Contents
Upcoming Events
Upcoming Webcasts
Training: online and regional options
Resources: whitepapers, case studies, datasheets, webcasts, books, etc
News Links and Press Releases
Hot Topics
SQL Server 2008 performs 1 trillion row query in seconds at BI Conference
Microsoft Focuses on BI for SQL Server Kilimanjaro
Microsoft BI: Gemini Lands at Kilimanjaro
DM Review Midmarket Business Intelligence Survey Results
Assessment Tool for Business Intelligence
- compare your infrastructure against industry best practices and the latest IT research
Upcoming Events
IT: A Strategic Asset for BI and Collaboration
Sponsored by CSG Professional Services & Microsoft
Oct 15 – Portland, OR
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Capitalize on the Business Intelligence Opportunity
Partner Recruit Road Show
Oct 17 - San Francisco, CA
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Driving Business Performance with Microsoft PerformancePoint Server Planning
Sponsored by GNET Group & Microsoft
Oct 21 – Golden Valley, MN
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Streamlining the Budget Process
Presented by Analysts International
Oct 23 – Minneapolis, MN
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Wine, Hor d’oeuvres, and Analytics: at the Ste. Michelle Wine Estates
Nov 4 – Woodinville, WA
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Wine, Hor d’oeuvres, and Analytics: at Ponzi Winery
Sponsored by CSG Professional Services & Microsoft
Nov 11 – Beaverton, OR
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Performance Management Executive Roundtable (invite only)
Sponsored by Brown Smith Wallace & Microsoft
Nov 12 – St. Louis, MO
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Performance Management Executive Roundtable (invite only)
Sponsored by GNET Group & Microsoft
Nov 13 – Minneapolis, MN
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Wine, Hor d’oeuvres, and Analytics: at the Ritz
Sponsored by Blackstone Technology Group & Microsoft
Nov 18 – San Francisco, CA
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Sales Workshop with Dale Carnegie Training & Microsoft
Nov 18 – Portland, OR
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Wine, Hor d’oeuvres, and Analytics: at The Mountain Winery
Sponsored by Convergent Computing (CCO) & Microsoft
Nov 19 – Saratoga, CA
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Wine, Hor d’oeuvres, and Analytics: at the Wente Winery
Sponsored by Allin Consulting & Microsoft
Nov 20 – Livermore, CA
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PASS Community Summit 2008
Nov 18-21 - Seattle, WA
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Find Events & Webcasts
Upcoming Webcasts
* all times listed below are for Pacific time zone
A Day in the Life of a Budget Administrator Using PerformancePoint
Presented by Graham Hunter of Ninety & Jason Morales of Microsoft
Oct 23, 11am
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Business Intelligence and SharePoint, Gain Knowledge from your Technology
Presented by Steve Muise and Jason Noble of Neudesic
Oct 21, 11am
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Extend Your Investment with Autonomy Integrated Suite for SharePoint
Presented by MicroLink, LLC
Oct 22, 10am
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How Dashboards and KPIs can Transform Your Services Business
Presented by PointBridge
Nov 5, 10am
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Application Lifecycle Development
Presented by Neudesic
Nov 12, 10am
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Performance Management Using Project Server 2007 and PerformancePoint Server 2007
Nov 13, 1pm
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CRM & BI, Easily Leverage Your CRM Data
Presented by Darren Gooding & Steve Muise of Neudesic
Nov 18, 11am
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Training
PerformancePoint Training Sites
Online: PPS Planning, Monitoring and Analytics (includes videos and workbooks)
Online: ProClarity
Hitachi Consulting
Business Intelligence Education Services
PerformancePoint 2007 Boot Camp (4 Day) - click here for more info
Nov 3 – Dallas, TX
Nov 7 – Bellevue, WA
Solid Quality Mentors
BI Courses, including SQL 2005, PerformancePoint and ProClarity
Enterprise ETL with SQL Server 2005 (4 day) – click here for more info
Oct 13-16 – Beaverton, OR
Nov 17-20 – Bellevue, WA
Microsoft BI Bootcamp (5 day) - click here for more info
Dec 8-12 - Seattle, WA
SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services (3 day) – click here for more info
Nov 11-13 – Bellevue, WA
Solving Business Problems in MDX (2 day) – click here for more info
Nov 11-12 – Minneapolis, MN
SQL Server 2005 End-to-End Business Intelligence Workshop (5 day) – click here for more info
Oct 27-31 – Sacramento, CA
Dec 1-5 – Beaverton, OR
Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 End-to-End – click here for more info
Oct 20-24 – Sacramento, CA
Oct 27-31 – Minneapolis, MN
Premier Knowledge Solutions
PerformancePoint Bootcamp - click here for more info
Nov 17 – St Louis, MO
PerformancePoint Planning
Oct 29-31 – St Louis, MO
Additional course info available by request - contact Andrew Petroline
Kimball Group
Data Warehouse Lifecycle in Depth
Taught by Margy Ross & Warren Thornthwaite
Nov 18-21 – San Francisco, CA
Click here to learn more & register
Microsoft Data Warehouse in Depth
Taught by Joy Mundy & Warren Thornthwaite
Dec 2-5 – Dallas, TX
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IT Mentors
Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Monitoring & Analytics
ONLC Training Centers
PerformancePoint Training, Class, Course Information
Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Technical Training (4 days)
Dec 8-11 – Omaha, NE
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Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Bootcamp (5 days)
Oct 13-17 – Omaha, NE
Dec 15-19 – Omaha, NE
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AppDev - CD-ROM & DVD-ROM Training
SQL Server 2005 and BI Learning Suite
Partner Program - webcasts
Online Training Webcasts - (keyword = performancepoint)
Resources
Microsoft BI
Whitepapers, Demos, Product Evaluations
Consulting Partner Directory
Subscribe - Microsoft Business Intelligence Newsletter
PerformancePoint Server 2007
System Requirements
Download: PerformancePoint Server 2007 Trial Software
Flash Demo: Virtual Experience
Datasheets: Overview, Monitor, Analyze, Plan, Management Reporting
Video: PerformancePoint Server Team Video
Video: Business Intelligence by Role (CFO, Operations Mgr, IT Director, Sales Mgr)
Wikis: Wikipedia, Channel 9
On-Demand Webcasts of PerformancePoint Server 2007
PPS Technical Library
PPS Developer Portal
Books on PerformancePoint Server 2007
The Rational Guide to Monitoring and Analyzing with…
The Rational Guide to Planning with…
Business Intelligence with…
Pro PerformancePoint Server 2007
Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007
Microsoft PerformancePoint 2007 for Dummies
Downloadable Books for PerformancePoint Server 2007
ProClarity
Download: ProClarity Analytic Server Evaluation 6.3
Search the Support Knowledge Base
Microsoft ProClarity Software Developer’s Kit 6.3
PerformancePoint 2007 Management Reporter
Overview
SQL Server 2005
SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence
Best Practices
BI Presentations
SQL Server 2005 – Learning Portal
Archived Webcasts, Virtual Labs and Podcasts
SQL Server 2008
Business Intelligence
Data Warehousing
Demo: SQL Server 2008 Overview
Video: SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence
Datasheet: Business Intelligence
SQL Server 2008 Virtual Labs:
Analysis Services: Delivering Analysis Services capabilities through Microsoft Office
Analysis Services: Managing Analysis Services Solutions
Reporting Services: Managing the Report Services Infrastructure
Data Mining
SharePoint Server 2007
SharePoint Business Intelligence
Evaluation Guide
Case Study: Microsoft Team Closes Books 33 Percent Faster, Files Financials 40 Percent Sooner
Data Mining
SQL Server Data Mining
Webcast: Building Adaptive Applications with SQL Server Data Mining
Video: SQL Server 2008 Data Mining Enhancements
Dynamics
Microsoft Dynamics-Everyone Gets It
Evaluate Microsoft Dynamics—What is Microsoft Dynamics?
Dynamic Communities
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009
Microsoft Dynamics Integration with Microsoft Technologies
Whitepaper: Evaluating Financial Management Software…Is it time for a change?
Technical Forums
PPS Monitoring and Analytics
PPS Planning
ProClarity
SQL Server Reporting Services
SQL Server Analysis Services
SQL Server Integration Services
SQL Server Database Engine
Data Mining
Case Studies
Oticon, Gemplus, Capella, Premier Bankcard, ITV, Coppin State University, Amaren, Potbelly Sandwich Works, Illinois Dept of Transportation, GPX International Tire Corp, OSIsoft, Community Health Network, The Credit Valley Hospital, Graham Field Health Products, University of Gothenburg, Heel Inc., Sentara Healthcare, Wandsworth Primary Care Trust, Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools, Culver Franchising Systems, Inc., Wenatex, American of Martinsville, Westminster City Council
Microsoft & BI Blogs
The Microsoft PerformancePoint Team Blog
The BI Blog
Intelligent Insight on PerformancePoint – PerformancePoint Server
Adrian Downe’s Blog – Great 7 Part Series on PPS Planning Features!
Ian Tien’s Unofficial PerformancePoint Server and Business Scorecard Manager Blog
Microsoft BI Blog – by Patrick Husting
Nick Barclay’s BI Blog –PerformancePoint Server resources
Norm’s PerformancePoint Server Blog
Patrick Baumgartner’s Unofficial PPS Blog
Chris Webb’s BI Blog – MDXtreme Programming
Vidas Matelis BI Blog – SQL 2005 resources
Sacha Tomey’s blog – Molding the Microsoft BI Stack
Microsoft OLAP by Mosha Pasumansky – Deep Insights into SSAS & MDX
Prologika (Teo Lachev’s Weblog) – Reporting Services insights
Direct Reports (Brian Welcker’s Weblog) - Reporting Services
The Data Puzzle
Notes from the Field – Pete Sprague’s PerformancePoint and Microsoft BI blog
Microsoft Excel – team blog for Excel & Excel Services
Reporting Services – team blog for SQL Server Reporting Services
DBCF – Database Consolidation Framework
Jason Morales’ Microsoft BI Update
Howard @ MSFT selling BI
Alan Whitehouse’s Ramblings – Solution Architect at TGO Consulting working with PerformancePoint
Business Intelligence Virtual Labs
Try out a BI virtual lab to test out the technology stack, including:
Analysis Services, Excel 2007, ProClarity, Report Builder, Integration Services, Data Mining
OLAP Report - summaries
Preview of PerformancePoint Server 2007
Market share analysis
SQL Server Analysis Services 2005 (Microsoft)
What is OLAP?
Commentary: Business Intelligence Competency Centers
Dimensional Relational vs. OLAP: The Final Deployment Conundrum
Other Recommended Reading
Drive Business Performance
Performance Dashboards: Measuring, Monitoring, and Managing Your Business
Business Dashboards: A Visual Catalog for Design and Deployment – not yet released
Analyst Reports
AMR Research: Microsoft’s Looming Impact on the Business Intelligence and Performance Management Market
Forrester Report Detail BPM Growth and Market Leadership
Gartner: Microsoft Gets Gartner’s Business Intelligence Top Ranking
Gartner: Business intelligence ROI, value a matter of mind over money
IDC Report Sees Steady Growth for BI, Pent-Up Demand for Analytics
News Links & Press Releases
Microsoft Bundling for BI
Microsoft Aims to Spread BI Throughout the Enterprise
Microsoft to Add Muscle To SQL Server
Microsoft lays out SQL Server Improvements
Microsoft’s (un)secret weapon for winning the BI battle
Roles and Responsibilities in Business Intelligence Teams, Part 2
Special Report: Business Intelligence Gets Smart
New Rules for Performance Management, Part 1
Operational Performance: What Sets Best-In-Class Companies Apart?
Exploring Ethics in Business Intelligence
Using Enterprise 2.0 for Business Intelligence, Part 6
How BI could have provided early warning to financial market meltdown
Business intelligence oils the wheels of the oil sector profit
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