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Whitepaper: Which Microsoft Business Intelligence tool to use and why

Russell — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:01:19 +0000

On his blog, Pej Javaheri (Microsoft BI PM) pointed to a new whitepaper which you can download here.

It’s titled “How to Choose the Right Business Intelligence Technology to Suit Your Style” and does a really good job of delineating different “styles” of BI, and then matching up the appropriate Microsoft BI tools to each style.

Since Microsoft has several tools that can build reports & dashboards, and they each have some overlapping functionality, it’s not uncommon for customers to ask:

“Which Microsoft BI tool should I use?”

Well, this relatively short whitepaper addresses that question quite nicely. BI professionals won’t see much here they don’t already know, but it’s a well organized write-up and is something I’m grateful for. I suspect I’ll be leaving this document with customers on a regular basis!

CTP2 of PivotViewer Extension for Reporting Services Available Yesterday

Russell — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:23:24 +0000

I'm slow, missing the announcment of this release by days and days. http://bit.ly/aHk5sM

Re-creating the PowerPivot Management Dashboard’s “Sliding Bubble Chart”

Russell — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:41:36 +0000

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

Creating Pivot collections via Reporting Services & SQL Analysis Services: Challenges and Solutions!

Russell — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:35:32 +0000

While watching the keynote from the recent BI Conference, I saw a demo of the Pivotviewer Extensions for Reporting Services. This is an interesting tool that will help automate creating Pivot collections. Unfortunately, even as an Microsoft FTE I can

Can’t find ReportExecutionService?

Russell — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:31:37 +0000

Proof positive you need to keep writing code or your skills atrophy. This morning I needed to write some simple code to render an SSRS report as an image using the SSRS Web Services.... In VS, I added a Service Reference to ReportExecution2005.asm

Business Intelligence Indexing Connector “breaks” PowerPivot Gallery on “All in One” machine

Russell — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:21:16 +0000

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

SQL Server Reporting Services Reports in the PowerPivot Gallery

Russell — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:56:06 +0000

Yes, it is totally possible to publish a SSRS report into your PowerPivot Gallery - In fact, the gallery invites you to do so with the "New Report Builder Report" item in the PowerPivot gallery's silverlight application. But as my buddy George O

Failed attempt to install KB967723 breaks Excel Services, SSRS Integration, RSS Feeds

Russell — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:24:50 +0000

Last week I was in a bit of a panic when Excel Services and SQL Reporting Services (MOSS Integrated) broke on nearly all of my "demo" Hyper-V images.

I could publish to Excel Services, but attempting to render caused this exception to get

Click Once Report Builder 2.0 now in SQL Server 2008 SP1 CTP

Russell — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:41:45 +0000

If you've been waiting for the Click Once version of Report Builder 2.0, your wait is over (as long as you don't mind using non-RTM bits). The SP1 CTP will allow you to launch RB 1.0 or 2.0 as Click Once applications in both Native and MOSS integr

SQL 2008 Cumulative Update 1 – Something nice for SQL Reporting Lovers

Russell — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:42:56 +0000

SQL Server 2008 Cumulative Update 1 was released a few weeks ago, and contains a very nice (but not promoted) improvement around PDF rendering. For those who regularly render reports which require specific fonts and character sets (for example, tr