SharePoint Business Strategies Meeting

This week Dosensio got a chance to attend a meeting held by the SharePoint Business Strategies User Group of Chicago.

The meeting was organized by Ross Freedman of RightPoint Consulting. Directions Training, who co-sponsored it, also provided free food and drinks; something always much appreciated by overworked entrepreneurs. It was hosted by Microsoft at their offices in the Aon Center.

Dan Vandercar from Microsoft introduced the audience to the Microsoft PerformancePoint Server, which is now part of the enterprise version of the Microsoft SharePoint Server. He demonstrated how business data (such as sales figures) can be extracted from different sources, analyzed and turned into compelling financial presentations. Live graphs and tables can be hosted on SharePoint sites so everyone with just a web browser has access to the data.

Check out Meetup for more information on this meeting. The Business Strategies SPUG main page can also be found on Meetup.

Jeff Willinger from RightPoint Consulting announced the next SPUG (which the SharePoint User Group is affectionately known as) meeting for May 5th. On May 27th they will hold a half day seminar called “Show Me the Money!” answering the simple question: how can companies safe money by using SharePoint? We are intrigued.