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A consultant that I know has recently been through the process of reviewing his company's management information requirements, and also the process of evaluating what technology platform can deliver those requirements. Naturally, a data warehouse...
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MDM tools give the control of the enterprise master data over to the data stewards and power users, rather than relying on automated data integration alone. Master Data Services is no exception to the above. One of the ways that this is true for MDS is...
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Great free resource for pretty much every shapefile map you’ll need :) Shapefiles for Epi Info Plug them into your SSRS Map and off you go.
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In my last post I had a bit of a moan about the lack of new data visualisation features in PerformancePoint Services but to be fair MSFT have really turned up the dial on the data visualisation functionality with the release of Excel 2007 and SSRS 2008...
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Following last week's release of the November CTP for SQL Server 2008 R2, the latest CTP for PowerPivot is now also released! The links for the downloads are: 32 Bit PowerPivot Download 64 Bit PowerPivot Download PowerPivot Main Download Page Included...
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Frustrating little quirk when building reports in SSRS 2008 using Visual Studio 2008. If you write a custom query against a parameter dataset, and then change a query that references the parameter, the custom query used by the parameter is overwritten...
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I've been keeping an eye on the SQL Server 2008 R2 CTPs over the past few months, but have been compelled to start blogging again following the release of Master Data Services (MDS) in the November CTP. The idea of a Microsoft MDM tool first caught...
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We’ve been lucky enough (or we rather hassled enough people in MSFT for long enough!) to have been participating in the Office 2010 technical preview for the last couple of months but as it’s all been under NDA haven’t been able to blog about it. ...
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There are already a few good Gemini/PowerPivot blogs that provide an introduction into what it is and does so there is no need for repetition. What I haven’t seen are examples of how existing investments can be harnessed for Gemini/PowerPivot based...
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First post for months; the PerformancePoint Planning announcement forced some redirection and rebuilding. We’ve grieved, we’ve moaned, but at some point, you just have to move on. ----------------- I’m not a fan of hacks – it normally means you...
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This is a great post from Boyan Penev which I’m sure will be familiar to many of you who design reports for customers. Sometimes you just have to give them what they want even when it goes against what you believe :(
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Update: Nick Barclay has made some nice tweaks to the sample here As I’ve mentioned before , we always try and design reports, dashboards and charts for our customers taking into consideration data visualisation best practices as promoted by Stephen Few...
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Obviously when we get a new development machine, we install the latest Microsoft software in order to test the latest applications. All in all Windows Server 2008 R2, is basically the server version on Windows 7, therefore it shares many drivers...
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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...