On Tuesday March 2nd I will be in the Microsoft booth talking about Business Intelligence at The Art of Marketing conference. What does Business Intelligence have to do with Marketing? All kinds of things. With Business Intelligence you can: Use statistical techniques to segment your customers ... [More]

Have you ever been in the situation where you needed to know something about a population and don’t have the budget to measure it for everyone? By sampling a population and applying an Excel function you can obtain an approximation for the overall population. This concept is best illustrated through... [More]

In old movie musicals from the 1940’s there was typically a turning point where someone in the cast decides it’s a great idea to “Put on a Show!”.   Everyone would band together to make something spectacular happen and everyone would go home happy. It feels very much that way around Agora... [More]

An important part of getting value out of a Business Intelligence system is interpreting results correctly. We can often be fooled into attributing cause to random results. Consider the following graph of sales over time. It looks like something caused Sales to drop for three months. Management ... [More]

If you were on the February 2nd 2009 MSDN Canada webcast thanks for attending.  Send me an email and let me know what you thought or if you want any additional information.  Links I referred to in my webcast today: TFS Work Item Tracking - What’s New Process Templates: TFS Process Tem... [More]