I didn’t travel to the SQL Pass Business Analytics conference this week but I keenly followed what was going on via the #passbac hashtag on Twitter. Seemingly the big announcement was Geoflow Preview for Excel 2013, an add-in for Excel that visualises data over space and time (read more at Public preview of project codename “GeoFlow” for Excel ...

(As with all of these types of posts, check the date of the latest update I’ve made here. Anything older than 6 months is probably out of date, given the speed with which we release new features into Windows and SQL Azure) I don’t normally like to discuss things in terms of tools. I find that whenever you start with a given tool (or ...

More info from InformationWeek: http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206104502&subSection=News.  :{> Andy

The Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference 2007 website is now live. The conference is scheduled on May 9-11, 2007, in Seattle, WA. It's not a ''traditional'' Microsoft technical conference like TechEd and PDC: it's targeted more on project managers, decision makers, IT manager... and, yes, also IT professionals, but this indicates to me that ...