Howard @ MSFT selling BI

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New MSDN Blog

I started a new blog over at msdn and will post there
http://blogs.msdn.com/howardm/

SQL Server 2008 R2 Business Intelligence Training Course

SQL Server 2008 R2 Business Intelligence Training Course (a.k.a. SQLInsights), a new self-paced online training course brought to you by Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism. This is a is a great resource for developers, consultants and evangelists who want to learn how to build solutions that deliver rich integrated reporting, analytics and dashboard experiences using SQL Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft Business Intelligence. It contains a comprehensive set of videos and hands-on labs that are perfect for self-paced learning.
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9761002

PerformancePoint 2010 Content Deployment Tool

It’s a command-line tool that allows you to deploy PerformancePoint content using an existing ddwx file and can be used to migrate content from development to production or between site collections on the same SharePoint server.
http://ppscd.codeplex.com/

New Gartner BI Quad

We actually passed Oracle. Shows our message and capabilities are getting through to customers.
gartner BI quad

Here is a link to the complete article.
http://www.gartner.com/technology/media-products/reprints/microsoft/vol2/article15/article15.html

SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit

MS BI End User Training

The new HP Business Decision Appliance

The new HP Business Decision Appliance comes with the complete Microsoft BI stack including Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 R2, and SharePoint 2010, and PowerPivot for SharePoint. It be installed and configured in less than one hour. http://bit.ly/mshpbda

PerformancePoint 2010 and PowerPivot

New PowerPivot build

integrates into the Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket
Download here

Visio Forward Engineer

Came across a cool add in to Visio to model and create databases.
http://sqlblog.com/blogs/alberto_ferrari/archive/2010/10/19/visio-forward-engineer-1-1.aspx

Download it here