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Business Intelligence

Information about Microsoft's products and technologies related to Business Intelligence, focusing on the end point - data visualisation and analysis.

News

• Virtual labs for Business Intelligence - TechNet
• Planning for business intelligence - TechNet library articles
• Microsoft's BI strategy - conference videos (August 2006, via Ian Tien's blog)
• Microsoft acquired ProClarity (April 2006)

PerformancePoint Server 2007

• Product Web Site
• TechNet Web site
• Technet Virtual Labs
• Download the evaluation edition

SQL Server

• SQL Server 2008 Spatial - geographic visualsiations
• SQL Server 2005 Data mining add-ons for Office 2007
• SQL Server Service Pack 2 downloads (Feb 07)
• On-demand web casts for BI with SQL Server 2005 (MSDN)

Business Scorecard Manager (Note: Product is now retired)

• Migrating BSM workspaces to PerformancePoint Server (Jan 2008)
• BSM 2005 Sample templates available (May 2006)
• Installing Business Scorecard Manager (Mar 2006)
• Getting BSM05 working with SharePoint 2007 Beta (Dec 05)
• BSM web site
• BSM team blog
• Ian Tien's blog (BSM product mgr)

Visio

• Microsoft Visio Toolbox
• Visio Conference 2008 (videos online)