Jerry Smith was a dynamic and exciting presenter. He showed how so many new things that are coming to SharePoint. And the approach that now involves going beyond the Pie to bridging the gap between data and people.

My favourite is the Pivot, having used it in the past for clients like National Australia Bank, the Silverlight pivot is going to be standard in sharepoint 2010

See

http://csgresults.com/contoso_smartsearch/

http://www.wssdemo.com/Pages/graph.aspx

 

He gave a very powerful analysis of retail on how each element of the retail process could address the retail challenges from creating a new product promotion, store manager preparation, to logistics manager and then to manage the performance.

 

The demo of the store inventory with the live pivot, was shown as part of the searching for a new product. The demo below was part of managing the performance

http://visualfusion.idvsolutions.com/RetailAnalyzer/default.aspx

 

SharePoint and Sap integration was also demonstrated as a powerful way to use SharePoint for Line of Business Integration.