As you’ve probably head, Office 2013 supports now two installation options: the traditional MSI-based installation and the new Click-To-Run streaming installation. Chris Webb mentioned about it here and Melissa Coates […]
More and more organizations are planning and adopting dashboards. And, the question “which visualization tool is the best for dashboarding?” has been asked more frequently. The visualization aspect of BI […]
Although it might not be immediately obvious, Power View supports various options for exploring data in more details. Although some scenarios are not natively supported, workarounds could be available. Drilling […]
Data is your biggest asset and today’s currency but the data can be messy. You know it and we’ve seen it. The messier the data, the bigger the headache. At […]
The next Atlanta SQL Saturday will be on May 3rd. I’m doing a “Deep Dive into the Microsoft BI Semantic Model (BISM)” pre-conference session on May 2nd. You can register […]
At the Atlanta BI meeting last night, there was a question from the audience about differences between Inmon and Kimball and which methodology should be followed when implementing a data […]
As you know, Microsoft BI is tightly interwoven with Excel on the desktop and SharePoint on the server. Most complaints about SharePoint fall in two categories: Complexity – SharePoint is […]
Our next Atlanta Microsoft BI meeting will be on Monday, January 27th. The main presentation is “Bus Matrix – the Foundation of your Dimensional Data Model” the speaker is Bill […]
Power Pivot (and Tabular) uses the Access Connectivity Engine (ACE) provider to import from text files. This provider was originally designed for Microsoft Access databases and it’s limited to import […]
A customer is moving from Impromptu to SSRS. One of the SSRS missing features that was very important for this customer was the Imprompu pick list that allows users to […]
