A great new whitepaper is available which explains which Microsoft Business Intelligence tool to use in different scenarios. This one is defintely worth your time.
PerformancePoint already supports the ability to add comments to KPIs which reside in a scorecard, and this is good. Let’s learn how to extend commenting with threaded discussions, shall we?
In 2010, the install point of PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer isn’t overly discoverable, but Microsoft has done a good job documenting how to get the thing loaded. Most of the time, our instructions tell you to go to a BI Center site, and in
On to dashboards! In my previous post, I touched on building out a data model in QlikView. In this post, we’ll cover using it by building “sheets” (like PerformancePoint dashboard pages or PowerPivot worksheets). I suspect I’ll get
Over the holidays, I decided to experiment with some business intelligence technology that I normally don’t have the opportunity work with – QlikTech’s QlikView. In a nutshell, I took Microsoft’s Contoso Retail sample DW, brought portions
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’m slow, missing the announcment of this release by days and days. http://bit.ly/aHk5sM
There are four big reasons I will always love ProClarity: It writes MDX for me The Decomposition tree The Heat/Performance map It writes MDX for me Since SharePoint/PerformancePoint 2010 now includes a decomp tree, I generally don
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
It’s here! It’s here! http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=d31f609d-a353-41ad-a1a4-f81456e3a6c4 PivotViewer Extension for Reporting Services is a utility that enables users to effortlessly build stunning d
