Developing Business Intelligence Solutions with SharePoint 2007 and PerformancePoint 2007 - SADeveloper event - Post Event Info
Ok so it took me some time to write post event info on my last speaking event (better very late than never), namely:
"Developing Business Intelligence Solutions with SharePoint 2007 and PerformancePoint 2007"
(http://dotnet.org.za/zlatan/archive/2008/04/04/developing-business-intelligence-solutions-with-sharepoint-2007-and-performancepoint-2007.aspx)
We've had a smaller crowd this time, mostly due to the session being organised right in the middle of the holidays but our diehard fans and some new faces came together with some people who attended my PPS 2007 technical session earlier ("South African Business Intelligence User Group Meeting - Cape Town 15th of April 2008" http://dotnet.org.za/zlatan/archive/2008/04/08/south-african-business-intelligence-user-group-meeting-cape-town-15th-of-april-2008.aspx) and wanted to learn even more, so this was a different yet still great event. This also made the session a lot more interactive and allowed people to ask a lot of questions this time, it was kind of like "Chalk and Talks" at TechEd.
Session started with an excellent presentation by my good friend and fellow MVP (Exchange) Nicolas Blank on new and upcoming features of Windows Server 2008 and why is Hyper-V so frikkin cool J
This presentation was in fact a "Windows Server 2008 Community Launch feedback- Cape Town" (http://blankmanblog.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!D0A1CD5B821F0EF9!254.entry)
So look out for more info and sessions coming on Blankman's blog (http://blankmanblog.spaces.live.com/)
So there is no point in putting up a deck this time as from my feedback from my first Business Intelligence PPS 2007 session I was told that people wanted to see more demos on building complete solutions with PerformancePoint Server 2007 so I just used 2 slides I think and did complete end to end demo of creating PPS 2007 (PerformancePoint Server 2007) solutions and how Information Workers, Business/Financial Analysts and CEO/CIO etc use the solution and form part of the cycle and above all how SharePoint 2007 provides an effective delivery mechanism.
I did however promise to post this application flow diagram on how to design and deploy PerformancePoint Server 2007 Planning Application:
You can download the pdf here (http://dotnet.org.za/blogs/zlatan/ApplicationFlowDiagram.zip)
Last but not least once again kudos goes to (for sponsoring the event):
Business Connexion (food) and Microsoft (venue).