Filtering Unneeded Dimension Members in PerformancePoint Filters - SQL Server Central

Filtering Unneeded Dimension Members in PerformancePoint Filters - SQL Server Central: "Sometimes we need to utilise dynamic dimension security in an Analysis Services solution and we also need to display dynamically the allowed members in a PerformancePoint filter."

PPS and 2008 SQL and Windows Server

http://hmorgenstern.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!28A6BE83102A0EB3!419.entry: "I want to use SQL 2008 as for my PPSMonitoring repository DB, and connect to SQL 2008 cubes. There are some SQL 2005 redistributables that are required and available here
Sqlncli
SQLServer2005_ADOMD
SQLServer2005_ASOLEDB9
SQLServer2005_XMO"

Time for change...moving forward to iBIG'ger and Better

After several months of deep thought and self evaluation, I have decided to direct my attention back to my privately owned company, International Business Intelligence Group, LLC (iBIG) based out of New York.

Originally when I started the company some 3 1/2 years ago, I had the idea to bring BI to the masses and start with small to midsize clients as a starting point. As the business and the business relationships started to take shape, I realized at the time, BI was still too foreign for most small to midsize businesses to grasp and there was/is a strong need for application development and support services. Driven by the market demands I redirected focus to app dev and allowed the BI side of the business to take a back seat.

After a year of being in business I then realized I could not escape from BI and decided to join Avanade (joint venture between Microsoft and Accenture) to get back into the BI space. While I was with Avanade, I had the opportunity to meet some great people and work on some life changing projects. I quickly reaffirmed my love for BI and Enterprise Colloboration while establishing some long term relationships. Avanade offered the exposure to enterprise clients but lacked the internal technical sales team required to deliver on truely successful BI adoption. We were mostly feed by Accenture clients who expressed an interest in BI but required some real world examples around capability and integation. Needless to say,POC's (Proof of Concept) were a big part of the last two and half years. As PerformancePoint Server (PPS = Microsoft's full package BI Solution) was being launched, I realized it was time for me to focus my attention on PPS and it's capabilities. I then explored an opportunity with Solver, Inc.

Solver is a ten year old privately held company focused on Corporate Performance Management solutions on the Microsoft BI Stack. I had some great experiences with the Solver team in building solutions on PerformancePoint. With my background in Infrastructure and enterprise implementation strategy, I was tasked to write a whitepaper for HP on "PerformancePoint Server implementation Best Practices". I also had the opportunity to work with some of the really smart BI folks that came from Avanade as well as Solver's own team. Together we built some pretty cool solutions for our clients and developed some great relationships in the process...

Last week, we decided to take a different direction in our relationship. I am going back to the old company and revive the BI initiative with new clients and new friends!

More to come...

Performance and capacity requirements for Hyper-V

Performance and capacity requirements for Hyper-V:

"This article provides information about the performance and capacity requirements for deploying Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 in a Hyper-V™ virtual environment.
In this article:
Introduction
Recommendations for configuring and optimizing Hyper-V
Hyper-V test environment and testing strategy
Test scenarios, results and analysis
Recommendations for deploying SharePoint on Hyper-V
Additional resources"

SharePoint SUSHI

SharePoint SUSHI - Home: "SUSHI is a powerful, user-friendly SharePoint application enabling you to accomplish common SharePoint administrative and development tasks. You can think of SUSHI as a Swiss army knife for SharePoint.
What does the name SUSHI stand for?
SUSHI = SharePoint Utility with a Smart, Helpful Interface"

Windows 7

Windows Developer Center: Information about WPF, WCF, Win32, Downloads, and More: "Build applications on a solid foundation; enable richer application experiences; and integrate the best of Windows and Web services. The features and technologies of the Windows 7 operating system enable you to build the next generation of software applications. This guide describes those features and includes vivid screenshots from the pre-Beta version released at PDC."