. If the credit crisis has taught us anything...

The BI Team are having something of an exciting week this week at the BI Conference. There have been a number of exciting announcements this week and it's great to see this kind of recognition from Forrester. One of the most important aspects of any BI...

Nearly half of Britons -- 44 percent -- are discomgoogolation sufferers, according to a survey, with over a quarter -- 27 percent -- admitting to rising stress levels when they are unable to go online. Interesting statistics. It appears that not having...

Another good spot from Steve. I blogged about Software Consumarization before. The Unilever example is not atypical. Businesses from all walks of life are finding it challenging to integrate a digitally enabled workforce into an organization viewed...

There's been much press on this lately. We've long held that whilst there's a future in cloud computing and software-as-a-service, the current limitations in reliability and privacy mean a pure-play cloud solution is unlikely to ever be truly viable....

I'm a little tardy picking this one up... http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07/business_intell_2.html?cid=RSSfeed_IWK_ALL ... but I love stories like this. BI is very much a productivity exercise.  In this case it's more about...

Soon we will have all the WPC sessions online @ www.microsoft.com/digitalwpc The two BPI breakouts are "The Chemical Synapse" and "Sales Execution Packages - New Ways to Promote Cross-Capability and Integrated Business Productivity Platform...

Good find by Jason. In line with my previous post, customers have far greater expectations on how rapidly organizations can react to their needs. That can range from delivering a product to replying to e-mail. One very powerful tool that BPI offers is...

In IBM's "The Enterprise of the Future" there is a profile of "financial outperformers" and "underperformers" driven by research from the Global CEO Study series. This is accompanied by the statement "financial outperformers...

Thanks to all the partners who attended WPC this year and to stop by the booth - especially those of you who were interested in more than getting their stars and their hands on our bouncing balls! I had some great conversations with people by the booth...

Examining the Oxford English Dictionary, there are more definitions than one might expect. It's no surprise, therefore, with so many definitions of "search" in the English language, that defining it in the context of a technology solution and...

Thanks to Pej for posting this one. It really is a good demonstration of how each of the five capabilities of BPI work best when they are applied together to provide this kind of synergy. It adds weight to the argument that you can't do BI without having...

Some interesting thoughts from InformationWeek. Collaboration is a challenge/solution/capability applied to a variety of business processes. One that's increasingly common is innovation. There's a very definite momentum gathering in the formalization...

Putting our money where our mouth is...     Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 to provide native support for ODF and PDF document format standards

We're really excited to have the opportunity to present at this year's Microsoft WorldWide Partner Conference in Houston. The topic of Bernard's presentation will be: Become a “Chemical Synapse”. Use the combined proposition of BPIO and Microsoft’s...