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’)
Read more »Microsoft announced a new product at the SharePoint conference that has been going under the codename Project Gemini – PowerPivot
PowerPivot is being released as an add-on component to Excel 2010 (licensing not available at time of writing). It’s purpose: analysing massive sets of data using familiar tools…
Read more »Excel Services is a new feature introduced with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) Enterprise Edition. It enables you to, amongst other things, display information from an Excel 2007 spreadsheet inside an Excel Web Access web part. Why is this useful? There are all sorts of reasons, but the best by far is to [...]
Read more »During the past 2 weeks, one of the technologies I’ve been fiddling with has been Microsoft’s Business Scorecard Manager (BSM) 2005. I went on a 2-day training course last week, picked up an evaluation copy and started playing. Here are some notes on how to install BSM and create your first scorecard. Installation Can be [...]
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