My Two Bits : BI

The BI Story!

Kailash — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:26:00 GMT

Warning: I'm not a real expert in this area yet, so please note that I may language a bit loosely below.

So, I'm done with that disclaimer. Never really claimed to be a know-it-all and here I can really point to it and say it out loud ;).

As many of you may have heard we aquired ProClarity earlier this year and have made it cheaper and therefore more accessible to the world (Already!). Last week's been pretty busy putting this message out to partners and key customers in Egypt. We had Aziz ElKardoudi from Holland visit us and that resulted in a whirlwind tour of the city rushing from meeting to meeting and as my peers will tell you, I was late everywhere! Thankfully, we've had some degree of success propagating the message.

The Message:
BI is part of our pervasive message to Businesses. We're building BI in a whole bunch of products: SQL Reporting Services, SharePoint, Excel, BSM, ProClarity and the upcoming PerformancePoint Server.

We're planning on completing the circle here ladies and gentlemen: Reporting, Monitoring, Analyzing, Forecasting and Planning.

AMR Research Report (2005) – Microsoft Plants Seeds for BI Everywhere: Competitors Beware!

For more, please check our website at http://www.microsoft.com/bi

BI FLASH!

Kailash — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:47:00 GMT

Microsoft BSM is Business Scorecard Collaborative Certified

https://www.bscol.com/bsc_online/technology/certified/index.cfm?id=57F4356C-508B-DC96-C1D2E72D45CB1D9A

Balanced Scorecard Collaborative (BSCol) is the only world-recognized certification program for Balanced Scorecard software applications.

BSCol developed Balanced Scorecard Functional Standards in 1999 to preserve the integrity of the Balanced Scorecard software market and provide a means by which certified application providers could distinguish their products from the sea of performance measurement applications.

Today, BSCol is the source for the latest Balanced Scorecard technology expertise - both for developers seeking product support and for consumers seeking implementation or software selection expertise.

To see a list of BSCol Certified Software, please click here.

From: https://www.bscol.com/bsc_online/technology/

Microsoft's BI Strategy

Kailash — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:37:00 GMT

Please look at the news release here:

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/jun06/06-06PPS07PR.mspx

Also note:

Availability

The beta program for PerformancePoint Server will begin this fall and general availability is targeted for mid-year 2007. A technical advisory program (TAP) is currently open and accepting participants. For more information about the TAP program, customers and partners should contact their account managers.

More information about Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 can be found at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX101550371033.aspx.