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A photo to liven up your day

For those who I haven’t had a chance to meet at SQL PASS, the SharePoint 2010 Conference, the PNWSQL Users group, or countless other SSAS conferences over the years, I just posted a photo of myself on the About page.

(photo taken by my beautiful daughter Jeannie with her new Nikon D5000 12.3 MP DX DLSR [...]

SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP (including PowerPivot for SharePoint) released to TechNet and MSDN subscribers today

SQL Server 2008 R2 released to the web today for TechNet and MSDN subscribers. According to the announcement, non-subscribers will be able to access the download Wednesday, November 11th. To install PowerPivot for SharePoint you will need SharePoint 2010 beta (being released next week or the week after).  For the matching PowerPivot for Excel CTP3, [...]

“BI strategy? We don’t need no stink’en BI strategy!”

I just read Rob Collie’s posting about a Forrester report. And I just have to jump in with my two cents:

http://blogs.forrester.com/business_process/2009/11/ten-strong-hints-your-enterprise-may-not-have-a-bi-strategy.html
by Boris Evelson

Your end users keep pointing to IT as the source of most BI problems – Oh, the blame game. It can be hot and furious. The very fact that end users feel that [...]