As a follow-up to my work with the Time Series algorithm, I’ve been playing with the SSAS clustering algorithm over several cups of Bald Guy coffee. One will generally use the clustering algorithm to segment “things” (customers into “customer clusters”, for example) based on similarities between attributes that describe the “things” ...
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 install it from there. You can also install it ...
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 of it into QlikView, and created several dashboards. Might as well blog about the experience, ...
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 myself some time, but whatever…it was a good learning experience. When the ...
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 my OWN data inside that thing, however”. So ...
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 working right the first time. Ever! Kind souls often offer tidbits like “did you configure the trusted file location” and other nice-but-useless advice for anyone [ Read More ]
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:
OK, I was a few days off on my guesstimate….and the landing page I pointed to earlier still doesn’t have links directly to the files…but SP2 was released late yesterday afternoon and can be downloaded here (x86) and here (x64) There’s also ton
The landing page for PerformancePoint SP2 just appeared at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/performancepoint/FX102380591033.aspx. While as of yet there are no download links on the page, I think it’s safe to guess that we’ll see the distro in the ne
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
Late last week I stumbled into a really informative conversation around how 2005 reports are “automagically” upgraded to 2008. Thought I’d post the br
Yesterday, the fine folks at Microsoft added an evaluation version of PAS 6.3 to the already available ProClarity Desktop 6.3 eval. You can download it here. A few notes about this release:
With the RTM of SQL 2008, it looks like a slightly older version of the add-in has been removed from microsoft.com. Unfortunately, all of the search engines (including Live) are pointing at the old, dead page. If you search for the add-in directly
Sheesh, take a day off from reading mail and you miss the chance to blog about one of the most important products on the day it RTMs. I’m a day late and a dollar short, but SQL 2008 released yesterday. It is build 1600.22, and I see it is already
Sorry, couldn’t resist! Yesterday (or maybe it was the day before, I forget), the next rev of AllUp was released internally at Microsoft. It includes 3 new demos including a “deep dive” around PPS Planning, and new stuff for the manufacturing and
