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…

I’ve just downloaded the new Windows Live Writer (Beta).  It seems to be pretty neat.  It lets you edit posts offline in a richer UI and publish directly to your blog.  There’s also integration with tagging sites, spell check, and simpler tools to insert images from the Web.  You can also download extensions from Windows…

Follow these steps to prepare your machine for development or production Web Services applications that take advantage of AJAX. I had to cull these steps from multiple blogs, MSDN information, etc. Development or Production 1. If not already installed, install .NET Framework 2.0http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5&displaylang=en2. Install ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions 1.0http://ajax.asp.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=473. Install ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Futures January…