The 2005 Gartner Magic Quadrant is out and according to Gartner, the distance between Tableau and the other leaders is widening. Here is the full report. It's obvious that Gartner focuses only on the self-service aspect of BI and throws away the entire gamut of tools required to deliver successful BI solutions, including RDBMS, ETL, data models, MDM, etc. But even if we focus on…
Read articleScenario: You have Power View integrated with SharePoint. You attempt to create a Power View report that connects to a SQL Server 2014 cube. The connection fails with "Internal Error: An unexpected exception has occurred". The connection used to work or works with SQL Server 2012 SSAS MD. Resolution: On the SSAS 2014 server, install Cumulative Update 2 for SQL Server 2014. This article provides…
Read articleEvery organization should have a strategy for self-service BI. As a rule of thumb, my advice is that 80% of the BI effort should be directed toward implementing organizational BI solutions (DW, ETL, data model, dashboards, big data, predictive analytics, and so on), while 20% should be left for completing self-service BI analytics. But which tool to choose for self-service BI? With so many vendors…
Read articleCome and join us for an information-packed meeting of the Atlanta Microsoft BI Group on February 23th. You will learn about Power BI vNext and Panorama Necto. Our sponsor will be Panorama. Introducing the Reimagined Power BI Platform by Jen Underwood, Microsoft You have seen glimpses of the new Power BI platform during the Public Preview reveal. Although it may not be apparent, Microsoft has…
Read articleSometimes, your DAX calculated measures might need to filter a table dynamically based on a certain condition. For example, you might have a Type 2 table like this one: ClaimID ClaimDate ClaimStatus RowStartDate RowEndDate XXX-1 1/1/2015 Open 1/1/2015 1/15/2015 XXX-1 1/1/2015 Approved 1/16/2015 12/31/9999 When a change is detected on the existing claim, this design expires the previous row and adds a new one. A…
Read articleA prerequisite for creating a relationship in Tabular/Power Pivot is to have a primary key column in the table on the One side of the relationship. This column must have unique values. If it doesn't, the relationship won't get created and you'll get an error that the both tables have duplicate keys. If you have a relatively large table, it might be difficult to find…
Read articleIn an attempt to give customers more transparency, Microsoft recently published a Cloud Platform Roadmap. The product groups are also actively seeking feedback for the on-premise products (also known as boxed products). For example, if you have subscribed to the Power BI.vNext public preview, you can use the BI in SQL vNext forum to provide feedback (not sure why there instead of on connect.microsoft.com). So,…
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