Speaking Engagements
Come hear us speak at the following conference:
| Date: |
Monday - Thursday,
June 7-10, 2010 |
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| Location: |
Microsoft BI Conference 2010,
New Orleans, LA |
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| Topic: |
“Dashboard
Design Best Practices
” |
| Summary: |
How can you design an effective, useful, and appealing dashboard? Many
articles and books focus on the mechanics of how to choose KPIs and the
various formats available for displaying data. But even the most
significant information can be lost if it is not displayed in a
memorable way. Is the right format for critical values a grid, a graph, a gauge, maps, diagrams, or something else? What kinds of information are best displayed in a line vs. a bar graph? Where does a scorecard fit into all of this? Since they are not static, how dashboards interact and how they fit into a larger reporting environment offer a particular design challenge. Designing the navigation across the content on each dashboard page is critical to communicating the desired message. Learn techniques for displaying a set of data in a dashboard for maximum impact and receive a framework for constructing dashboards from the various content types. |
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Symmetry Presenter: |
Dan Bulos |
| Date: |
Monday - Thursday, June 7-10, 2010 |
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| Location: |
Microsoft BI Conference 2010,
New Orleans, LA |
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| Topic: |
“So Many BI Tools, So
Little Time” |
| Summary: | Microsoft has a broad range of tools that can be used to create a BI application: PerformancePoint, Reporting Services, and Excel on the presentation side and SQL, Analysis Services, PowerPivot, and Excel models on the data side. Which ones should you use when? Should an application mix and match or should an application focus on a limited set of tools? While the technologies in each class have similarities (PerformancePoint, Reporting Services, and Excel all have bar charts), they are fundamentally different and should be used in different circumstances. Compare the tools and learn nuances of each of them by seeing them in the context of real world examples. See how choosing different tool strategies can impact your application. | ||
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Symmetry Presenter: |
Dan Bulos |
Join us at the following web casts:
| Date: |
On Demand |
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| Location: |
Microsoft |
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| Topic: |
“Performance
Management Using Project Server 2007 and PerformancePoint Server
2007” |
| Summary: |
The Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution allows users in
an enterprise environment to create, select, plan, and manage projects
over their lifespan. The EPM Solution includes Microsoft Office Project
Professional 2007, Project Server 2007, and Project Portfolio Server
2007. Operational systems such as those built with EPM have a
point-in-time view of the world for most metrics. As the number and
complexity of projects rise, the need to easily create performance
management reports becomes critical. In this webcast, learn how to use
the Microsoft Business Intelligence suite to augment the suite of
built-in operational reports in the EPM Solution to deliver a broad
range of analysis to the entire organization, including how to:
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Speakers: |
William Brown, Symmetry & Christophe Fiessinger, Microsoft |
Download slides from our past web casts:
Microsoft Web Cast
Topic:
Business
Intelligence Product Architecture for ISVs (slides), Symmetry
Speaker: Dan Bulos; Microsoft Speakers: Michael Acosta, Dave Wickert
Microsoft
Web Cast
Topic:
Incorporate
Business Intelligence Into Your Applications for ISVs (slides),
Symmetry Speakers: Dan Bulos, Mark Nimnicht; Microsoft Speakers: Chris
Large, Michael Acosta
Microsoft Web Cast
Topic:
The
Value of Business Intelligence for ISVs (slides), Symmetry
Speakers: Dan Bulos, Mark Nimnicht; Microsoft Speakers: Chris Large