By storing KPIs in Analysis Services, the KPIs become reusable by SharePoint, PerformancePoint, Excel, and custom code.  This article demonstrates a few examples for managing KPIs within Analysis Services. Required References: 1: using System; 2: using System.IO; ... [More]

Now that we have covered programmatically managing KPIs within Analysis Services, let’s look at pulling KPIs into a dataset. I am using this dataset in a datagrid and Telerik grid to display a KPI List.  This grid is then used within PerformancePoint and filtered by organization and desired t... [More]

I have worked with Microsoft PerformancePoint Server 2007 since it was in Beta, and with all the functionality it provides, every client has asked for at least one custom control.  And since most of the data used within PerformancePoint is in Analysis Services, it becomes imperative that progra... [More]

Every where you turn these days, you are hearing more and more about Twitter. Twitter provides a way for individual’s to follow anyone from their neighbor, kid’s teacher, as well as today’s celebrities. Twitter also provides way to reach a number of people from friends, clients, co-worker in a matter of minutes. Thus it is important for companies to leverage this great innovation to their advantage. [More]

Every site you browse now days has RSS feeds. Using site content from other sites via RSS feeds, helps keep your content fresh. This means that you are leveraging other’s time and knowledge to build your site’s value. My partner and I wanted to leverage our blogging effort in our corporate website, to display the latest blog entries for visitors to see, as well as making them aware that we have a blog. However we ran into a problem our blog is on another domain. [More]

I have been devoted to Quicken/Quickbooks for analyzing my spending trends. But now that I have found Mint.com, my analysis has gotten easier and is more impressive. Check it out. [More]

Over a year ago, my wife was unable to find a phone that worked for here and supported the business functions she wanted, so I bought her the phone that I was drooling over – the iPhone.  I knew, it was easy to use, but little did I know that it was so easy to use that she would never ... [More]

Recently, I had lunch with a good friend of mine, Jim Hogan of Enaxis Consulting.  He specializes in corporate strategies and processes to make business more productive.  We discussed a number of things from business opportunities, the market to technology, but one thing Jim said rea... [More]

Ever wonder how some sites can have a cool icon in the top corner of the browsers, and yours only has the default browser icon   VS.     Would you website look better, if you could have you logo/icon displayed all the time? Well, it is simple.  This article outlines th... [More]

  Small business owners have a tendency to try to do everything themselves, rather than relying on others who are experts or professionals other areas, simply because they THINK it will be cost effective.  In reality, they end up spending more time doing something that they are ill-equipp... [More]