Learn how DP World gained real-time insight into their business DP World, one of the largest marine terminal operators with more than 65 terminals across six continents, has recently implemented a Business Intelligence (BI) solution in partnership with Altis Consulting and Microsoft. The company now...

I have recently had the opportunity to present on the topic of BigData at several forums including the DW 2.0 Asia-Pac Summit and at the Microsoft Big Picture event. At both these events there were sceptics of BigData and as such I thought I might write this blog post. I must agree partly though with...

I see this occur quite often and even I keep on repeating this mistake – when it comes to setting up the Report Server URL and Report URL properties for a Reporting Services based report (in SharePoint integrated mode) in Performance Point Services Dashboard Designer. I will quite often just copy and...

  HP Business Decision Appliance Quick Start Offer - Make better, faster, more relevant business decisions with the HP Business Decision Appliance The HP Business Decision Appliance, optimized for SQL Server 2008 R2 and SharePoint Server 2010, has been designed together with Microsoft to empower...

My blog post on the Australian IT news site has gone live, and can be found at - http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/ontheradar/index.php/australian-it/comments/to_bi_or_not_to_bi/ . Please provide your feedback and comments.

As part of the BIEB series, a short video of mine explaining Microsoft's BI capability has been published on The Australian newspaper website. Hope you find it informative and quickly summarises the concept of PowerPivot coming out shortly in SQL Server 2008 R2. Link to video: http://player.video...

PerformancePoint server virtual labs on TECHNET Learn how to create dashboards end to end and use different data sources. Select the labs with PerformancePoint in the title. Link to more detail: http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/ technetoffice.aspx?tab=virtuallabs Management Reporter...