On Tuesday February 7th Microsoft Belux organizes an ISV Community Update event. These events are especially setup for Technical Decision Makers of ISVs and are an excellent opportunity to stay up-to-date with the latest technologies of the Microsoft platform.
This time we will be covering the Business Intelligence Capabilities of SQL Server 2005. This will happen in two sessions:
- SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence: Delivering Business Insight
During this session we will provide you with an introduction in BI & an overview of the different components of Microsoft's BI offering. We will deal with the different components of SQL Server 2005 being: Integration Services (ETL-Tool), Analysis Services (Turning Technical information into business information), Reporting Services (reporting environment), Report Builder (End-user reporting tool). We will also dive into the Office portfolio & talk about the BI components that are included within Office System. (Business scorecard manager , Excell, Visio, MapPoint, ...)
- Leveraging Business Intelligence Capabilities within your applications
This session is focused on how to use the BI-Artifacts within your application. We will discuss how to integrate Reporting Services Reports within your (web and/or forms application, How to integrate data-mining (predication based on historical data e.g. credit check) into your application, how to deliver data from Analysis services into your application.
When?
Tuesday 7 February
12:00 – 13:30: Welcome & Lunch
13:30 – 15:30: SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence: Delivering Business Insight
15:30 – 16:00: Break
16:00 – 18:00: Leveraging Business Intelligence Capabilities within your applications
Drinks
Where?
Crowne Plaza Brussels Airport
Corporate Village
DA VINCILAAN 4
B- 1831 Diegem
You can register for this event through the Microsoft ISV portal. Register here.
AlfaPrint, one of the ISV’s I’ve been assisting in their adoption process of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005, have loyal users. One of them is Dirk Stevens. Dirk is DAM Manager at Agfa and decided to start a blog: the DAM or ADAM blog. In his blog Dirk wants to share his knowledge and enthusiasm around ADAM and DAM systems in general. The goal is to create a community around ADAM, not as an enhancement request or bug report platform, but a place where equally-minded people share their thoughts and visions on ADAM.
In his first post he requests some feedback on the issues and bottlenecks every Windows platform user is facing today when handling graphical files. Windows Vista definitely does a better job than previous OS's. And Office 12 has an open XML format. Check out Brian Jones' blog if you want to learn more on the latter. In a recent blogpost he announces that "Corel will support Microsoft Office Open XML Formats".
Talking about communities: one of the developers working on ADAM at AlfaPrint, Michael Vanhoutte, wrote a couple of technical articles. They can be found on CodeProject:
Based on my discussions with Michael I think he should consider blogging. Not only “to blog” as such, but mainly to talk to the ADAM customers. Like Dirk. Michael has a deep understanding of how the software has been developed and why it was concepted like that. Dirk knows what he expects from ADAM and wants to share his thoughts with the community.
Hey guys, wat do we need more to get this conversation started?