16 November 2011 0 Comments

Business Intelligence Bootcamp for Microsoft partners

Sarah Arnold, over on the Australian Partner blog , has just announced that there’s extra help available for partners who are aiming to get the Business Intelligence competency for Microsoft Partners at Silver level. If you’re a partner that’s deeply engaged with education customers, you’ll know how much data education institutions collect, and how much useful insight it would deliver to them if they were able to analyse it easily and comprehensively – whether that’s for learning, assessment, finance or many other uses.

16 October 2011 0 Comments

Coming Out of Left Field

Baseball is the arguably the most hallowed game in America.

27 July 2011 0 Comments

BI in Education – Brisbane Catholic Education case study from StrataDB

Business Intelligence (BI) in education is going to become an interesting topic over the next couple of years in Australia. Although there has always been a discussion about the use of data, and various projects that have looked at ways to analyse and use student learning data more effectively, I predict that learning analysis is going to move up the priority list for every education leadership team across Australia

23 February 2011 0 Comments

The Coming Culture Shift for IT/Web Analysts and CIOs

“Big Data” is changing the face of business intelligence, for both CIOs and IT professionals. Alistair Croll, Founder of BitCurrent and Program Co-Chair of the Strata Conference, emphasizes that thinking like Sir Isaac Newton could bring a huge competitive advantage to you and your business. He warns that tech professionals that don’t evolve their thinking may be out of a job.

22 December 2010 0 Comments

Business Intelligence Recap of 2010

Ah yes. The closing of another great year and the promise of a new year is just around the corner

12 March 2010 0 Comments

Microsoft Business Intelligence Confernece 21 och april Stockholm och Göteborg

Microsoft Business Intelligence Confernece 21 april i Stockholm och Göteborg, anmälan och mer information på Microsofts BI-konferens 21-22 april .

11 March 2010 0 Comments

Microsoft Dynamics ERP Facebook Friend

Hey all, the social media march continues – come make friends with Microsoft Dynamics ERP on Facebook here Posted By Fee Nolan

2 March 2010 0 Comments

Search on Bing and raise money for Sports Relief

What’s something we all do every day? Other than getting up, brushing teeth, going to work, etc, we all use a search engine to find and consume information on a variety of topics.

18 January 2010 0 Comments

Price Changes fro GP11

http://blogs.msdn.com/gp/archive/2010/01/13/important-pricing-and-licensing-changes-for-microsoft-dynamics-gp.aspx Dear all There are important pricing and licensing changes coming up to coincide with the launch of GP 11. Please refer to Pam’s blog post above regarding getting up to speed with these and how you can get your questions answered.   Best regards   Steve Farr

10 January 2010 0 Comments

New Business Essentials GP 10 SP4 Virtual PC released

Happy New Year All!! Check out the latest VPC here: https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/newsevents/news/SP4BEToolkit Will

12 November 2009 0 Comments

2009 Impact Awards Tonight!

  The wait is over and the 2009 Impact Awards will be awarded tonight at a special gala hosted at Second City in Toronto. I wanted to congratulate the finalist once again as the presence of SBSC Partners within the 25 categories is outstanding, there are 21 SBSC Partner finalists, in 16 categories.

26 September 2009 0 Comments

The new Business Intelligence frontiers: Individual and Civilization

I just realized that blogs will soon be obsolete artifacts . Let me explain why: For over 10 thousand years “writing, painting and talking” have been the most basic communication tools we use to describe our lives. In the early computing days storage was very limited; I remember tools like WinDirStat to understand how precious storage was managed.