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When Developers and BI Collide

I've been running in this situation quite often so I thought this will make a good topic for a blog. Scenario: Management has asked for some sort of a BI solution, such as a dashboard. BI hasn't happened to the organization in question yet. But...

Published Sat, Mar 9 2013 6:36 PM by tlachev

Filed under: General, Business Intelligence
Happy Holidays!

As another year is winding down, it's time to review and plan ahead. 2012 was a great year for both Prologika and BI. On the business side of things, we achieved Microsoft Gold BI and Silver Data Platform competencies. We added new customers and consultants...

Published Tue, Dec 25 2012 8:47 PM by tlachev

Filed under: General
SQL PASS 2012 Day 1 Announcements

I hope you watched the SQL PASS 2012 Day 1 Keynote live. There were important announcements and I was sure happy to see BI being heavily represented. For me, the most important ones were: The availability of SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 For some reason...

Published Wed, Nov 7 2012 7:12 PM by tlachev

Filed under: General, Events
Business Intelligence on Surface

Microsoft has started shipping the cool Surface RT tablets this week with Surface Pro to follow in January. Naturally, a BI person would attempt BI in Excel only to find that BI and Power View (no Silverlight support) are not there as Kasper explains...

Published Fri, Oct 26 2012 10:27 AM by tlachev

Filed under: General
Your Data Warehouse in the Cloud?

I spoke with a customer today that has implemented Salesforce.com. For those who are not familiar with Salesforce, it's a popular cloud-based, customer relationship management (CRM) product. As it usually happens, just when you're done with the...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2012 9:56 PM by tlachev

Filed under: General
Microsoft Case Study for Recall and Prologika

Microsoft published a case study "Records Management Firm Saves $1 Million, Gains Faster Data Access with Microsoft BI". Prologika architected the data warehouse, OLAP cubes, and presentation layer consisting of operational reports, SharePoint...

Published Thu, Aug 16 2012 1:49 PM by tlachev

Filed under: General
BIDS Helper 1.6 Beta Released

Fellow MVPs have just released the latest public beta build of BIDS Helper , which should one of the first utilities you install after you install SQL Server on your machine. Besides fixes and updates, this release adds support for SQL Server 2012 and...

Published Tue, Mar 20 2012 1:54 PM by tlachev

Filed under: General
Happy New Year 2012!

As 2011 is winding down, it's time to reflect on the past and plan for the future. 2011 has been a very exciting year for Microsoft BI and me. Gartner positioned Microsoft as a leader in the 2011 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms...

Published Sat, Dec 31 2011 6:08 PM by tlachev

Filed under: General, Business Intelligence
MVP For Another Year!

Just got the news that my MVP status got extended for another year! This will make it six consecutive years as MVP and as a member of an elite group of professionals that I am proud of belonging to.

Published Fri, Oct 1 2010 2:12 PM by tlachev

Filed under: General
Most Requested Features

You can use the Microsoft Connect website to find most requested features. Unfortunately, the search doesn't let you specify a product so the search results may be related to other products. For example, searching on reporting services may bring in...

Published Mon, Dec 21 2009 4:06 PM by tlachev

Filed under: General, Reporting Services, Analysis Services
Microsoft Live Labs Pivot

In case you've missed this, the Pivot era has begun. After Excel PivotTable and PivotChart, we'll have PowerPivot in SQL Server 2008 R2. But Pivot evolves… A co-worker showed me today a glimpse of the Pivot future which I guess is the Microsoft...

Published Wed, Dec 2 2009 3:39 PM by tlachev

Filed under: General
Cumulative Update 3 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1

Microsoft released today a Cumulative Update 3 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1. Among other things it fixes the Report Builder 2.0 ClickOnce deployment issue on x64 which I reported here .

Published Tue, Jul 21 2009 12:44 PM by tlachev

Filed under: General, SQL Server 2008
Google – The Best Thing that Ever Happened to Microsoft

On a different subject, you've probably heard the news : Google will release an operating system called Google Chrome OS which will challenge Windows and instill fear into the Microsoft camp. To the contrary, I think Google is the best thing that...

Published Wed, Jul 8 2009 7:07 PM by tlachev

Filed under: General
Transmissions from TechEd USA 2009 (Day 4)

I got the final evaluation results from my session. Out of some 15 Business Intelligence sessions, mine was the fourth most attended session with 169 people attending. Based on 35 evaluations submitted, it was ranked as the third most useful session with...

Published Fri, May 15 2009 1:08 AM by tlachev

Filed under: General, Business Intelligence, Events
Transmissions from TechEd USA 2009 (Day 3)

Today was a long day. I started by attending the Richard Tkachuk's A First Look at Large-Scale Data Warehousing in Microsoft SQL Server Code Name "Madison". Those of you familiar with Analysis Services would probably recognize the presenter's...

Published Thu, May 14 2009 12:51 AM by tlachev

Filed under: General, Business Intelligence, Events

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