Posted by Russell on July - 11 - 2010
(This refers to MOSS 2010 and PPS V2) Today I needed to make an internal PPS demo available via the internet, so some alternate access mapping within SharePoint was in order. I added an AAM entry for my default web site, essentially converting http://foo into http://demoname.domain.com inside MOSS. When I fired up the dashboard via http://demoname.domain.com, my analytical grids/charts, scorecards and filters worked correctly. However, the PPS reports which are [ Read More ]
Posted by Russell on June - 30 - 2010
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
Posted by Russell on June - 29 - 2010
It’s official! The Silverlight Pivot control is now available to the general public. Download now! http://www.silverlight.net/learn/pivotviewer/
Posted by Russell on June - 16 - 2010
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
Posted by Russell on June - 2 - 2010
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
Posted by Russell on February - 5 - 2010
You heard it here first! (?) The next major release of the All-up Virtual Machine for Business Intelligence will be made available to Microsoft Partners in the near future (No, no word on whether the general public will be able to get their ha
Posted by Russell on January - 30 - 2010
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,
Posted by Russell on January - 30 - 2010
There are reports that the SSAS archive out on http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=868662dc-187a-4a85-b611-b7df7dc909fc is corrupt….”damaged, truncated, or has been changed”, to exact
To open it, simpl
Posted by Russell on January - 27 - 2010
For those of you who attended SQL PASS or other recent Microsoft-related technical conferences, you may have seen our new BI “Contoso” demo. Well, the data that powers it has now been made available for download. You’ll find both an OLTP DW and an OL
Posted by Russell on January - 23 - 2010
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