Microsoft has announced a new indexing connector for business intelligence (BI), specifically BI reports created using Excel and/or SQL Reporting Services, including the new tool for analysing massive amounts of data – PowerPivot. The connector creates a dedicated Report tab to query just reports, includes specific refiners filtering search reports, and thumbnails and previews to [...]
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Microsoft has a proof of concept built on SharePoint – Looking Glass (must stress: It’s a proof of concept (PoC), no mention of an actual working solution yet) – exploring how to monitor and act on social media conversations (increasingly being labelled as ‘Sentiment Analysis’)
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Earlier this year, Joining Dots ran a series of Enterprise Search workshops for Microsoft UK. Its purpose was to help organisations explore what enterprise search means and what Microsoft technologies can do to help implement an effective search solution. The workshop consisted of four sessions, containing a mix of presentations, hands-on demonstrations and plenty of [...]
Read more »Whilst most of my software-specific consulting activities revolve around the luscious SharePoint, I’m always on the lookout to bring Excel to the party. Excel 2007 introduces some new visualization capabilities to make it easier and quicker to analyze large data sets without requiring specialist tools. If you haven’t seen what Excel can do, here’s a [...]
Read more »[Update: 26 July 2008] This post has been copied to the following location. If you have any questions or comments, please visit it there – http://www.sharepointsharon.com/blog/2008/07/sharepoint-for-web-sites-or-not.htm—————————————————————————————————————– Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is marketed across 6 solution segments: collaboration; portals; search; content management; business intelligence and business processes. One question I often get asked by customers [...]
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