Where is Your Focus?
With all the tremendous interest around BI, new vendors and tools are emerging almost every day. In general, you can approach your BI needs in two ways. You can try […]
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Data Models for Self-Service BI
The self-service BI journey starts with the business user importing data. With Microsoft Power Pivot, we encourage the user to import tables and create relationships among these tables, similar to […]
Building a Custom ETL Framework with SSIS 2012
Even though the SSIS catalog and the new project deployment mode in SQL Server 2012 take care of many of the mundane monitoring needs, a custom ETL framework is still […]
Dynamic Dimensions
Scenario You need to assign a dimension dynamically to a cube measure group, such as to calculate binning. In the extreme example, you might need to perform fact row level […]
KPIs on Smartphone
Some of your might be familiar with the PushBI mobile BI offering of Extended Results. The company was recently acquired by Tibco. Now rebranded as Tibco Spotfire Metrics, its mobile […]
Analyzing Power Pivot Models with Tableau
Now that Tableau has been highly praised by Gartner, you might be looking for ways to make the best of both self-service BI tools: the great data modelling capabilities and […]
2014 BI Outlook: Who’s Hot, Who’s Not
While Microsoft has fallen a bit in the Gartner’s eye, according to InformationWeek, it’s the hottest BI vendor in 2014. I guess the reason is that Gartner focuses predominantly on […]
Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms 2014 Released
Gartner released the 2014 update of the Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms Magic Quadrant. Interestingly, Gartner moved the predictive capabilities to a new Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics Platforms and […]
Atlanta MS BI Group Meeting on February 24th
Atlanta BI fans, Join us for the next Atlanta MS BI Group meeting on Monday, February 24th. Lance England will present “introduction to MDX”. Computer Associates will sponsor our meeting […]
When Dynamic Sets Are Not Dynamic
In my “Optimizing Dimension Data Security” blog, I’ve mentioned that converting static sets to dynamic could reduce the connection initialization time. To my surprise, using Excel to connect to the […]
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