See also some of my pre-vacation thoughts:

http://blogs.msdn.com/petereb/archive/2009/08/26/gemini-cures-cancer-not.aspx
and
http://blogs.msdn.com/petereb/archive/2009/08/29/gemini-destroys-the-world-not.aspx

At some level I just don’t understand this gut reaction that business users are going to screw everything up. Don’t you expect people to ask questions like why don’t your figures align with the report I get from IT in my inbox? Or is the assumption that nobody will use the expensive solutions anymore?

My real fear is that your fears are warranted but I have a completely different foundation: that decision makers don’t understand data. Not that they don’t understand the data model — which is probably the case if it is LOB systems since I don’t. My fear is that they don’t know how to compare two data points; that they fundamentally lack critical thinking skills. But that problem goes far far beyond what Gemini is addressing. My hope is that you hire strong critical thinkers and they can achieve results using Gemini that are simply too expensive to send back to IT/consultants. Or that provide a great mechanism to show IT/consultants what the finance folks need in an example fashion.

Again, though like my posts say, while not on the Gemini team, I clearly suffer from the inside the borg viewpoint….

While opening the Above URL is found

“Down for Maintenance

Site is temporarily offline due to DoS – please check back in a day or two.”

So can u please help me or give some subtitute URL if possible….

Thanx

I share your concern in regards to the potential for business logic being bypassed. It emphasises two important points about doing this sort of integration:
1) Never write directly to database tables. At least, web services can have business logic built into them.
2) Always involve the LOB system experts.

Indeed, the SPI Accelerator does not contain code. The SPI accelerator is focused around clarifying options for customers who wish to leverage the Solution Selling® sales methodology within Microsoft Dynamics CRM. SPI are rightly protective of their Intellectual Property around their sales methodology. It was vital to respect their IP from a legal standpoint but still provide valuable guidance to partners and customers. Many customers (and partners) are not aware that they have options (in some cases at no cost) around Microsoft Dynamics CRM supporting their chosen methodology. Unfortunately, the objective for this accelerator is contrary to the focus of CodePlex as you have correctly pointed out. To address this issue, we’ve moved the SPI Accelerator from CodePlex to http://crm.dynamics.com/solutions/sales-performance-international-accelerator.aspx.

The accelerator program is all about unlocking additional value for customers who have made an investment in Microsoft Dynamics CRM and in this regard the SPI accelerator is very much in the spirit of the program.

Additionally, for the sake of communicating why the Sales Methodology Accelerators were on CodePlex in the first place, the reason is simple. It was the home of all the other CRM Accelerators and we simply wanted to keep all the CRM Accelerators together in the same “home.” In hindsight, this was probably not the best choice.
That said, please note that our other CRM Accelerators do indeed contain open source code, etc., as indicated on the CRM Accelerator description page. Our intention with the CRM Accelerator program has been (and continues to be) to provide more value to our customers at no additional cost.

Thanks for pointing out your concerns in how we posted the SPI Accelerator. I hope it’s clear that we meant no confusion, and that our steps to rectify this situation are good indicators of our commitment to representing Microsoft, and more specifically, the work we do everyday – the right way.

We will be posting similar accelerators to http://crm.dynamics.com for Miller Heiman and Target Account Selling in the coming weeks to provide similar value for customers who require support for these methodologies.

Thanks for your contribution to our community and keep providing feedback around the accelerator program so we can strive to further improve!

Kind regards,
Reuben Krippner
Senior Product Manager – Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Performance Point Server was a good way forward but Microsoft seems to have made a U turn on the positioning of the product

We needed to implement dynamic writeback for large sets of data and ended up building a custom solution to handle the same, you could have look here …

http://piglings.blogspot.com/2009/08/excel-2007-olap-writeback-ssas-2008.html

http://leontribe.blogspot.com/2009/08/codeplex-hosting-non-open-source.html