PerformancePoint Blog

A Blog about PerformancePoint and Microsoft BI technologies. Your host is Russell Christopher

After 14 years, turning in my blue badge.

Posted by Russell on June - 29 - 2011
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Russell waxes poetic about his work at Microsoft and new opportunities at Tableau Software

The Microsoft Analytics PowerPivot Add-in for Twitter

Posted by Russell on June - 10 - 2011
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Microsoft just released the Microsoft Analytics add-in for Twitter, and I gotta say that I’m pretty excited. It utilizes PowerPivot to allow for some really interesting and highly configurable data exploration and reporting against Twitter data. Here’s a quick overview of the tool.

PowerPivot on the iPad: Best Practices

Posted by Russell on May - 9 - 2011
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Mobile BI is getting hotter and hotter by the second. If you’re interested in a little bit of “out of the box Mobile BI” and don’t want to buy 3rd party products, you can view your published Excel Services & PowerPivot workbooks on the iPad. Here’s how…

IE9 and PowerPivot Snapshot Generation Still Don’t Mix.

Posted by Russell on March - 15 - 2011
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It looks like the gold version of IE9 will still break PowerPivot’s ability to generate snapshots.

Visualizing Microsoft Market Basket Analysis with Tableau

Posted by Russell on February - 24 - 2011
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In this post we explore different ways you can use Tableau to explore the output of the Microsoft Association Rules algorithm.

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BlueGranite recently released a free business intelligence application Windows Phone 7. In this post I’ll take it for a test drive and create my own dashboard

The Microsoft Clustering Algorithm, Tableau, and More Cowbell

Posted by Russell on February - 13 - 2011
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Using Tableau to visualize the output of the Microsoft Clustering algorithm…More cowbell.

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I’m constantly amazed that such a small portion of people who own SQL Server are using the fantastic data mining capabilities they have access to. One thing that has occurred to me as a potential bump in the road towards wider adoption is visualization. Can Tableau help here?

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What does “Persisted file cannot be found” mean when you’re executing a DMX query? I didn’t know and couldn’t find anything on the internets.

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Sometimes when you right click a PerformancePoint scorecard, the context menu doesn’t appear in the right place. Here’s what to do about it.

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