Microsoft announced today that it acquired Datazen Software. This is a great news because an on-premise mobile dashboard solution has been a big pain point with Microsoft BI. SharePoint Excel […]
As I mentioned here and here, Marco and I teamed up to invigorate the DAX Editor with some new features. Today we officially released the latest updates and published in […]
UPDATE 4/24/2019 The new JSON-based Tabular schema doesn’t support extensions so Tabular Editor and BI Developer Extensions (BIDS) won’t work. In my previous blog, I announced a few new features […]
UPDATE 4/24/2019 The new JSON-based Tabular schema doesn’t support extensions so Tabular Editor and BI Developer Extensions (BIDS) won’t work. As it stands, Tabular (versions 2012 and 2014) doesn’t have […]
To follow up on my previous post on the same subject, a customer was eager to jump on the Power BI->On Prem SSAS bandwagon and try the simplified security model. […]
When you work on more complicated DAX measures, you should get out of the Power Pivot or BISM design environment and use the excellent DAXStudio (or SSMS) with the EVALUATE […]
As you’ve probably heard, Power BI vNext will allow you to keep your data on premises in SSAS MD and Tabular data models while your reports in the cloud can […]
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 […]
Scenario: 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: […]
Every 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 […]
