Localizing Reports in SharePoint
In a current project, international users indicated that they prefer dates and numbers to be formatted using their regional settings. Localization is a big and complicated topic and we’ve been […]
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What’s New in Office 2013 BI: Part 1 – Personal BI with Excel
As you probably know by now, Microsoft unveiled the Office 2013 Technology Preview. As the portal page says, “we’ve Taken Self-Service BI to the Next Level”. Indeed, this is where […]
Formatting Calculated Members
Consider the following calculated member definition added to the script in an Analysis Services cube: CREATE MEMBER CURRENTCUBE.[Measures].[Revenue TTM] AS ([Measures].[Revenue Amount USD], [Relative Date].[TTM]), FORMAT_STRING = “Currency”, VISIBLE = […]
MS BI Guy Does Hadoop (Part 5 – The Big Picture)
Let’s recap my thoughts on Hadoop. I’ve found the case studies presented in the chapter 16 of the “Hadoop: The Definitive Guide” book very useful to understand how organizations are […]
MS Guy Does Hadoop (Part 4 – Analyzing Data)
In my previous blog, I talked about Hive. Hive provides a SQL-like layer on top of Hadoop so you don’t have write tons of MapReduce code to query Hadoop and […]
Report Timeout Quest Reloaded
A long time ago, I wrote a blog about possible reasons for Reporting Services reports to time out. This issue raised its head again; this time in SharePoint 2010 environment […]
MS Guy Does Hadoop (Part 3 – Hive)
Writing MapReduce Java jobs might be OK for simple analytical needs or distributing processing jobs but it might be challenging for more involved scenarios, such as joining two datasets. This […]
MS BI Guy Does Hadoop (Part 2 – Taking Hadoop for a Spin)
In part 1 of my Hadoop adventures, I walked you through the steps of setting the Cloudera virtual machine, which comes with CentOS and Hadoop preinstalled. Now, I’ll go through […]
MS BI Guy Does Hadoop (Part 1 – Getting Started)
With Big Data and Hadoop getting a lot of attention nowadays, I’ve decided it’s time to take a look so I am starting a log of my Hadoop adventures. I […]
Is Excel Calculation Services Needed on a PowerPivot for SharePoint Application Server?
Scenario: A SharePoint 2010 scale-out farm with two application servers: APP1 – Runs Excel Calculation Services (ECS) APP2 – Runs PowerPivot for SharePoint (R2 or 2010) Do you need to […]
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