BI group / meeting which may be of interest to members

[Alina Hsu]

Hi everyone,

I wanted to let you know about this group, and the topic of their next meeting sounds especially interesting...

Cheers,

Alina Hsu, President

IASA NYC Chapter

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From: Brust, Andrew [mailto:andrew...@tallan.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 2:17 PM
To: Brust, Andrew
Subject: DATE CORRECTION: A *business* session on Microsoft BI on NOVEMBER 8th

 

CORRECTION.  The date of the meeting is NOVEMBER 8^th!  Sorry!

 

 

All ,

 

As many of you may be aware, I recently founded MSBINYC: the Microsoft BI User Group of NYC.  We have had two very successful meetings already, and are gearing up for our next one on Monday, November December 8^th in the Palace meeting room at the MS NYC office at 1290 Ave of the Americas.

 

For this next meeting. We’re trying something a bit different for a user group: we’re going to focus on the business case for using Microsoft BI.  Our speaker is my BI Partner Advisory Council colleague (a founding member of the PAC, in fact), Scott Stein.  Scott is a big BI “man on campus” having founded Thorogood’s US offices, served as the BI Practice Director for Avanade Northeast, led up Solver’s New York office and is now serving as the CEO of Insight Solutions Partners Inc. (InsightSPI), the company he founded after leaving Solver.

 

The business evangelism value of this talk is not to be underestimated. Rather than a technologist’s talk, this one’s really aimed at BDMs and TDMs, including CxOs.  Take away the acronyms and that means Scott’s talk is perfectly suited to your customers.  Scott can make the case for MS BI and do it with the credibility of being a partner.  But he knows the stack as well as almost anyone, be they an MS FTE or external.

 

I am hoping you will spread the word about this meeting to both your customers and colleagues (for those of you in Redmond, I am obviously referring to your contacts and customers here in the NYC area).  A description of the meeting, suitable for forwarding, is below.  And there’s a link for the registration site at the end of it.

 

Thanks in advance for your help!

 

 

 

The Business Case for Microsoft BI

While business intelligence initiatives remain front and center in most enterprise business and IT agendas, and the demand for pervasive and comprehensive Microsoft BI applications increases, it is now more critical than ever to demonstrate tangible value, ensure project success, “defend the spend” and build bulletproof business cases for the Microsoft BI platform. In this session, we’ll present/discuss the business case for Microsoft BI and break through the “noise” to clarify the following:

1. How does the Microsoft BI platform play a key role in enterprise standardization and information management strategies?

2. How does the MS BI business case stack up to competitive BI platform value propositions?

3. How does the MS BI business case play across different industries?

4. How does the Microsoft BI platform support initiatives for Business Performance Management (BPM, or CPM, or EPM, or ExcedrinPM)?

5. How do MS BI platform choices increase BI project success rates and minimize project failures?

Please come with questions, real-world scenarios or the desire for a clear view of how the Microsoft BI platform aligns with your organization’s goals.

Presenter(s):

Scott Stein, InsightSPI

Bio:

Scott Stein is co-founder and CEO of InsightSPI, a specialist provider of performance management software solutions and integrated business intelligence strategies. For more than 20 years, Scott has helped organizations embrace high-impact business intelligence and performance management capabilities, leveraging his background in enterprise software project management, business process consulting, and domain expertise that spans pharmaceutical, financial services, consumer products, retail, and transportation industries. Scott has led some of the largest and most complex global implementations of Microsoft’s BI platform, and is an inaugural member of Microsoft’s Business Intelligence Partner Advisory Council.

Date/Time:

11-08-2010 6:00 P.M. - 8:30 P.M.

Location:

Microsoft NYC offices,  Microsoft - 1290 Avenue of the Americas, 6th Floor,  ,  New York,  NY,  10104,  

Register now

 

 

Thanks again!

 

Andrew J. Brust

Tallan, Inc.

Chief Technology Officer

 

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