Interconnected bliss… Friday, March 13, 2009
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I have been trying for a long time to automate syncing google calendars (ical’s) together with my Iphone. There are a few options on the web to do that but most of them require signing up to 3rd party exchange server “look alike” routing services!! It needed new accounts to be set up and a password handover clause :s to be signed : yuk!
anyhow, last week google “yet again” came to the rescue by launching a free Google Sync Service. This service can syncronise upto 5 Internet Calendars to your mobile device at present it supports Iphone, Blacberry, Nokia, Sony Ericsson & Windows mobile. Its very easy to set up (detailed instructions here).
By default it only syncs default google calendar, to sync any others just browse to http://m.google.com/sync on iphone and specify others individually. In less then 10 minutes my 10 month search was over. All my internet cal’s are now automated to “pull” sync and the best part is it even does event alarms hmmmm one step closer to that interconnected bliss.
Comedy at its best! Sunday, April 6, 2008
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Over the last few years it has grown to be a tradition in my annual to-do list and I absolutely love it, I am talking about Melbourne’s International Comedy Festival.
Last weekend we went to 2 laugh out loud shows, One was of a local FM Host Jo Stanley who makes one half of my favourite FM morning time - The Matt & Jo Show and the second was of an nutcase Irish Comic called Jason Byrne. The quality of comedians who are invited is just getting better and better Me & Priya were literally falling off the seats laughing so hard.
I didnt know this before but Melbourne International Comedy festival along with Montreal & Edinburgh is one of the world’s largest comedy festival. Dont think i will miss much if the rumours of Formula1 moving out of Melbourne comes true :P but do will i miss this event if it moves away.
loaded my pod with… Sunday, March 30, 2008
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the top 10 songs from iTune store and I ran the Run for the Kids 2008.
This was my first “long distance” run and running in a sea of red shirts (30,000 to be correct!) was incredible.
The atmosphere, the people, the views, the tunnel, the bolte bridge, It was so worth it and the money goes to such a worthy cause. Probably my sore legs wont agree at the moment but both my mind & body want to surely do this again, hell yeah!
Hierarchy Management and Decision Making Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Posted by kalyanimath in Ideas, Microsoft.Tags: Hierarchy Management, MDM, SQLServer
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General Ledgers, Chart of accounts, Cost centers, Organisational Structure, Product lines, Sales Territory … the list of these Enterprise lists are far too many too mention, Hierarchy management in BI is essentially the discipline of defining and manipulating these enterprise data lists for the purpose of improving analysis of business processes and stream line the process of information integration.
Found an excellent article at tdwi talking about how an abstracted analysis layer for hierarchies can help organisations maintain competitive advantage by opening new realm of flexible analytics by allowing its business users to create their own alternate views of the organization and ask questions.
A powerful, flexible Hierarchy Management is one of the most important & interesting module of an MDM. One of my biggest qualms when designing a MDM in the SQLServer 2000/ 2005 was the lack of an efficient way to store & traverse data stored in tree structures, SQLServer 2008 is now sporting a new Data type called HeirarchyId. This will make our job so much easier, phew 
XMLHttpRequest Object – Javascript rocks! Monday, February 25, 2008
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I finally managed to put together a site for our local SQUASH Club – Hawthorn Recreation Squash Club
The requirements for the site was fairly basic, It has 4 pages with club specific information about location, teams, gallery & contact.
Since i didn’t want to invest too much on writing new code, I used javascript to leavarage on exisiting technology & bring things together. From reading CSV files to integrating with Google Maps, Javascript can so easily mash it all up together.
Here is a code snipett that uses the XMLHttpRequest Object to extract xml data from a http response stream -Javascript rocks!
//create the Cross-browser XMLHttpRequest object
function getFile(pURL,pFunc) {
if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // code for Mozilla, Safari, etc xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
eval(’xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=’+pFunc+’;'); xmlhttp.open(”GET”, pURL, true); // leave true for Gecko
xmlhttp.send(null); } else if (window.ActiveXObject) { //IE
xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject(’Microsoft.XMLHTTP’);
if (xmlhttp) {
eval(’xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=’+pFunc+’;');
xmlhttp.open(’GET’, pURL, false);
xmlhttp.send();
}
}
}
training Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Posted by kalyanimath in Squash.Tags: Personal, Squash
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Well, For the past few weeks I have been trying to run more often & much further then i ever did.
Currently I am on training to participate in the 14.1 K Herald Sun’s Run for the Kids Race , This is the first time I am planning to run this distance and have some doubts about running all the way to the finish but none the less I am determined to cross the line may it be crawling or just rolling down 
It is still early but all this running has done wonders to my Squash game, I can now hold a rally and fight back to to the T* more easily then every before.
*T is the strategic spot in a Squash Court which both players try to grab inbetween their shots, From this spot it is able to cover any given area of the court with a best ability to strike the ball.
addendum Friday, February 15, 2008
Posted by kalyanimath in Microsoft.Tags: Master Data Management, MDM
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To my earlier “Long way from Panorama” post, I wanted to add that Microsoft has now climbed to top position in the “Ability to Execute” Axis only.
To reach the overall top position in the Gartner’s Magic Quadrant Grid, Microsoft needs to now further address its strategies for “Completeness of Vision”. One of the big strategic move to address this vision was acquiring Strature (An MDM Product) mid last year.
Ever since I had an opportunity to design & build a enterprise core Master Data Management application for a big Telecom Company in Australia, I have been quite keen in keeping up to date on MDM Technologies.
Microsoft’s approach to MDM further tightens the integration of their BI, SharePoint, and Dynamics platforms by offering a web interface (driven by SharePoint) to data management (driven by SQL Server) that integrates easily with new or existing Enterprise Operational systems.
Microsoft’s MDM Road-map can be found here.
Ideas worth spreading: TED Monday, February 11, 2008
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Not very often i get to a web page and wished I had seen it before, I recently stumbled upon TED and had one of those missed moment.I am captivated by this site. There is something alluring about hearing people talk about that someonething they are passionate about.
It is exteremly hard to generalise people talking about Giant SunFish to people talking about Mining the moon, But for me all of these people showed one common trait and that was – having that inextinguishable, unceasing appetite for learning.
I hope to some extent i can live by like that
Come a long way from Panorama! Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Posted by kalyanimath in Uncategorized.Tags: Gartner, OLAP, SSAS
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From its first foray into OLAP Server Business with the acquisition of the Israeli-based Panorama Software, Microsoft has now climbed to top rank in the Gartner’s Latest Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence.
Personally I thought it was meant to happen but am surprised on how quickly the industry has seen the integrated attractiveness of Microsoft’s Office Suite with SQLServer 2005/ Katmai & the new Performance Point Server.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206104502&subSection=All+Stories
Timeline showing Microsoft’s OLAP Services *Source Wikipedia
| July 1, 1996 | Microsoft opens new team to build an OLAP product, codenamed Plato (permutation of letters from OLAP) |
| July 15, 1996 | Panorama Software delegation meets with Microsoft |
| October 27, 1996 | Microsoft announces acquisition of Panorama Software development team |
| November 1998 | OLAP Services 7.0 (codename Sphinx) ships |
| August 2000 | Analysis Services 2000 (codename Shiloh) ships |
| November 2001 | XML for Analysis SDK 1.0 ships |
| April 2003 | ADOMD.NET and XML for Analysis SDK 1.1 ship |
| October 28, 2005 | Analysis Services 2005 (codename Yukon) ships |
| 2008 | SQL Server 2008 (KATMAI) |
Hello World! Monday, February 4, 2008
Posted by kalyanimath in Personal.Tags: Personal
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And here comes my first entry into blogosphere.
A bit about me,
I am a BI Solution Specialist working with/for MS Partners providing clients with intelligent Business Solutions using the fast evolving Technologies in the Microsoft BI Stack (SSAS, SSIS, SSRS & the new MS BPM Product – Performance Point Server). I am passionate about all the possiblities Microsoft BI is opening up and am looking forward to share the exciting ride with SQL Server as it moves into a more niche visonary role in the aspect of providing pervasive business data insight.
Hope you enjoy the blog. Would love to hear any feedback anyone has.
Cheers,
Sandeep
