Webcast: Versions – A Document History
In this session we will discuss versioning within SharePoint document libraries. How you configure, manage and use versioning to manage the document creation process. We will also point out some of the issues to plan for when using versions with your Document libraries. Presented by: Daniel Galant Sponsored by: AvePoint
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Project Crescent – Beyond Cool
One of the coolest tools released in the Denali CTP is Project Crescent. In case you haven’t had time to go and view most of the Pass Keynote where Crescent was previewed for the first time, I attached a link here with a high level intro of the product by Amir Netz.
What makes Crescent cool? It is the complete package.
Crescent is a tool that runs in your browser, running on silverlight. You don’t have any software to upload to the client machine.
Crescent gives you the ability to upload BI stories from your intellegence. In Crescent you can manipulate, review, mine, all kinds of things, as if the data was local with blazing speed.
You can visualize and interact with data directly in Crescent.
Crescent provides the capability to package and publish your data in meaningful and artful ways.
I like the packaging part the best. Many tools can take data and generate slides with graphs, charges, tables, facts, etc. Crescent goes beyond that. Picture a power point presentation that is interactive without programming. Click on a piece of a pie chart, and all the other related charts and facts update to reflect the selected piece.
Not only did you upload your data into the PowerPoint presentation, you updated the interaction of the data with all of it’s different modes of presentation. Like Amir says, this can make data mining really fun. It’s fast to discover new facts, and even to discover what the source of those facts may be.
As you can see, the Denali release is an incredible acheivement impacting so many core products. It is more than a release for SQL Server. It is data mining for the masses using tools we already know. Crescent could be considered a kind of portal that links much of it all together.
Go see the presentation yourself, or see the online labs if you have access.
Let me know what you think? How can you see your organization becoming more effective with a tool of this kind? Send your thoughts to btaylor@sswug.org.
Cheers,
Ben