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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.technet.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Geeky Girl : Business Intelligence</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/jessmeats/archive/tags/Business+Intelligence/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Business Intelligence</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>BI Seminar</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/jessmeats/archive/2009/09/14/bi-seminar.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:19:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3280868</guid><dc:creator>JessMeats</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/jessmeats/comments/3280868.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.technet.com/jessmeats/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3280868</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P&gt;A Microsoft partner Blueprint are putting on a seminar about the Microsoft Business Intelligence offering. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;A href="http://s211.photobucket.com/albums/bb79/punctuationprecise/?action=view&amp;amp;current=BLPR_logo.png" target=_blank&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 12pt" class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"&gt;Microsoft BI Seminar | Affordable BI for your whole organisation&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman"&gt; &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;Tuesday 6 October | 9.30am-12.00pm &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;A complimentary seminar focusing on Microsoft BI, and how you can enhance your existing Microsoft product suite to&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"&gt; &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"&gt;achieve more intuitive business operations. PLUS:&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"&gt; &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;LI style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list 36.0pt" class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"&gt;Learn how to blend all of your BI reporting strategy documents and content&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
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&lt;LI style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: list 36.0pt" class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"&gt;See how SharePoint, Excel and Reporting Services can be used to design and build more&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"&gt;&lt;FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"&gt; &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"&gt;powerful Dashboards and Analytical applications &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"&gt;Registration&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"&gt; &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"&gt;If you would like to register for this complimentary event &lt;U&gt;&lt;A href="http://bpms.co.uk/events/MicrosoftBIRegistration_October2009.aspx" mce_href="http://bpms.co.uk/events/MicrosoftBIRegistration_October2009.aspx"&gt;click here&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/U&gt; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"&gt;Want to know more?&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"&gt; &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"&gt;To learn more about Microsoft BI and Blueprint &lt;U&gt;&lt;A href="http://bpms.co.uk/documents/Microsoft-BI-FactSheet.pdf" mce_href="http://bpms.co.uk/documents/Microsoft-BI-FactSheet.pdf"&gt;click here &amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/U&gt; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"&gt;&lt;BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"&gt;&lt;BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3280868" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/jessmeats/archive/tags/training/default.aspx">training</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/jessmeats/archive/tags/BI/default.aspx">BI</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/jessmeats/archive/tags/Business+Intelligence/default.aspx">Business Intelligence</category></item><item><title>Scenario: Budget Request</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/jessmeats/archive/2009/08/26/scenario-budget-request.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:05:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3276998</guid><dc:creator>JessMeats</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/jessmeats/comments/3276998.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.technet.com/jessmeats/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3276998</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Another scenario where InfoPath and SharePoint can aid business processes. In this demo, an employee fills out a budget request form, which is ammended by a manager and the results tracked using key performance indicators. &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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