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:
Salesforce.com has changed the way we think about application development in the era of Business Web 2.0. Generally available since late last year, AppExchange the on-demand application deployment platform, now hosts hundreds of thousand of users and is the home for dozens of vertically oriented utilities solving real-world business problems.
AppExchange is a sandbox where application developers (and power users) can extend the functionality of the core features of Salesforce.com. AppExchange applications can be deployed to the enterprise and are made available to users via the sophisticated salesforce.com provisioning subsystem. AppExchange applications can be purchased in an on-demand fashion from their authors and can be rapidly integrated within a preexisting Salesforce.com instance.
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.
In May of this year Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley presented at the Hua Yuan Annual Conference. We highly recommend that you review this presentation as it provides some interesting prespective into the impact of the Internet and the role that the Chinese economy will play in the world Internet economy. Poignant and insightful.
Are open source communities a new source of free intellectual capital for commercial software companies?
Recently Jaspersoft announced their acquisition of all copyrights to the most popular open sourced reporting tool: Jasper Reports. Jasper Reports is consistently in the top 30 software products on SourceForge.net. The software product was licensed under the GNU LPL. Jasper Reports version 0.6.6 has been available since April 6, 2005.
Can an open-sourced project be taken private? Let’s take a look at a few of the issues related to the acquisition of the copyrights and the Jasper Reports open source license.
The OSI (Open Source Initiative) board earlier this month issued a statement condemning open-source license proliferation as "a significant barrier to open-source deployment." For its part, Intel requested in late March that OSI withdraw one of Intel's patents from future use. Meta Group analyst Charlie Garry is predicting that through 2010, enterprises will flee from the steep fees of database software licensing and into the embrace of open source.
That's great, say the founders of the open-source MySQL database—David Axmark and Michael "Monty" Widenius—now take it a step further and kill all the software patents, and we'd be getting somewhere.
We've always felt that the next open source beach head would be in the commoditized database market. As MySQL moves to version 5.0 it nears Enterprise level performance in functionality, scaleability and speed. Read this in-depth interview on eWeek.
FEW DOUBT THE LINKAGE BETWEEN BASIC RESEARCH and technological innovation. Historically the US government has funded the majority of basic research done in the US. However, government spending on basic research as a percentage of GDP has been declining for the last 20 years. What is the future of innovation in America?
We're all familiar with the term research and development (R&D). It’s a phrase measuring the amount of money a corporation invests in gathering new knowledge or creating new products. Investors use a corporation’s expenditures on R&D as one factor in determining its potential for growth and competitiveness. But let's dig a little deeper into the macroeconomic view of R&D.
