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PerformancePoint 2010

PerformancePoint? Is it still around? It is (in SharePoint 2010), and it should peak your interest if you are serious about dashboarding. The planning component is of course gone and I have to admit I never had too much faith in it. When comes to dashboards...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) by Teo Lachev on Thu, Sep 2 2010

Filed under: SharePoint, PerformancePoint
Kerberos Woes

[Wikipedia] Cerberus, (pronounced /ˈsɜrb(ə)rəs/);[1] Greek form: Κέρβερος, /ˈkerberos/[2] in Greek and Roman mythology, is a multi-headed hound (usually three-headed) which guards the gates of Hades, to prevent those who have crossed the river Styx from...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) by Teo Lachev on Mon, Aug 23 2010

Filed under: Business Intelligence, Windows
Applied PowerPivot Course Available

I am excited to announce that Prologika has added an Applied PowerPivot course to the list of our training offerings in response to the strong interest for self-service BI. The class can be delivered as two-day online class (4 hours each day) or as one...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) by Teo Lachev on Sun, Aug 22 2010

Filed under: Training, Self-service BI, PowerPivot
PowerPivot Implicit Data Conversion

A student noticed an interesting behavior while I was teaching my PowerPivot class last week. He noticed that PowerPivot lets you join a text-based column to a numeric column. As it turns out, PowerPivot does an implicit conversion to text when it discovers...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) by Teo Lachev on Mon, Aug 16 2010

Filed under: Self-service BI, PowerPivot
Professional Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel and SharePoint

I had the pleasure to read the book Professional Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel and SharePoint by Sivakumar Harinath, Ron Pihlgren, and Denny Guang-Yeu Lee. All of the authors are with the Microsoft Analysis Services team. Together with David Wickert...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) by Teo Lachev on Fri, Jul 30 2010

Filed under: Business Intelligence, Self-service BI
PivotViewer Extension for Reporting Services – a Cool BI Fusion with Confusing Name

Although late to the party, I announce the arrival of a very interesting BI technology - PivotViewer Extension for Reporting Services – CTP1 . What's interesting is that it leverages several BI technologies to provide great data visualization...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) by Teo Lachev on Wed, Jul 21 2010

Filed under: Business Intelligence
Atlanta BI Group First Meeting Topic Announced

I've just updated the Atlanta BI Group home page to announce the topic for our first meeting on August 23th. Given the great interest surrounding Self-service BI, I'll present "Self-service BI with Microsoft PowerPivot". Hope you can...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) by Teo Lachev on Sat, Jul 17 2010

Filed under: Business Intelligence, Atlanta.MBI
OLAP PivotTable Extensions for Excel 2010

Kudos to Greg Galloway (SQL Server MVP) for upgrading his fantastic OLAP PivotTable Extensions for Excel 2010 add-in (now available in both x32 and x64). This add-in is one of the first third party tools I install on a new machine. Since the Excel team...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) by Teo Lachev on Sat, Jul 10 2010

Filed under: Business Intelligence, Microsoft Office
Yet Another Report Timeout Solved

Every now and then, I run into mysterious report timeouts. This time the client had a farm of two report servers integrated with MOSS with long running reports that would time out after two minutes or so. Normally, you shouldn't have such report monsters...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) by Teo Lachev on Sun, Jul 4 2010

Filed under: Reporting Services, SharePoint
Atlanta.MBI Website

The website for the Atlanta Microsoft Business Intelligence SIG is up and running although it's still work in progress. http://atlantabi.sqlpass.org 1. Please register. 2. Please fill in the two polls on the first page for the first meeting attendance...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) by Teo Lachev on Fri, Jul 2 2010

Filed under: Atlanta.MBI
Venue for Atlanta.MBI Found

The great search for a meeting place for the Atlanta BI SIG is over! I am happy to report that I found the perfect place. Matrix Resources graciously offered to host and sponsor our meetings in a training room at their premises at 115 Perimeter Center...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) by Teo Lachev on Thu, Jul 1 2010

Filed under: Business Intelligence, Atlanta.MBI
Venue for Atlanta.MBI Wanted

To follow up on my recent blog about forming an Atlanta-based Microsoft Business Intelligence Special Interest Group, I am planning to have our first meeting in August. The effort now is to find a venue where we can meet. If you have a confirmed location...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) by Teo Lachev on Wed, Jun 23 2010

Filed under: Business Intelligence, Atlanta.MBI
Interactive Sorting and Matrix

A customer requested the ability to interactively sort a matrix on rows and columns. When they click the sort indicator in a row, the matrix should sort columns based on that row. For example, if the first rows is clicked and we are in an descending sort...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) by Teo Lachev on Sun, Jun 20 2010

Filed under: Reporting Services
Atlanta Microsoft Business Intelligence Special Interest Group (SIG) Forming

To Atlanta Business Intelligence fans: Some of you have approach Geoff Hiten and me about forming an Atlanta-based Microsoft Business Intelligence group. After an intense internal discussion and brainstorming involving SQL Pass, Atlanta.MDF, and the local...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) by Teo Lachev on Sun, Jun 13 2010

Filed under: Business Intelligence
Attend One BI Training Class - Get One Consulting Hour Free!

I am back from vacation in Florida and I am all rested despite the intensive sun exposure and the appearance of some tar from the oil spill. I have scheduled the next two runs of my online training classes: Applied Reporting Services 2008 Online Training...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) by Teo Lachev on Sun, Jun 6 2010

Filed under: Reporting Services, Analysis Services, Business Intelligence, Training

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