Legacy conversions to SAP Business Objects Planning and Consolidation application yielded outstanding results for a multibillion-dollar, 11,000 employee financial services company. Recently, a multibank holding company, with presence ...[Read More]

Recently, I was asked to alter a Content Query Web Part (CQWP) to use a custom style and include an image. The requirements were simple, each item should have a title with a corresponding image and description underneath it.   Before diving i ...[Read More]

Many finance organizations have recognized the need to take Corporate Performance Management to the next level. It is commonly believed that the plan itself has no significance, but rather is a means to an end. As a result leading organizations atte ...[Read More]

SharePoint 2010 Configuration. So far I have posted about jPoint, the jPart, and how to put the solution all together in WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007. Part 1 – A Little background Part 2 – Puzzle Pieces Part 3 – The jPart Part 4 – Putting it all togethe ...[Read More]

Putting it all together. In the first 3 parts of this series I discussed the code behind the Bing Maps and SharePoint integration solution. In this part I will list out how to create the visual aspect of the solution. The jPart is now code compl ...[Read More]

The jPart as promised. For those that have been following along this week, at the end of Part 2 I promised I would dive right into the code of my modified jPart. With the list ready and data populated I was ready to dig into the code. You sa ...[Read More]

In Part 1, I discussed some background on the solution I needed. In Part 2 I will go into the puzzle pieces of code snippets that I had to digest from Hector and CodePlex. Since what Hector sent me was only two functions that were a pa ...[Read More]

Finally they work together with a little help from jPoint. Last week I started down a path to integrate Bing Maps AJAX SDK and WSS 3.0. You may ask, "Bryan! Why use the AJAX SDK and WSS 3.0 when you could use the Silverlight SDK and MOSS 20 ...[Read More]

Recently, I went to my sp2010 demo environment to rollback a server so that I can install the somewhat recently released SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM and SharePoint 2010 RTM. My virtual environment is a simple one: one box is the domain controller and the ...[Read More]

One of my coworkers wanted to work on the new PerformancePoint platform with SharePoint 2010 RTM. He asked me to get the site up and running with PerformancePoint services. Not a big request, I did it before using beta software in the past. Should ...[Read More]