Video: Citizen Service Platform in Porto

You can read the Case Study here.

Hi all,

Daniel Dias Pereira will be presenting our Board Meeting solution on a live webcast this afternoon.

His presentation will be in portuguese:

Webcast 26 - "The Best of Techdays 2008 ITPro" - Innovation Day - Administração Pública Electrónica: Gov 2.0

- CaveDigital (Daniel Pereira): Reuniões e Colaboração Digitais;

A solução CaveDigital Board Meeting 2007 vem potenciar a Modernização Administrativa ao nível dos Decisores de topo, permitindo que as suas reuniões passem a ocorrer no plano digital, contribuindo assim para a diminuição drástica do consumo de recursos naturais e do impacto ambiental, bem como para potenciar o aumento da agilidade nos processos de tomada de decisão. Na sua variante Town Hall Edition, esta solução dá resposta às Reuniões de Câmara, desmaterializando por completo o fluxo de trabalho, desde a elaboração das propostas até à sua deliberação em Reunião de Câmara e resultando também na criação automática de minuta de acta.

Será demonstrada a solução implementada na Câmara Municipal do Porto, onde a plataforma supracitada estima-se (baseado em dados recolhidos desde a entrada do sistema em funcionamento) permitir a poupança de até 30 àrvores por ano, para além dos ganhos na qualidade das propostas e tempo de preparação de cada Reunião de Câmara.

To subscribe to this webcast, go to: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032379345&Culture=pt-PT

Cheers!

Both me and Daniel Pereira just did 70-630. Instead of bragging about it, let's just say it's done, with style

Via Bart,

«Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies - Community Technology Preview (CTP) November 2006

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Add-in for SharePoint Technologies (Reporting Services Add-in) allows you to take advantage of SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (SP2) report processing and management capabilities within Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The download provides the following functionality:

• A Report Viewer Web Part that provides report viewing capability, export to other rendering formats, page navigation, search, print, and zoom.
• Web application pages so that you can create subscriptions and schedules, and manage reports, models, and data sources.
• Support for using standard Windows SharePoint Services features including document management, collaboration, security, and deployment with report server content types.»

Also, pay special attention to:

«Warning: No automatic upgrade support
Pre-release versions of the Reporting Services Add-in cannot be upgraded to a future version. Also, it is possible that you might not be able to upgrade the report server database that you create in this release. If this occurs, you will have to republish all data files and redefine subscriptions, schedules, report history.»

Get it here

As promised, I'm releasing some of our documentation, so here's the following white paper, in portuguese:

Microsoft Learning Gateway 2005
Arquitectura de Referência para Portais Educativos

Sumário Executivo
Portais são ferramentas de agregação e disponibilização de conteúdos e serviços online para as organizações. Um Portal ao serviço da Educação potencia uma melhor interacção entre os diversos intervenientes (Professores, Alunos, Encarregados de Educação, Funcionários Administrativos, etc.), uma ponte entre estes intervenientes e as organizações (Administração Pública e Local, Agrupamentos Escolares, Escolas, Fornecedores, etc.) e, quando associada uma forte componente colaborativa, podem potenciar a produtividade e agilizar o trabalho e as actividades do dia-a-dia destes intervenientes e organizações.

Este documento procura descrever uma arquitectura de referência para Câmaras Municipais, ou outras estruturas organizativas agregantes, para uma solução que permita a fácil disponibilização de conteúdos e ambientes colaborativos, simultaneamente potenciando uma plataforma sobre a qual seja possível desenvolver respostas a necessidades específicas das organizações, ao nível estratégico e ao nível operacional, bem como agilizar a integração dos seus diversos sistemas.

20051122192300 - MLG 2005 - Arquitectura de Referencia para Portais Educativos.zip (1,01 MB)

Hope it is useful to someone out there

Today will be the last day of this training workshop on Development with SharePoint and K2.net I'm giving - hope it has been helpful to my trainees and that they will succeed and make me proud with every project they do with these technologies.

Here's something I would like to share with everyone

Via Mart,

«KPIUtil.exe is a tool that allows users to connect to both a Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 server and a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services server to do the following:

• Generate SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services key performance indicators (KPIs) from Business Scorecard Manager KPIs.
• Generate Business Scorecard Manager KPIs from SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services KPIs.
• Save a configuration file that contains parameters (including the connection information to the SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services server and the Business Scorecard Manager server) that you entered by using KPIUtil.exe. You can use the saved configuration file either to generate KPIs from a command prompt or to open the configuration file in KPIUtil.exe at a later time.

download here»

Today both me and Xana (my better half) have passed our first MCP exam:

70-228: Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition!

During this past week, we attended a U2U course by Nico Jacobs here in Portugal:
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for Developers
ISV Summer School

Nico did a great job showing the new features and «bells and whistles».

I'm really enthusiastic about Integration Services, Service Broker and Data Mining capabilites on the new SQL Server 2005.
Here are some nice screenshots for you guys wondering

Integration Services:
This really makes me happy - I can now make in minutes what in the past could easily take me days or weeks!!

Data Mining:
SQL Server 2005 eases the entire data mining thing, in a few minutes, we were predicting Bike Buyers profiles based on the Adventure Works sample database

We've also played a bit with Reporting Services, but in my opinion, it still has space for maturing - although as it is, already adds nice functionality for end users and devies (a «devie» - short for «Developer»... I came up with that, seems to be sticking ).

Web Services for your database is also a sexy topic, which we might try on a project we're on, the team is still in the process of deciding  - let's see if we will head that way or not.

Bottom line, SQL Server 2005 makes me, as a developer, feel empowered to build better stuff