Business Intelligence VPC Release 6
Microsoft has released a very interesting Virtual PC on her downloads site. Unfortunately you can't find it directly on their site, but I added the links so you can download it easily. In these VPC sits everything what Microsoft has at this moment for BI, among Office Enterprise 2007, SharePoint Portal server 2007, SQL server 2005 SP2, ProClarity 6.3 and PerformancePoint server 2007! Naturally you can only use these VPC for demonstration and evaluation aims.
THE VPC exist from seven downloads:
Total download size is about 5 GB, the Administrator password which is necessary to logon is pass@word1 (and this VPC will expire on 8/17/2009 - Hopefully just in time for PPS v2). To run the VPC nicely, you actually need 4 GB internal memory. So what is different. Version 6 includes new demos and presenter scripts for different verticals. When you extract the files it creates an additional demos folder which now contains all of the scripts so you don't need to try and pull them off the VPC at all. It still has all of the same programs installed and configured which is very nice. Here is everything it contains and I highlighted the new items.
| Presenter Scripts | Applications Installed | Sample Databases / Cubes |
- Business Intelligence “All-Up” Presenter Script
- Financial Analyst
- VP of Sales
- Sales Representative
- Chief Financial Officer
- Data Analyst
- 2007 Microsoft Office System Launch Demo
- Data Mining Deep Dive
- Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence Demo
- Banking Demo
- Federal Government Demo
- State & Local Government Demo
- Healthcare Demo
- Oil & Gas Demo
- Retail Demo
- Project REAL Sample Demos
- SQL Server 2005 Demos
- PerformancePoint Launch Demo
- PerformancePoint Budgeting Demo
- PerformancePoint CRM Demo
- PerformancePoint MAP (Monitoring, Analytics, and Planning) Demo
- PerformancePoint Planning Demo
- PerformancePoint Planning Consolidation Demo
- PerformancePoint Management Reporter Demo
- PerformancePoint Sales Forecasting Demo
- PerformancePoint Strategic Planning Demo
- OfficeWriter Demo
- PerformancePoint Hands-On Labs
- New Account Load Demo
| - Windows Server 2003 R2 Service Pack 2
- Internet Explorer 7
- Office Enterprise 2007
- Office Visio 2007
- SharePoint Portal Server 2007
- SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (w/ SSIS, SSAS, SSRS)
- SQL Server 2005 Data Mining Add-ins
- SQL Server 2005 SharePoint Integration Add-in
- ProClarity Analytics Server 6.3
- ProClarity Dashboard Server 6.3
- ProClarity Desktop Professional 6.3
- ProClarity Web Professional 6.3
- PerformancePoint Planning Server 2007
- PerformancePoint Planning Add-In for Excel
- PerformancePoint Planning Business Modeler
- PerformancePoint Monitoring Server
- PerformancePoint Monitoring Scorecard Builder
- OfficeWriter for Word Plug-In
- OfficeWriter for Excel Plug-In
- Project REAL Reference Implementation
- Business Intelligence Metadata Samples
| - AdventureWorks
- AdventureWorks_Mfg (for Lean Manufacturing)
- AdventureWorksDW (for AdventureWorks data warehouse)
- Camden (Local Government)
- Contoso (for PerformancePoint Planning)
- EP
- Government_AppDB (PerformancePoint Planning)
- HC
- Healthcare_AppDB (PerformancePoint Planning)
- OSS (Healthcare)
- PDW (for PerformancePoint Planning)
- PeoplSoft Financials_AppDB (PerformancePoint Planning)
- PPS Launch (for PerformancePoint Planning)
- PSFIN_Data_Mart
- REAL_Source_Sample_V6 (for Project REAL)
- REAL_Warehouse_Sample_V6 (for Project REAL)
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