Data View Web Parts in SharePoint 2003 provide great control over the retrieval and display of items in disparate libraries and lists. I won’t try to convince you of that in this post, but if you do decide to use Data View Web Parts, there’s a "feature" that you may run into that there is…
Chris Webb had an interesting post the yesterday that reminded me of the book Flatland, which I read and really enjoyed many moons ago. I read Flatland when I was a teenager in the 1970s studying geometry and many other things without understanding much of any of it. The book fascinated me, and I went…
Microsoft’s licensing and pricing can sometimes seem byzantine. However, there is a nice page at Microsoft’s Web site that lets you answer a set of questions to arrive at pricing. Check out: http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/mpla Technorati tags: Microsoft, Licensing
From The OLAP Report via Chris Webb’s BI Blog, an interesting list of Twelve ‘Next Big Things’ that didn’t happen in the Business Intelligence arena. An interesting and thought provoking read. Technorati tags: Business Intelligence, OLAP
There is a new set of application templates for WSS 3.0 available from Microsoft with more on the way. Application templates are out-of-the-box custom scenarios tailored to address the needs and requirements of specific business processes or sets of tasks in organizations of any size. They can be applied to a task, such as managing…