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Have you investigated Microsoft's business intelligence tool, PerformancePoint? This tool, and BI in general, is the focus of our February guest blogger, author Ola Ekdahl. He writes, "A common requirement of clients is to allow end users to filter data from scorecards and reports on a dashboard based on a Time Intelligence formula. Time Intelligence formulas allow users to view data over time such as Year Over Year (YOY), Last Period, Rolling Average, and Year To Date (YTD). ...PPS provides its own expression language called Simple Time Period Specification (STPS). STPS allows you to create time intelligence formulas rapidly." We are also giving away 15 copies of Ola's book, Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Service 2010.

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  • Startup Huddle wins Microsoft's SharePoint 2010 contest Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Fri, 01/29/2010

    On Friday, Microsoft announced that Huddle was the winner of a weeklong, invitational contest, in which seven startups were challenged to build a social app for SharePoint 2010 in just one week. But all seven applications had wow power. Huddle won for its SharePoint add-in that lets enterprise teams invite external users into their daily SharePoint workflow, synchronize their SharePoint document libraries with content stored on the Huddle network, or even on other SharePoint sites. SharePoint users can also gain access to their files through Huddle’s online, mobile and desktop applications.

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  • Microsoft gags ex-CFO Chris Liddel and pays him $1.9M Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Thu, 01/28/2010

    Nothing like being paid almost two million bucks for leaving a job and keeping your mouth shut -- one $950,000 check a month after you've left and another $950,000 six months later. That's the sweet deal Microsoft gave Chris Liddell, the company's former chief financial officer who officially resigned on November 24.

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We have 15 copies to giveaway of the "rough cut" version of Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Services 2010 Unleashed, an upcoming title from Pearson Education, a $49.99 value. This is special preview copy of the book, which is expected to be published in July. 

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