Business Intelligence Overview

• Webcast: Infrastructure Optimization (Part 7 of 11): Improving Business Insight and Performance with BI
  Review how the Business Productivity Infrastructure Optimization (BPIO) model can help enhance business insight by improving your organization’s reporting, analysis, and performance management capabilities.
• Webcast: Overview and Demonstration of myBI
  Learn about myBI, a configurable user interface portal that provides a continuum of reporting and BI capabilities.

Office PerformancePoint Server 2007

• Budgeting with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007
  Join this session to learn about how Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 addresses the budgeting process and enables businesses to deliver performance management capabilities broadly by providing an application that is easy to use and less costly to deploy than traditional solutions.
• Performance Management with PerformancePoint Server 2007
  Learn how PerformancePoint Server 2007 enables businesses to deliver performance management capabilities broadly by providing an application that is easy to use and less costly to deploy than traditional solutions.
• Webcast: Microsoft BI: Introduction to Office PerformancePoint 2007
  Discover how Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 provides you with critical visibility into the factors that affect your business, enabling you to make decisions and take actions that drive better business outcomes.
• Webcast: Performance Management 101 with Office PerformancePoint Server 2007
  Learn about common performance management problems and how Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 can help your company easily deliver performance management capabilities at less cost than traditional solutions.

SQL Server 2008

• The Value of Business Intelligence with SQL Server 2008
  Attend this session to gain insight into the new key features available in the next release of SQL Server, the platform for the end-to-end Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) solution. Also learn how the scalable BI infrastructure of SQL Server 2008 can help enable information technology to drive BI throughout your organization and deliver actionable information to decision makers.
• Advanced Manageability for SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services
  With Microsoft SQL Server 2008 comes the next release of Analysis Services, which offers. In this webcast, we introduce the advanced features for manageability delivered with the SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services and drill down into many examples of their usage. Join us to learn how to build effective queries, reports, and cubes that you can use to understand and monitor the behavior of your Analysis Services servers.
• Data Warehousing Enhancements in Microsoft SQL Server 2008
  Join this webcast to learn about the enhancements for Microsoft’s comprehensive, scalable data warehouse platform in the next version of Microsoft SQL Server integrated with the Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) platform.

SQL Server 2005

• Video: SQL Server 2005 BI Presentation 1: Introduction
  See how SQL Server 2005 can help provide significant improvements in data modeling, reporting, and development for BI solutions.
• Video: SQL Server 2005 BI Presentation 2: Viewing BI Data
  Get an overview of different ways to consume BI data using Reporting Services Office SharePoint Portal Server, and Business Scorecard Manager 2005.
• Video: SQL Server 2005 BI Presentation 3: Integrating Data Sources
  Learn how you can use Integration Services to transform data from multiple sources into a format your company can use.
• Video: SQL Server 2005 BI Presentation 4: Analysis Services Cubes
  Discover how you can use Analysis Services to gain an integrated view of all your business data.
• Video: SQL Server 2005 BI Presentation 5: Calculated Members and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
  See how you can use SQL Server 2005 tools to quickly create and deploy graphical KPIs based on enterprise BI data.
• Video: SQL Server 2005 BI Presentation 6: Creating and Maintaining Reports
  Learn how Reporting Services provides developers and database administrators with an infrastructure for creating, embedding, and managing enterprise reports.
• Video: SQL Server 2005 BI Presentation 7: Ad-Hoc Reporting
  Review how you can use Report Builder, a new component of Reporting Services, to create and deploy reports with a user-friendly enterprise data model.
• Video: SQL Server 2005 BI Presentation 8: Conclusion
  Discover how Microsoft BI provides all decision makers with a complete offering that can help them drive increased business performance.
• Webcast: Extending BI with SQL Server 2005: Emerging Best Practices for Large Scale Enterprise BI Applications
  Learn ways to implement secure BI applications for both domain and non-domain users on Microsoft SQL Server 2005.
• Webcast: Real-World Experience with a BI System on SQL Server 2005 (Part 1 of 3): Overview and Design
  Learn about the overview and design of Project REAL. Identify best practices and uncover potential issues that you are likely to encounter in your own BI implementation of SQL Server 2005.
• Webcast: Real-World Experience with a Business Intelligence System on SQL Server 2005 (Part 2 of 3): Data Engines
  Explore the ETL aspects of Project REAL, the relational storage of data, and the design and implementation of analytics using Analysis Services.
• Webcast: Real-World Experience with a Business Intelligence System on SQL Server 2005 (Part 3 of 3): Presentation
  Learn how to deliver BI information from Project REAL to end users using Reporting Services and Analysis Services.
• Webcast: Achieving Higher Scalability with SQL Server on Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition
  Discover how to plan, implement, and administer a SQL Server 2005 failover cluster on Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition.

SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services

• Webcast: Introduction to Analysis Services
  Learn how you can use Analysis Services to build a highly scalable, BI infrastructure that supports analytics that can help improve your business performance.
• Webcast: Overview of Analysis Services
  See how the new Analysis Services can help you attain a single version of corporate truth.
• Webcast: Introduction to Data Mining with SQL Server 2005
  Learn about the data mining process and specific mining capabilities in SQL Server 2005.
• Webcast: Getting Started with Data Mining
  Get a comprehensive overview of data mining from a database development perspective.
• Webcast: Incorporating Data Mining into the Integration, Analysis and Reporting Components of BI
  Examine how combining SQL Server 2005 with Integration Services, Analysis Services, and Reporting Services can help you gain powerful data mining capabilities.
• Webcast: Overview of SQL Server 2005 Data Mining
  Learn about the possibilities of data mining and predictive analytics in SQL Server 2005.

SQL Server 2005 Integration Services

• Webcast: Introduction to Integration Services
  See how Integration Services can help you implement data quality, data profiling, and custom transforms in your organization.
• Webcast: Overview of Integration Services
  Get an introduction to the enterprise-class capabilities of Integration Services.
• Webcast: Integration Existing Information in IBM DB2 Using SQL Server 2005 and Host Integration Server
  
• Webcast: Using Integration Services to Populate a Kimball Method Data Warehouse
  Learn design patterns for building an application that is maintainable, auditable, and scalable to populate your dimensional Kimball Method data warehouse and Analysis Services database.

SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

• Webcast: End-User Ad Hoc Reporting with SSRS
  See how SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services can help you easily build business data models for end users.
• Webcast: SQL Master Class: Using Report Builder
  Discover how Report Builder can help you customize reports to your liking.
• Webcast: Introduction to SQL Server 2005 Report Builder
  Learn about the capabilities of Report Builder.
• Webcast: Introduction to Reporting Services
  Find out about exciting new Reporting Services features and how they fit into the Microsoft BI solution strategy.
• Webcast: Adding Rich Reporting to SharePoint Server 2007 with SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
  See how the combination of SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 Reporting Services and Office SharePoint Server 2007 creates a centralized user interface for enterprise-wide report management.

2007 Microsoft Office System

• Webcast: Deploying the 2007 Microsoft Office System
  Discover how the Setup feature and installation tools in the 2007 Microsoft Office system offer you behind-the-scenes help with your most difficult tasks.
• Webcast: Grow Your Business Using the 2007 Microsoft Office System
  Learn how your company, regardless of its size, can garner new business with the right solution that addresses your needs.

Office Excel 2007

• Webcast: Microsoft Office System Webcast: Tips and Tricks to Manage Data Effectively by Using Excel Tables
  Learn tips and tricks that can help you streamline your calculations and summaries by storing your information in Microsoft Office Excel 2007 data tables.

• Webcast: Microsoft Office System Webcast: Top 10 Tips for Office Excel 2007
  See the top 10 ways you can put Office Excel 2007 to work for you.

Office SharePoint Server 2007

• Webcast: Extending Search Capabilities with Office SharePoint Server 2007
  Learn how protocol handlers extend the capabilities of Office SharePoint Server 2007 search services.