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Aaron and I did our webinar last month and it went fairly well.  I don’t quite have the speaker phone deal worked out yet and talking to a monitor can be a little tough, but we did it.  I would have much rather been able to see everyone face-to-face, but it was a chance to evangelize and spread the good word of the MS BI Platform and talk ...

I read Jamie Thomson’s blog here this afternoon and read the article on Zoomix’s site and Microsoft is adding more its MDM arsenal.  Zoomix will add more MDM capabilities and add some great data quality portions.  Is this more of a move for the MDM portion or SQL Server Platform or both?  I hope that this gets incorporated into the BI Platform and ...

Next Tuesday, June 3 at 11:00 AM Pacific, 1:00 PM Central, 2:00 PM Eastern Aaron Lowe, one of Magenic's SQL Server Aces out of the Chicago office, and I will be presenting a webinar.  This webinar is titled 'Make Better Decisions with Your Data' and is the first of two webinars we will be doing over the next couple of months.  We are planning on ...

It is high time that Business Intelligence get the benefits of the language "Cambrian Explosion" and agile revolution.  Think about BI for a second.  Most of the talk around BI is oriented around tools - a stack that ties together presentation, storage, and logic, all in the name of avoiding dealing with pesky ...

Just did a search on BI blog sites on Google and came across this site - http://www.biblogs.com/.  This site is currently aggregating over 60 BI blog related sites and is an excellent source of information and makes it much easier to manage.  It easily replaced more than 20 of my pre-configured blog sites that I have setup in RSS Bandit and ...

Just got done watching the Revenue Management video outlining the the new turnkey solution from Microsoft.  From watching the video and reviewing a presentation from the Australian BI Summit Conference in November in regards to the Microsoft Enterprise Cube (MEC) this is a pre-built solution that will sit on top of an existing data warehouse.  I ...