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As Mark mentions , the one and only Sutha Thiru is climbing Kilimanjaro later this year to raise money for a very good cause - The Iain Rennie Hospice looked after our colleague Jim Wright who sadly died after on Xmas eve last year. Sutha is also paying...
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Interesting to see yesterday that XLCubed have released version 5 of their popular OLAP reporting tool. As I've mentioned before , I've always found XLCubed to be very powerful and easy to use, and therefore, in my opinion, it's definitely...
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One of our customers had read Nick Barclay's post on dynamic sets in SSAS 2008 and was hoping that this would mean that you could create KPI's with dynamic dimension members. Well the answer is yes and no. It's already possible...
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As I mentioned previously , SSRS 2008 allows us to use some nice visualisation techniques in our reports. Win\Loss graphs are used to show (wait for it......) the trend of wins and losses over time. The usual example is the performance of...
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So as the dust settles and everyone calms down, it's time to move on and get back to what we're good at! Just in case anyone was worried, we'll continue to be at the cutting edge of PerformancePoint Services and the MS BI stack as well as...
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It's nearly a week since the announcement that shook the (PPS) world ! It's been a bit difficult to report on; generally the Adatis blogs try and offer solutions to problems we have encountered out in the real-world. Now I could say...
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Unlike SSRS 2005 where creating bullet graph takes a bit of jiggery-pokery , Reporting Services 2008 almost has them built-in (thanks the the acquisition of Dundas technology). I say almost as it's actually using a linear gauge object which...
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Following on from my previous post prior to Christmas – it looks like I have been beaten to it. For a pure installation of SQL 2008 and PPS have a look here , it details the installation process to ensure a smooth installation. ...
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I was struggling to write this post without too much trumpet blowing, but luckily Matt has done that for us! I'm very pleased to announce that both Sacha and myself have both been awarded Microsoft MVP for 2009. Whilst this is somewhat surprising...
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...if you're a SQL geek (like we are) http://www.microsoft.com/sql/experience/Fun.aspx?loc=en Happy New Year to you all :)
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Well, given the break over Christmas I have finally managed to get round to some testing. This has begun with getting PPS SP2 set up on our development environment, running solely on SQL Server 2008 and Windows 2008. To test it fully I have removed...
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Recently a colleague of mine needed to access Oracle to build a report but did not have the rights to create a stored procedure, which would be the obvious method of choice. We therefore need to pass parameters from Reporting Services to Oracle using...
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I've noticed that the PPS Technet documentation has been updated recently to include an official Microsoft method to carry out auditing in PPS Planning. PPS will do some basic auditing out of the box, namely to the audit.log file on the server. This...
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Jeremy has already announced the release of PerformancePoint Server SP2 and it's great to see that the PPS dev team hit their target release date ! I've spent a little commute time this morning checking out the documentation, admittedly...
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PerformancePoint Service Pack 2 is now out and available for download! As usual it's available in 32 or 64 bit versions: 32 bit PerformancePoint SP2 64 bit PerformancePoint SP2 I've also noticed that there is a new service pack for Management...