Feature Articles

Top Features of SQL Server 2005 (codename “Yukon”)
The next version of Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Server 2005, is currently in beta and scheduled for release in early 2005. Improvements in SQL Server 2005 are focused on business intelligence, developer productivity, and enterprise data management.  This article provides an overview of the key SQL Server 2005 features.

How to Make Knowledge Workers More Productive
In the Summer 2004 issue of the Sloan Management Review, three top management thinkers—Michael Hammer, Dorothy Leonard and Tom Davenport—addressed the issue of how organizations can make their knowledge workers more productive. This article provides a high-level summary of their insights.

Kevin McKelvey Has Joined KMA to Drive Business Development and Services Sales Efforts
We are excited to announce that Kevin McKelvey has joined KMA from Microsoft's New England SMS&P organization. In his new role, Kevin will focus on driving business development, marketing and sales efforts for KMA in New England, while managing the strategic relationship with Microsoft.

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Building an Executive Dashboard with the Business Scorecards Accelerator
How does your organization measure against strategic goals?  How are you taking advantage of the increasing amount of corporate data to expedite business decisions?  Most executives don't have good answers to these questions.  Information is often isolated in disparate sources and reporting to the executive office is is often inconsistent and non-uniform.  Business scorecards were developed so the first question (performance measurement) can be effectively answered by organizing analytics around the second (corporate data).  Recently, Microsoft introduced a Business Scorecards Accelerator to allow its customers to take advantage of end-to-end business intelligence reporting.  This article will discuss the Business Scorecards Accelerator and its organizational benefits.

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About Knowledge Management Associates

Knowledge Management Associates applies its deep expertise in Microsoft technologies and tools to building custom, innovative business applications for clients in the areas of knowledge management, business intelligence, data and presentation solutions and emerging technologies. During the past five years, we've helped companies achieve significant improvements in business performance:

    • faster response time to customers
    • enhanced productivity (by minimizing ‘reinventing the wheel’)
    • improved sales and operational forecasting through better analysis tools
    • heightened employee morale through easy-to-use systems

Founded in 1995, KMA has a breadth and depth of experience not typically found in small IT companies. We are our clients’ trusted advisors and they value the highly responsive partnership relationship we bring to our engagements. Think of KMA as an extension of your IT organization, fluent in the latest development technologies and here for the long haul. We'll help you build, refine, update and maintain systems that leverage today’s advanced technologies to address today’s competitive challenges.

You can read more about us on the web at: www.kmainc.com.

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