Entries tagged with sql server analysis services - Channel 9

Media Business Intelligence - Decentrix and BIAnalytix - Part 2

Kirk Evans — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:52:00 GMT

In this episode, host Kirk Evans talks with Dr. Michael Ludwich, VP of Consulting at Decentrix, where Dr. Ludwich provides a demonstration of the BIAnalytix solution. This quite an interesting demonstration, helping to show the value of BI in a media organization.

In Part 1 of this interview, we talked with Wayne Ruting, CEO of Decentrix, about the importance of business intelligence in a Media & Entertainment company. Decentrix has quite a client roster, including some of the largest broadcasters, cable operators, and telcos in the US. We talk about why BI matters, how BI is not simply providing reports in a transactional application, and we learn more about Decentrix and their BIAnalytix offering.
In part 2 of this interview, we will see a demo of BIAnalytix.

Media Business Intelligence - Decentrix and BIAnalytix - Part 1

Kirk Evans — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:18:00 GMT

In this episode, Kirk Evans talks with Wayne Ruting, CEO of Decentrix, about the importance of business intelligence in a Media & Entertainment company. Decentrix has quite a client roster, including some of the largest broadcasters, cable operators, and telcos in the US. We talk about why BI matters, how BI is not simply providing reports in a transactional application, and we learn more about Decentrix and their BIAnalytix offering. I learned a lot during this interview about the importance of BI in M&E, and Wayne is a very interesting guy to listen to.

In part 2 of this interview, we will see a demo of BIAnalytix.

CRM Accelerators: Analytics

Girish Raja — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:10:00 GMT

Reuben decided to take control of things on this channel9 video as we discuss about the Analytics accelerator. <Alert> we recorded this video really early in the development cycle for this accelerator. There are far more cool capabilities and reports in the final version of this accelerator than what we see in this video. </Alert>

The analytics accelerator provides a set of Performance Dashboards and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for analyzing the data residing within the CRM platform. It utilizes SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) for creating OLAP cubes. SSAS is also used here for creating predictive analysis with some fully functional samples. The analytics accelerator will work with SQL Server 2005 with some components enhanced to take advantage of SQL Server 2008.

Check out more Channel9 videos on CRM Accelerators here and please visit http://www.codeplex.com/crmaccelerators to download the accelerators.

Happy coding!

Reporting and Analytics in Dynamics AX 2009

Ben Riga — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:14:00 GMT

I spent some time with Manoj Nuthakki on the Dynamics team chatting about how we take full advantage of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) in the recently released Dynamics AX 2009. AX 2009 ships with 10 SSAS cubes out of the box so includes tons of prebuilt KPIs and reports all built on the SQL Server BI platform.

Manoj walks us through how reports and charts are built in Visual Studio including conditional formating or custom business logic in C# while pulling metadata and data directly out of AX. The reports are easily put into the AX 2009 rich desktop client and the enterprise portal web client (built on SharePoint). With the role center integration a developer can build reports, charts and KPIs that appear only for the appropriate roles. Since AX is an international product, localization is built right in.