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Speaking of SQL Master Data Services
Yeah! I’m so glad that SB asked me because after SharePoint Saturday Hartford (of course you were there) I was thinking to myself – I need to get up and talk to people more about Master Data Services. Anyway, I enjoy this group. They meet at the Microsoft office in Farmington, CT every 2nd Tuesday [...]
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Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference 2008 Recap
I had a tremendous opportunity earlier this month when I travelled to Seattle for the 2nd Annual Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference. There I was able to meet with nearly every Program Manager on the PerformancePoint Server Planning team, customers who had actually implemented PPS-P and lived to tell the tale, and some Brit bloggers at [...]
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Executive Seminar in Hartford, CT
I had the opportunity to attend an excellent presentation on Corporate Performance Management yesterday, given by my colleagues David Putt from Blum Shapiro and Michael Hollenbeck from Microsoft. David began with an overview of CPM and the value proposition for companies in the mid-market. Traditionally, these companies suffer from a disproportionate amount of time wasted [...]
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How to Measure Anything
I had an opportunity to listen in on a presentation by Douglas Hubbard yesterday. Douglas is the author of a remarkable book entitled “How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business” http://www.howtomeasureanything.com/ Essentially, Douglas’s approach to measurement can be summed up as “If you don’t know how to measure something, instead measure [...]
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CIO Summit Event at Foxwoods
I had the pleasure of presenting with the Microsoft SMS&P team at Foxwoods casino last Thursday. Microsoft sponsors this CIO Summit event every 6 months. Apparently, one of the pieces of feedback which they received was that the CIO’s felt disconnected from the Microsoft Partner Community, and that they would like some exposure to trusted [...]
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What I Learned at the Quarterly Partner Briefing
I was at the Microsoft Quarterly Partner briefing last Monday with Bill Moher, Bernie Lidestri and Jason Troiano. We attended a session by Scott Jamison who is MCS’s lead SharePoint Architect. His blog can be found here: http://www.scottjamison.com/blog Scott gave a talk on the BPIO model. BPIO stands for Business Productivity Infrastructure Optimization. BPIO is [...]
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Observations on Presenting
Max Weber and I went to today’s Code Camp VII “Deer in Headlights” up in Waltham today. We really are a couple of idiots: volunteering to work on a Sunday, but never mind. Max presented on Workflow and SharePoint, and I talked about Features and Solutions in WSS (Both topics were done earlier as Tallan [...]
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