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…
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.
Noticed that Gartner’s MQ for Business Intelligence is now out there for 2010: http://www.gartner.com/technology/media-products/reprints/microsoft/vol10/article7/article7.html Compared to 2009, it appears that Microsoft (yay!), Oracle,
Looks like May! http://blogs.technet.com/dataplatforminsider/archive/2010/01/19/sql-server-2008-r2-gets-an-official-date.aspx
The title says it all! x86: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=90c596a5-aca4-4ded-9072-facf834bc0c6&displaylang=en x64: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3ad75ae5-d2cd-4953-87cf-5f74d79804c6&di
On a fairly regular basis, customers I work with wonder out loud (read: gripe) why SSAS 2005 and 2008 don’t allow them to easily drill-down to the relational tables that back a cube using an action. SSAS 2000 did this nicely, but SQL Analysis S
I’m not a big fan of this guy, but a recent guest post was a great read. The author, Eric Ries essentially argues that if metrics you’re tracking aren’t actionable, they’re “vanity metrics” and not that useful:
For the past several months, Project Real got lost out on microsoft.com – those who wanted the whitepapers and/or samples were pretty much on their own. The materials have been restored and are now available at: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/bi/
I don’t know what my mental block around Excel Services is all about – but configuring it just kills me. After building more Hyper-V and VS images which include Excel Services than I care to count, I still have not managed to get data refresh workin
Thanks to some of the fine product managers at Microsoft, the All Up Release 7.1 is now available for public download. It is made up of 7 RAR files, each about 700 MB:
