March 10, 2009 (60 Minutes)

Event Overview  

The key to successful performance management is based on bringing together people, processes, and technology in a way that allows an organization to align around its strategic goals and objectives, promoting agility in its decision making. In this four-part webcast series, we take a deep look into performance management solutions to help you gain an understanding of their role in your organization. You also hear from a Microsoft expert about how you can improve performance management using many of the solutions you already own. In this third webcast in the series, you learn how Microsoft SQL Server 2008 provides a robust, scalable, and enterprise-ready platform to enable the delivery of critical business intelligence information to workers across your entire organization. Join us to discover how SQL Server 2008 can help you integrate data of different types from multiple sources quickly, perform complex business analytics, and create, manage, and deliver rich reports to help your organization gain greater insight and achieve faster results.

Presenter: Herain Oberoi, Group Product Manager, WW SQL Marketing, Microsoft Corporation
 

March 6, 2009 (60 minutes)

Event Overview 

This event was recorded on March 5, 2009.

Business Intelligence continues to be a top priority for executives. As the platform for the end-to-end Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) offering, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 builds on the strong momentum in the BI market. In this session we will discuss the improvements and new BI capabilitites in SQL Server 20088, including Database Engine ,(Analysis Services (SSAS) , Reporting Services (SSRS) and Integration Services (SSIS). (Level 100)

Presenter:
Martin Pichardo
Technology Solution Professional
Microsoft Corporation

February 26, 2009 (60 minutes)

Event Overview 

People across organizations make business decisions every day. However, the tools to interact with, analyze, and present data are often restricted to a select few users. Microsoft business intelligence (BI) tools make it easy for any decision-maker to access, interact with, and analyze information. Attend this webcast to discover how you can create interactive scorecards and dashboards that assemble and display business information from disparate sources. Find out how you can get up-to-date information wherever people work, collaborate, and make decisions, whether it is on the desktop or over the Web. Come learn how Microsoft is thinking more broadly about BI.

Presenter: Pej Javaheri, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation

Pej Javaheri is an industry veteran who has worked in the business intelligence (BI) and performance management space for more than 12 years, helping organizations perform better and make smarter decisions. Most recently, Pej joined the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server team where he works to bring the bigger BI message to customers so they can realize their potential and gain better understanding of the key drivers that help them realize their full potential.
 

February 17, 2009 (60 minutes)

Event Overview 

In this webcast, we focus on the power of Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System (VSTO) and how VSTO helps increase developer productivity. We provide various tips and tricks for designing and building smart client applications with VSTO, a Microsoft .NET Smart Client technology. VSTO allows you to build managed code applications with .NET languages like Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual C#, and VSTO allows you to display the functionality of those applications in the rich user interfaces of Microsoft Office system applications such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, and Outlook. VSTO addresses some of the biggest challenges that Microsoft Office solution developers are facing today, including separation of data and view elements, server-side and offline scenarios, seamless integration with the Visual Studio tools, deployment, and updating. Join us to learn just how easy it is to build powerful VSTO applications and how to deploy those applications.

Presenter: Jennifer Marsman, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation

Jennifer Marsman is a developer evangelist in the Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism group where she educates developers on new Microsoft technologies. Prior to becoming a developer evangelist, Jennifer was a software developer in the Microsoft Natural Interactive Services division where she filed two patents for her work in search and data mining algorithms. Jennifer has also held positions with Ford Motor Company, National Instruments, and Soar Technology, and she earned a bachelor's degree in computer engineering and master's degree in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Her graduate work specialized in artificial intelligence and computational theory.

January 29, 2009 (60 Minutes)

Learn more about the Microsoft vision for business intelligence (BI) and how BI can benefit your organization. Microsoft is committed to BI and driving more value, more functionality, and manageability to support your organization's need for pervasive business intelligence. Attend this webcast to discover exciting Microsoft innovations in BI.

Presenter
Guy Weismantel , Director of Marketing, Microsoft Corporation

December 2, 2008(60 minutes)

Many surveys today, list business intelligence (BI) at the top of software spending priorities for companies of all sizes.  And yet, despite the time, money, and resources aligned against the goal of making better business decisions, companies do not yet have a solution that lets them address these issues in a strategic fashion.  Attend this web seminar to understand how Microsoft is challenging our customers to “think bigger” about business intelligence, move beyond the rigid tools and applications they’re using today, and utilize our integrated solution of Office Applications, SharePoint, SQL Server, and PerformancePoint Server to provide an unbeatable combination of tools and applications that helps individuals, teams, and organizations reach their full potential.

July 13, 2008 (60 Minutes)

Brad Nelson
SQL Server Technology Specialist, Microsoft Corporation

Learn how the new enhancements in SQL server 2008 provide a comprehensive and scalable Business Intelligence platform that enables you to integrate and manage your growing data volumes, comprehensive analysis and enterprise reporting, and deliver insights through Microsoft Office System.