http://www.thesharepointinsider.com Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and WSS 3.0 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:31:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog announced today that SharePoint has passed the $800 Million mark for the previous fiscal year and is the fastest growing Microsoft server product in Micro$oft''s history. Congrats to the Blue Monster! http://www.thesharepointinsider.com/sharepoint-2007/sharepoint-is-the-fastest-growing-server-product-in-microsofts-history/ Nigel Pendse has renamed his OLAP Survey to the BI Survey.  Major players in BI, including Microsoft rely on the data in this survey to analyze consumer needs.  From the invitation: We would very much welcome your participation in The BI Survey. This is the largest independent survey of business intelligence/OLAP ... http://www.thesharepointinsider.com/business-intelligence/business-intelligence-survey-updated/ Thanks to Chris Webb for the tip off.         Rumored PPS Release Date. http://www.thesharepointinsider.com/business-intelligence/performancepoint-rumored-to-go-rtm-as-early-as-september/ This series of posts was brought to my attention by Ben Tamblyn and outlines a very practical understanding of PerformancePoint Planning.  A series of four articles, Adrian Downes has taken the time to shed some light on not only the features of PPS Planning, but the business models that drive ... http://www.thesharepointinsider.com/business-intelligence/performancepoint-planning-must-read/ Using BDC to query our company''s SharePoint profiles database ( SharedServices1_DB in our environment ) I was able to create a pretty snappy employee lookup.  The data is contained in two tables, the first is the UserProfile_Full table, which contains the Basic Profile Information. The second is the UserProfileValue table. ... http://www.thesharepointinsider.com/sharepoint-2007/using-the-bdc-and-sharepoint-profile-database-to-create-a-company-directory-lookup/