Silverlight + SharePoint
At Mix this week Microsoft is releasing some details on their plans for Silverlight within SharePoint. Microsoft is releasing blueprints on how to build Silverlight webparts, navigation, etc. The are providing the blueprints and code examples of this at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/cc303301.aspx.
Not only is this great news from a general SharePoint perspective, but also from a SharePoint BI front. This will lend well to creating custom visualization web parts for dashboards. The web parts will allow for more custom interactions and very crisp dynamic graphing and charting capabilities.