Gartner’s 2013 Business Intelligence Magic Quadrant
Gartner released the 2013 BI Magic quadrant report. And the winner is…
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Gartner’s 2013 Data Warehouse Magic Quadrant
MVP fellow, Andrew Burst, discusses Gartner’s newly released DW (not BI, mind you) magic quadrant. It looks like Gartner fell in love with Teradata but Microsoft is moving up as […]
Performance Degradation with the Aggregate Function and Unrelated Dimensions
I ran into a severe performance issue with the Aggregate function and unrelated dimensions which I reported on connect. In this context, an unrelated dimension is a dimension that doesn’t […]
PowerPivot Data Refresh in Excel 2013
What options does a PowerPivot user have to refresh data in a PowerPivot model on the desktop, aka PowerPivot for Excel? Prior to Excel 2013, the answer was just one […]
PerformancePoint 2013 Dependencies for Analysis Services
Besides the usual hassle configuring PerformancePoint, including insufficient permissions to databases and service accounts, version 2013 requires the SQL Server 2008 R2 drivers. This is surprising considering that SharePoint 2013 […]
The SharePoint 2013 Business Intelligence Center
Where should I put my BI reports? Should I upload them to department-level SharePoint sites or put them in one place? These are common questions that we get from customers. […]
Programming MapReduce Jobs with HDInsight Server for Windows
In a previous blog “Installing HDInsight Server for Windows”, I introduced you to the Microsoft HDInsight Server for Windows. Recall that HDInsight Server for Windows is a Windows-based Hadoop distribution […]
Happy Holidays!
As another year is winding down, it’s time to review and plan ahead. 2012 was a great year for both Prologika and BI. On the business side of things, we […]
DAXMD Goes Public!
Microsoft announced yesterday the availability of the Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 With Power View for Multidimensional Models (aka DAXMD). As a participant of the CTP […]
Atlanta BI Group Meeting on Monday, December 3rd
I’ll be presenting What’s New in Excel 2013 and SharePoint 2013 BI at our Atlanta BI Group on Monday, December 3rd. Microsoft has recently released the 2013 version of Excel […]
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