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Living away from home makes you miss friends, family… and, perhaps oddly, the place. VR Web Design offer a service which gives a Virtual Tour of London and other cities which is very innovative and cool. Note: the spheres are areas of focus / interest which can be clicked on to shift the focus to another part of the city.   This was ...

When Alexander of Macedonia [link] was 33 he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer, its a shame he wasn't around in today's world as there would be plenty of battles for him to get his teeth into - especially with visualizing reams of information in a ever flowing and tempestuous sea of data which can be visualized in a 3D ...

With the recent changes to PerformancePoint Server the way it is procured and licensed is changing. If like me, you still want to offer clients a BI solution which uses PerformancePoint the following may be of interest - good news, it is getting cheaper (thanks to the guys at Microsoft who gave me the information): · Until April 1st, the ...

I don't want to wish my life away, but I cannot wait for 2019 if this is what we are going to be working, playing and living with.   Predicting the future is tough - we still don't have flying cars, my jet pack is yet to materialise and summer holidays aren't on the moon... but some of Microsoft's Business Division have come up with ...

Building on from a previous post Business Intelligence Data Visualisation - How to Confuse... I look into more detail about adding context to BI with a quick win - add textual descriptions to reports to tell a story. I have all too often seen and indeed been involved in projects where wonderful reports have been created; agonising over how to ...

Gartner have highlighted mashups as a growth area for 2009 and predict that ''by 2012, one-third of analytic applications applied to business processes will be delivered through coarse-grained application mashups'' in the Five Predictions report. I have been looking at harnessing the power of mixing geographic visualisation techniques with ...

I don't mean Social BI as in a Social Smoker or Social Drinker - someone who only does it on weekends, in a crowd or once in a while.... I am coming from the collaboration, decision making dialogue, tagging perspective. Where users have a greater ability to collaborate  informally as people do with other social sites (LinkedIn, Facebook ...

Associative data modeling is something that I have used a lot in the past for dynamic entity centric Data Warehouses. Associative data models can offer a more flexible platform than relational models and can be used for iterative data development (although performance can be an issue). From playing with AWS and seeing some of the Azure and SDS ...

Google Latitude is a new service that will allow you to track the location of friends and family via your phone or PC. Latitude is an add-on to Google Maps mobile software - you'll need to update to the latest version (3.0.0 at time of writing, no iPhone or Android (weird) support yet but I am up and running on my Blackberry Pearl - not sure how ...

Moving into the multiple factor authentication World (crypto calculators, tags etc) it looks like we may all have a lot of these different devices to authenticate our selves, here are my ramblings on the subject... Does anyone else have a bank account which uses crypto calculators, tags or mobile phone codes to validate a transaction? Two factor ...