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Free Training - Creating Performance Dashboards!

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Just heard about a series of free training events on creating performance dashboards. Looks pretty interesting. Description, dates, locations, and links to register are below.

-John

Microsoft and BlueGranite present:

Dashboard in a Day Seminars

Learn best practices and methodologies on how to quickly build and deploy dashboard solutions leveraging Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) technologies to monitor, analyze, and plan key business activities.

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Greetings!

Microsoft and BlueGranite are hosting our popular Dashboard in a Day Seminars in Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee in late January and February 2008.  These are half-day events for business and technical leaders interested in implementing dashboard solutions to provide better monitoring, analysis, and planning capabilities for teams in sales, finance, and operations.  Learn best practices, witness examples, and discuss your questions with experienced BlueGranite and Microsoft team members.

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Today's Challenge

We often hear IT and business leaders question their organization's ability to access data and information from their primary business systems.  Typically, information is manually extracted from these business systems and saved into disconnected Excel files for use by executives, managers, and general business users.  This manual approach can prevent valuable, relevant data from reaching the right people at the right time and can force decisions to be made based on outdated information.

Doing More with Less

Business leaders today want better, faster insight into their organization's performance.  At our Dashboard in a Day Seminar you will learn how to monitor, analyze, and plan around key business activities using automated metrics.  The easy-to-use yet powerful analytical tools provide staff at different levels the ability to make faster, better informed decisions.  As business and technology leaders, you will learn how dashboards and analysis capabilities can dramatically improve team performance and propel your organization to success. 

· Make better, more effective business decisions with up-to-date information

· Implement metrics to show historic trends and progress toward goals

· Share metrics with your team to provide focus on strategy and execution

Performance Dashboard Solutions

Performance Dashboards are the new face of Business Intelligence.  Contextual business insight combined with collaborative workspaces empower the people in your organization to make better, faster decisions, leading to improved business performance. 

Our performance dashboard platform from Microsoft including SharePoint, PerformancePoint and SQL Server provides high-performance analytical database components and leading-edge monitoring, analytical, and planning capabilities.  These components are well integrated and are delivered in a user-friendly, web-based environment that's simple to use by staff at all levels of the organization.

Seminar Overview

This Dashboard in a Day Seminar provides an overview of these best practices and project approaches from both business and technical perspectives.  You will see case studies and demonstrations for sales, marketing, and finance activities that demonstrate first-hand how these tools have helped other organizations.  You will also see working examples of how these dashboards were built using the Microsoft BI platform.

We look forward to meeting you at this upcoming event.  Event seating is limited, so please register as soon as possible.

Agenda

8:00 AM - Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM - Welcome and Overview of Using Automated Metrics
9:30 AM - Best Practices for Dashboard Planning and Implementation
10:30 AM - Solution Examples, Case Studies and Dashboard Components
11:30 AM - Wrap-up and Closing Remarks

Registration Links

Cincinnati, OH

4605 Duke Drive Suite 800
Mason, Ohio 45040

January 30, 2007

8:30am to 11:30am

Register Today!

Columbus, OH

Polaris Center-Fourth Floor

8800 Lyra Drive

Columbus, Ohio 43240

January 31, 2007

8:30am to 11:30am

Register Today!

Grand Rapids, MI

2525 East Paris Ave. SE Suite 100

Grand Rapid, MI 49546

February 5, 2007

8:30am to 11:30am

Register Today!

Southfield, MI
Fifth Third Bank
1000 Town Center Suite 2000
Southfield, MI 48075
February 6, 2007
8:30am to 11:30am

Register Today!

Nashville, TN

2555 Meridian Blvd. Suite 300

Franklin, TN 37067

February 12, 2007

8:30am to 11:30am

Register Today!

Memphis, TNICBC Global

6465 N. Quail Suite 200

Memphis, TN 38120

Feburary 13, 2007

8:30am to 11:30am
Register Today!

Independence, OH

Park Center III

6050 Oak Tree Blvd.

Independence, Ohio 44131

February 19, 2007

8:30am to 11:30am

Register Today!

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