Microsoft Business Intelligence Blog

Mobile Browser Market Share

Patrick Husting — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:46:00 GMT

Great visual on the market share by mobile internet browsers. http://connect.icrossing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/mobile-market-share.gif ...(read more)

The Size of the Mobile Market

Patrick Husting — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:33:00 GMT

Great infographic on the mobile business opportunities. Are you working on mobile solutions?! http://dataviz.tumblr.com/post/433636552...(read more)

Tracking the Nation’s Bank Failures InfoGraphic

Patrick Husting — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:36:00 GMT

This is an excellent example of using maps and animation to get the point across on bank failures over time. Look at Washington Mutual up here in the Northwest. Crazy. I still believe JP Chase stole WAMU for the price… http...(read more)

Android App Store Is 57% Free Compared to Apple's 25%

Patrick Husting — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:33:00 GMT

Great analytical charts can tell an interesting story. Check out this article from Gizmodo on Free vs Paid applications from the mobile OS providers. Using the brand icons to represent the company is a great idea. http://gizmodo.com...(read more)

Business Advice From Van Halen

Patrick Husting — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:30:53 GMT

David Lee Roth should be the new CFO at Microsoft or really any major company these days. Read this article on how he used a little statement inside their contracts to determine if the vendor they hired actually read the contract. Just awesome...(read more)

The BLOG is BACK!

Patrick Husting — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:48:23 GMT

Well, my ISP decided a couple weeks ago to migrate the server that our blog was on to a new hosting platform. Well, we all know what will happen, right?! Yep, we went offline for over 10 days. Kills me! The ISP was absolutely...(read more)

Investment Return Assumptions - Pensions and Benefits

Patrick Husting — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:00:48 GMT

Found this view today showing state pensions investment returns needed to be able to cover obligations. Boy, wouldn’t it be great to get these kinds of returns on your investments? I doubt they are actually getting them after the last...(read more)

Waste Management and Recycling InfoGraphic

Patrick Husting — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:11:00 GMT

This is a great example of using InfoGraphics to present information more clearer. PDF: UNEP GEO Data Portal -- Basic Facts Posters - Waste Management...(read more)

Great Infographic of what a Trillion dollars looks like

Patrick Husting — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:03:00 GMT

This is a wonderful infrographic that visually displays what a trillion dollars actually looks like. A trillion here and a trillion there doesnâ€™t sound all that bad. But if you put it into the following visual perspective, you get...(read more)

Kerberos SPN Generation / Setup Tool

Patrick Husting — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:19:00 GMT

My friend Robert has come up with some tools to help with Kerberos setup. Check them out at http://robertlambrecht.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!1738EAC7F6359C6D!2309.entry?sa=604119460 ...(read more)

Microsoft BI Conference â€“ June 7 - 10

Patrick Husting — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:38:00 GMT

Weâ€™ll be there, will you?...(read more)

Gartner Business Intelligence Summit 2010 - Recap

Patrick Husting — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:59:00 GMT

More from Bruno at the Gartner BI Summit. ...(read more)

824,000 Will Disappear On February 5 â€“ Nice chart!

Patrick Husting — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:54:00 GMT

Well, our government really needs a good business intelligence solution since they found that over 800,000 jobs were miss reported over the past year. But, I have to admit, they have a nice bar chart reflecting the job loses and the correctionâ...(read more)

Business Intelligence in 2020

Patrick Husting — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:56:00 GMT

Bruno Aziza did a video of business intelligence in the next 10 years. Pretty good watch, but he didnâ€™t ask me. :o) ...(read more)

Excel 2010 Sparklines

Patrick Husting — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:04:00 GMT

Another video on how to add SparkLines to your spreadsheets in Excel 2010. But we need better music in the video guys! ...(read more)