Microsoft and BlueGranite are putting on a "Dashboard in a Day" seminar on Jan. 30th. The event will be held at the Microsoft office in Mason.
Note that the event will be repeated in Columbus on Jan 31st.
Here is the invite text:
Dashboard in a Day Seminar
Learn best practices and methodologies on how to quickly build and deploy dashboard solutions leveraging Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) technologies to monitor, analyze, and plan key business activities.
Mason, OH
4605 Duke Drive
Suite 800
Mason Ohio 45040
January 30, 2007
8:30am to 11:30am
Register Today!
We often hear IT and business leaders question their organization’s ability to access data and information from their primary business systems. Typically, information is manually extracted from these business systems and saved into disconnected Excel files for use by executives, managers, and general business users. This can create unrest among the IT team who loses control of this information, and dissatisfaction across the user community who is stuck with data that is often outdated.
Business leaders today want better, faster insight into their organization’s performance. At this event you will learn how to monitor, analyze, and plan around key business activities using automated metrics. As business and technology leaders, you will learn how dashboards and analysis capabilities can dramatically improve team performance, providing easy-to-use yet powerful analytical tools to staff at different levels, helping managers make faster, better informed decisions.
· Make better, more effective business decisions with up-to-date information
· Implement metrics to show historic trends and progress toward goals
· Share metrics with your team to focus your people on success
The business intelligence platform from Microsoft including SharePoint, PerformancePoint and SQL Server provides high-performance analytical database components and leading-edge monitoring, analytical, and planning capabilities. These components are well integrated and are delivered in a user-friendly, web-based environment that’s simple to use by staff at all levels of the organization.
This event provides an overview of these best practices and project approaches from both business and technical perspectives. You will see case studies and demonstrations for sales, marketing, and finance activities that demonstrate first-hand how these tools have helped other organizations. You will also see working examples of how these dashboards were built using the Microsoft BI platform.
We look forward to meeting you at this upcoming event. Event seating is limited, so please register as soon as possible.
Event Agenda:
8:00 AM – Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM – Welcome and Overview of Using Automated Metrics
9:30 AM – Best Practices for Dashboard Planning, Implementation
10:30 AM – Solution Examples, Case Studies and Dashboard Components
11:30 AM – Wrap-up and Closing Remarks
BlueGranite is a Microsoft Gold Partner and Microsoft BI Virtual Technical Specialist, working with upper mid-market and enterprise clients since 1996. We are the leader in implementing performance dashboards that enable users across the organization to monitor, analyze, and manage critical business activities. BlueGranite is headquartered in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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