What's Microsoft's strategic direction with Business Intelligence? What does the Microsoft BI stack really look like and how will it evolve. These questions and many more were recently answered in a seminar hosted by Microsoft and Collective Intelligence Inc.
The seminar was delivered on March 18th, 2009 at the Radison Hotel in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. The conference was Sponsored by Microsoft and Collective Intelligence Inc.
Michael Murphy, Microsoft Business Development Manager, spoke about the strategic nature of business intelligence and charted the path Microsoft BI would take over the coming months.
Chuck Russell, Senior Partner of Collective Intelligence presented the Microsoft Business Intelligence Platform and provided a deep dive demonstration of several Microsoft BI tools and also provided insight into how Microsoft BI is integrated within Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and Microsoft Office 2007.
Presentation materials are available in PDF format after the break:
Enterprise Portal 2005 Conference Presentation
Presented By: Chuck Russell, Collective Intelligence Inc.
This presentation provides an overview of the Business Intelligence feature stack and links the evolution of business intelligence to the revolution ocurring in the field of Scorecarding, Dashboards and Performance Management. The Enterprise Portal is a key component in providing users with secure access to actionable corporate information and serves as the foudation of Collaborative Business Intelligence.
Is it time to open source the Business Intelligence stack (RDBMS, ETL, OLAP, Reporting & Visualization)? Well the Eclipse Foundation and two new names plan to make it so.
Microsoft Corp. has recently provided some insight into it next generation of Office. Code-named Office 12 the newest upgrade will emphasize collaboration, information discovery and content management. Since its March acquisition of Groove Networks
Microsoft has focused on on peer-to-peer aspects of Collaborative Business Intelligence.
Open Source has acquired a significant amount of market share within the application server, database and operating systems markets. Companies like Red Hat, Novell, MySQL and JBOSS are building business models around open sourced software. Is Business Intelligence the next stop?
Recently, two startup companies announced their openware for reporting and data-analysis, while a business intelligence heavyweight claimed it will begin shipping with the MySQL open-source database.
Database professionals can count on being involved in a database migration at least once – and probably more than once – in their careers. Unless the migration involves a small, trivial system, such operations are not insignificant to say the least. Why do migrations occur? While there can be many reasons for performing a database migration, the motivation behind such a thing usually boils down to one of three issues:
- Scale — the current database configuration cannot support the current or upcoming workload and so a new database platform must be acquired.
- Cost — the current system has become cost prohibitive given its contribution to the overall business, so a more cost effective database platform must be found.
- Integration — for business reasons such as a corporate acquisition, the current database needs to be consolidated and integrated into another system that is not the same (but can be the same) database platform.
The movement to and from even similar platforms can be challenging, but when a dissimilar database platform move is attempted (like Oracle to Microsoft SQL Server)or a new operating system is utilized, then things can quickly become complex. This paper discusses the issues surrounding database migrations and focuses on how data lifecycle solutions from Embarcadero Technologies can take the bite out of such endeavors.
Data theft has become big news in recent weeks. Between data lost or stolen from Bank of America, ChoicePoint and a unit of Reed Elsevier, the public (and more importantly, Congress) is up in arms about the protection of personal and financial data that can be the subject of massive identity thefts.
Data loss is, of course, nothing new. In our work, we are frequently called upon to investigate these incidents and to find out what happened and who was involved.
Systems Integration 2005 Conference Presentation
Presented By: Alan Shortnacy, Embarcadero Technologies
Enterprise data is exploding at a rate of almost 2 exabytes each year while companies are merged and acquired, new compliance issues are levied and management needs to make decisions faster still to keep a competitive edge. In the midst of these complicated operational issues underlies the technologies that are inherited, grown and maintained, all by a fewer number of people. In light of these facts, a seamless process for data integration is crucial for accomplishing dynamic, data-centric business goals. This session will cover strategies for integrating systems such as ERP/CRM, Business Intelligence, Legacy systems, etc. with ETL processes to fulfill business requirements.
Plumtree Software announced the general availability of Plumtree Analytics Server, a new product that delivers real-time reporting on portal activity and content usage.
The trend in business intelligence these days is performance management and digital dashboards. Real time business performance monitoring (zero latency) requires dashboarding tools that can get the 'message out' by graphically articulating the measurment managers need to run their business.
Recently, Data Jungle, a company staffed with business intelligence industry veterans, has released several new products that knock the cover off the EIS ball: Matrix, Annotator and Reporter...
