April 2008 - Posts

The vBusiness Expo in Second Life
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 Read More...
Posted 26 April 08 05:51 by datafusion | 0 Comments   
Two new PerformancePoint blogs that I'm excited to tell you about
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 a Read More...
Posted 25 April 08 07:26 by datafusion | 0 Comments   
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Using Visualization to aid analysis
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. Read More...
Posted 12 April 08 07:15 by datafusion | 1 Comments   
Data visualization using Virtual Earth
Watch the full presentation here . Hat tip to The BI Blog . Read More...
Posted 12 April 08 03:21 by datafusion | 0 Comments   
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First Business Intelligence sizer for SQL Server 2005 by HP
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 Read More...
Posted 11 April 08 12:06 by datafusion | 0 Comments   
New White Paper on Performance Tuning with PerformancePoint Server 2007
"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 scalability Read More...
Posted 07 April 08 08:43 by datafusion | 1 Comments   
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BI research tool suite that focuses on Natural Language Processing
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's Read More...
Posted 07 April 08 08:20 by datafusion | 0 Comments   
Arrington describes Twitter as an Early Stage Warning System for Brands and Companies
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 Read More...
Posted 07 April 08 05:13 by datafusion | 0 Comments   
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Check out TweetStats
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 some interesting stats, Read More...
Posted 07 April 08 01:26 by datafusion | 0 Comments   
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Sun’s Java Loses to Microsoft’s .NET in monitoring weapons sales
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 Program. Read More...
Posted 07 April 08 12:07 by datafusion | 0 Comments   
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I’m a Twitter-er
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 Read More...
Posted 04 April 08 02:53 by datafusion | 2 Comments   
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