Microsoft Business Intelligence Sale Bootcamp Series
Attend this upcoming series of live web seminars starting December 4th and find out how you can help organizations quickly, effectively, and economically get access to, analyze, report on, and share the information they need to achieve corporate objectives. In this series you will learn how Microsoft Business Intelligence—a complete, fully integrated set of BI technologies, can help reduce the complexity of organizing and distributing information and lead to competitive advantages, overall better decisions, and an improved bottom line.
Understand the Partner Opportunities related to selling and implementing Microsoft Business Intelligence and how you can position Microsoft BI effectively. Learn how to communicate the benefits and demonstrate the capabilities of the Planning as well as the Monitoring and Analytics components of Microsoft PerformancePoint Server 2007 to key Business Decision Makers.
Limited time offer: Be one of the first 160 partners to register & view any 3 of the 7 BI Bootcamp Webcast Series and receive the following groundbreaking book FREE at the end of the promotional period (see website for more details).
Drive Business Performance: Enabling a Culture of Intelligent Execution (Microsoft Executive Leadership Series): This groundbreaking guide provides a deep understanding of how to achieve enterprise performance management objectives, backed up by first-hand accounts from Fortune 500 companies who are winning by building accountability, intelligence, and informed decision-making into their organizational DNA. Drive Business Performance explains the competitive advantage experienced by organizations that create and manage a "Culture of Performance."
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Business Intelligence: BDM and TDM Presentation
Customise this sales presentation to help show your business decision maker and technical decision maker customers how Microsoft business intelligence solutions can improve their businesses.
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BI Demo Contest: (see attachment for Complete Details)
This is a skill-based Contest. The object of this Contest is to offer Microsoft Business Intelligence Partners the opportunity to showcase demos that depict a “day in the life of” scenario that uses the spectrum of Microsoft Business Intelligence including Monitoring, Analysis, Reporting and Planning. On or around the close of the Entry Period (as defined below), eligible winners will be selected based on the judging criteria set forth below. Partners can choose to use the online infrastructure to build the demo. Please visit http://partner.microsoft.com/bi for details including guidance on demo framework.
This Contest ends at 11:59 p.m. PT on December 31, 2008
Up to three (3) Grand Prizes. A prize package consisting of the following:
· An opportunity to feature your demo on a Microsoft Business Intelligence web site http://www.microsoft.com/bi on terms and conditions that we specify.
· An opportunity to feature your demo in a Microsoft Academy Live Web session to the Microsoft field within 60 days of you being selected as the winner, on terms and conditions that we specify.
· An opportunity to receive funding for one (1) 30-day Enterprise Demand Generation Campaign (ARV, $10,000 USD), on terms and conditions that we specify.
For details on Official entry procedures, rules, restrictions and guidelines on registration
go to http://partner.microsoft.com/bi
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Business Builder Events: Build and grow your Business Intelligence & Performance Management Business
Accelerate and grow your Business Intelligence practice by attending this course to refine your strategy and go-to-market approach for delivering BI solutions to customers. This course is designed to help take an existing Business Intelligence Practice to new heights to support your business aspirations. The class focuses on taking an existing practice and making it more productive, and profitable. By using step by step playbooks you will walk through the partner sales cycle, get a refresh on key business principles and best practices. Enjoy as the playbooks align the right Microsoft Partner Program tools at the appropriate time in the business cycle to help you maximize your productivity and relationship with Microsoft.
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Business Intelligence Competency
Learn how to get started on achieving the Performance Management and Business Intelligence Platform Specializations by visiting http://partner.microsoft.com/bi and viewing the specialization requirements
Performance Management Specialization
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Business Intelligence Specialization
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Business Intelligence Role-Based Learning Paths
Use these learning and readiness resources to update your skills or acquire new ones. And expand your knowledge about Microsoft SQL Server and business intelligence (BI) to become more valuable to your customers. You’ll find learning paths designed for you, whether you are in sales or technical presales, or are an implementer or architect.
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Microsoft® Office PerformancePoint™ Server 2007 Planning: Implementation Workshop I (BPIO U Business Intelligence Series)
The four and half day PerformancePoint Server 2007 Planning: Implementation Workshop I course walks through setup of a budgeting solution for an enterprise level entity. Company and business scenarios are presented to the students with requirements and budget assumptions, offering a discussion on how to prepare for a Planning implementation. As part of the class deliverables, students will create an application, set up dimensions, models and load data. Profit and Loss budget input forms are built, including sub ledger detail forms such as Human Resources and Revenue modeling. Business rules are defined to further customize the input forms. Students will set up Security and define processes to replicate a real world user experience. Reports are designed in various formats to show the end results needed to analyze the planning information.
Planning Implementation Workshop I is recommended for all professionals who will be administering or implementing Planning. This course is designed for the Hybrid role, or power user, who is a business analyst with technical skills.
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Planning Series I in Microsoft® Office PerformancePoint™ Server 2007 eLearning Course (BPIO U Business Intelligence Track)
Can’t make one of the in-person classes? Take the class via our eLearning option. This collection covers the set up of a budgeting solution for a single currency, enterprise company. Company and business scenarios are presented with budgeting assumptions. Students begin by creating the application and step through creating dimensions, loading data, and designing input forms and reports. Students design a sales and human resources sub ledger and then move the data down to the final profit and loss budget. Business rules are created for calculation purposes.
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| ExamCram Webcast: How to Prepare for the Performance Management Exam 70-556 (Microsoft Office Performance Point Server 2007): ON-DEMAND! |
| Has your management recently informed you that your firm will be pursuing the new Microsoft BI Competency/Performance Management Specialization…and YOU are one of the consultants that will be taking the exam on behalf of the firm. Or perhaps you’ve known for some time that you would be taking the exam, and you’ve spent time studying/preparing and now you want to validate that you are well prepared. In either case, this “cramcast” is for you. For those who are in the earlier stages of preparation, we’ll be reviewing all of the materials that you should know about as you set out to prepare for the exam (webcasts, Labcasts, instructor led training, books, etc.). For those that are further along in your preparations, we’ll drill down in a little more into detail on the actual content that will be covered on the exam itself so that you can validate your level of confidence and knowledge in key topics BEFORE the actual exam. Lastly, we’ll review the US MSPP Back To School Program, under which your firm may be eligible for free exam vouchers. Watch it Today |
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Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Labcast
The PerformancePoint Server 2007 Labcast Series is taken from a live, four-day, instructor-led event and is approximately 25 hours in length. A labcast is a series of hosted Hands On Labs coupled with accompanying minute instructor led videos. Students flip back and forth from the video to the lab as if they were in the classroom. You are encouraged to do one or multiple labs at a time, and then return for more labs at your convenience. Visit the following link to get started:
Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Technical Training - Labcast
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Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Implementation Web Series! Now Available On-Demand!
This three-part webcast series will introduce partners to the Microsoft Consulting Services’ Performance management Center of Excellence (PM-CoE).
The PM-CoE is responsible for documenting implementation methodology and best practices for Performance Point Server 2007.
The first two presentations will take partners through the suggested phases of a generic PerformancePoint Server M&A and Planning implementation; what to look out for – and the “do’s” and the “don’ts”. In addition, a webcast detailing Microsoft’s internal implementation of PerformancePoint Server 2007 is also included.
Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007: M&A Implementation Methodologies and Best Practices
Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007: Planning Implementation Methodologies and Best Practices
Microsoft Finance Case Study: PerformancePoint Server 2007 Planning Implementation Do’s and Don’ts
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Downloadable Implementation Plans
This guide contains detailed information about how to plan a deployment of Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007.
The PerformancePoint Server Implementation Guide consists of 12 Microsoft Office documents (templates, projects, and worksheets) that can help you plan your implementation of PerformancePoint Server. Start with the Project Plan Framework presentation for a detailed introduction to the tasks involved in implementing PerformancePoint and for guidance on how to most effectively use the templates. Included in the guide are templates for configuration planning, training, requirements gathering, and a plan for a personalized operations and maintenance plan. Click here to get started.
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