Microsoft just released the Microsoft Analytics add-in for Twitter, and I gotta say that I’m pretty excited. It utilizes PowerPivot to allow for some really interesting and highly configurable data exploration and reporting against Twitter data. Here’s a quick overview of the tool.
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…
It looks like the gold version of IE9 will still break PowerPivot’s ability to generate snapshots.
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 had a bear of a time getting SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP’s Integrated PowerPivot feature installed. It looks like several other people in the Twitter/Blogosphere are running into the same issue, but for potentially different reasons. For m
I was in an inflammatory mood at the beginning of the week and tweeted the following at #sqlpass: DBAs don’t like it, but Excel IS the database for many. This hasn’t and won’t change. Manage to this reality. The
