[LINK] Microsoft BI Labs

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

Microsoft has launched its BI Labs site .. 

Microsoft Business Intelligence

http://www.microsoft.com/bi/en-us/Community/BILabs/Pages/Home.aspx

BI Labs 

BI Labs is a collection of experimental business intelligence projects 
and useful applications made available from internal sources across 
Microsoft. These projects are prototypes and concepts, and there are no 
current plans to include them in Microsoft products. New ideas can pop up 
at any time, so please check back often to see what's new. We look 
forward to your feedback. Enjoy! 

(The first batch of BI Labs projects are available for free. Eg ..)


* Microsoft SQL Server Data Mining for the Cloud

This project experiments with data mining as a service, providing a 
collection of cloud-based data-mining services based on the same 
capabilities that are currently available in SQL Server Analysis Services.

<www.microsoft.com/bi/en-
us/Community/BILabs/Pages/DataMiningInTheCloud.aspx>


* Fuzzy Lookup Add-in for Microsoft Excel 2010

Microsoft Research developed the Fuzzy Lookup add-in for Microsoft Excel 
2010, which performs fuzzy matching of textual data in Excel. This may be 
best described as Excel v-lookups on steroids.

<http://www.microsoft.com/bi/en-
us/Community/BILabs/Pages/FuzzyLookupAddInforExcel.aspx>
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Cheers,
Stephen