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.
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…
It looks like the gold version of IE9 will still break PowerPivot’s ability to generate snapshots.
Yesterday, a machine which had been happily creating PowerPivot snapshots for me stopped doing so. If I had taken the time to search on keywords like “PowerPivot”, “snapshot”, and “IE9”, I would have landed on Gavin’s blog and saved mys
I love PowerPivot. And I really, really love the visualization in the management dashboard that allows one to see which reports are active across time. I’ve thought to myself many a time, “Self, I sure like that visualization. I wish I could show
Today I installed the BI Indexing Connector for the first time (neat stuff!) and pretty quickly saw a change in the way the PowerPivot gallery renders Reporting Services reports. When installing the backend component of the connector, you are inst
Over on the Forrester Blog, Boris Evelson has written an interesting post about the real cost of creating a single BI report in the enterprise. He estimates a price tag of between $1,840 and $20K per report after one factors in expenditures on softwa
Over the week-end I was doing some analysis on SQL Server disk usage, and wanted to be able to display current disk usage by database. Up to this point, I’d mainly been doing a SUM over my measures. Well, that would make no sense in this scenario -
