I'll be speaking at Atlanta Code Camp on August 24th. Given the developer-oriented nature of the event, I settled on a more code-intensive topic: Real-time BI with StreamInsight. "So, you have (or heard of) classic BI, self-service BI, Big Data BI, descriptive, predictive or even prescriptive BI, but do you have real-time BI? Real-time business intelligence (BI) has become one of the top priorities for…
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Off the BI path but I wanted to save this tip for future generation and my sake in case I forget and I run into the same issue in Windows.NEXT or a new laptop. My $3,500 HP 3-year old EliteBook 8540w is prone to overheating. If a task puts a sustained pressure on the CPU, e.g. 10% or more, the fan engages and produces a…
Read articleExpanding its Office 365 feature set, Microsoft introduced Power BI. Power BI is an umbrella name of the following BI offerings in the cloud: Power Pivot, PowerView, Power Query (previously known as Data Explorer), and Power Map (previously known as GeoFlow), plus more. Microsoft demonstrated Power BI at WPC yesterday (scroll to the 30th minute marker to see the Amir's heart attack-provoking demo) or see…
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Issue: A client reports an issue with our PerformancePoint dashboard where the clicking a KPI in the scorecard doesn't show the supporting analytical grid. Normally, when the user clicks a row in the Operational Scorecard (see the image below), the SharePoint connectable architecture triggers an update of the Operational Detail Report Months analytical report that shows more details about the selected KPI. Workaround: Finding…
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