Business Intelligence, according to Microsoft

Jan '09 20 Tue 6:00 PM
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Alex Krylov,  R. Madhavan,  and Yuriy Michael Goldman

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Microsoft will be demonstrating their Business Intelligence offering and address the robust technology, rich functionality and competitive advantage that is inherent to their enterprise-scale solutions.

The attending Microsoft BI Team will be:
- JoAnn Hollowood, Business Intelligence Solution Specialist
- Rob Poirier, Business Solution Technical Professional
- Colin McClive, Solution Specialist, Application Platform
- Ahmer Sabri, Global Account Technology Specialist

The event will cover capabilities including scorecards, dashboards, and rich analytics delivered through a trusted and familiar environment. Microsoft Business Intelligence solutions are positioned to solve the business needs of organizations of all sizes and to provide value to all users across the organization. For more information, please see: http://www.microsoft.....

Giveaways and food will be provided.

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  • Grant Nicholson
    Posted Feb 2, 2009 9:34 PM
    Grant Nicholson
    I enjoyed the meetup but was a disappointed that the Microsfot presentation did not really focus on differentiation of their product(s) to competitors in the space. Clearly have a broad offering but presentations were high-level and did not give practitioners a good idea of product positioning within the suite or specific use cases suited to the respective components. In my personal opinion, too much focus on Excel and not enough substance of fundamentals of their offerings. More depth please.
  • Kevin Weatherill
    Posted Jan 22, 2009 5:34 PM
    Kevin Weatherill
    Very much appreciate the commitment from Microsoft to the BI Meetup. Unfortunately the presentation was too narrowly focused on the visualization components and didn't show the best of breed elements such as Analysis Services at all. As other respondents have noticed, the current product stack seems to be a stepping stone to a better integrated solution - from both the end-user and IT perspectives - and it's hard to understand which of the current technologies to build an application around.
  • Posted Jan 22, 2009 4:16 PM
    Palani
    It was really good to see, so many people showed interested in BI space. Not sure, if they presentation lived upto the expectation. I hope, most of us being technical people, it would be useful if future events are more hands on rather than power point presentation.
  • Duke
    Posted Jan 22, 2009 1:55 PM
    Duke
    My first meetup with this group and didn't get a chance to get a good grasp of what the format is of this group as this was more of a vendor presentation. I've seen the Microsoft BI presentation before except this time they seem to resolved the performance issues. To the people who is seeing it the first time, the Microsoft presenter did a poor job of explaining which product he was showing and how the data was flowing through.
  • cridal
    Posted Jan 22, 2009 2:26 AM
    cridal
    The presentation might as well have been called "leveraging Excel and SSAS as tools for doing some analytics". In other words, "the tip of the tip of an iceberg" in any kind of business intelligence initiative. It looked to me that 95% of an effort to get to nice, shiny data cubes was conveniently glossed over. I was expecting something much broader, deeper and meatier. Microsoft must have some thoughts about how to turn silos of dirty corporate data into BI, but it didn't show. Maybe next time?
  • Moe
    Posted Jan 21, 2009 2:33 PM
    Moe
    It was a well organized meeting; I particularly liked Yuriy's role as the moderator. On MSFT's part, I had mixed feelings the reason probably is that I have been working with their "BI stack" for a while now; hence I did not need an introduction. In addition, one of the MSFT presenters continued to show how to drag and drop and ignored to mention the need for programming skills for these new technologies such as the need for MDX skills to develop advanced/sophisticated reports in PPS and SSAS.
  • Luis Scott Miranda
    Posted Jan 21, 2009 11:30 AM
    Luis Scott Miranda
    Event was well organized (as all have been perviously)... I would like to learn more about how Msft is revolutionizing this space moving forward.. I would like to see a follow-up event with this vendor, and look forward to the upcoming events.. nice job.
  • Morton Swimmer
    Posted Jan 21, 2009 8:33 AM
    Morton Swimmer
    For me as a researcher, it was a bit too much of a marketing talk, but it wasn't advertised any other way, so I shouldn't complain. The fixation on Excel in BI continues to boggle my mind, but it looks like MS is trying to make this rather bad idea scale and work in practice. I also am astounded that Master Data Management is not already a key component of the solution as you will inevitably start comparing apples and pears without it.

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