It appears that Satya Nadella has added an additional layer of context to the already ambitious Microsoft strategy of transforming itself into a "devices and services" company by declaring that "Going forward, it's a mobile-first, cloud-first world". I believe that it is safe to assume that in the near future, the roadmap of every Microsoft … Continue reading Microsoft self-service BI on premise vs cloud
Author: Business Intelligist
Running Windows 8.1 on MacBook Pro 15 with Retina display
No, there is no mistakes here, my new official working machine is now a MacBook Pro 15 with Retina display running Microsoft Windows 8.1. I am very surprised myself with myself, but at this point, I totally understand why Microsoft decided to do what it did with its own line of hardware devices because offerings … Continue reading Running Windows 8.1 on MacBook Pro 15 with Retina display
Getting back in the game…
I have not been posting much on the site in the last few months. This lack of activity was attributed to predominantly two things: A) My summer got really busy with my primary revenue generating activities and B) There was really not whole lot going on in the MS BI space that I felt I … Continue reading Getting back in the game…
A quick rant on Power BI, #confused….
There are now scores of blogs and web articles available that do a great job of introducing Power BI (a good example can be found here) so there is little value in re-hashing it in this post. I do, however, want to reflect and pontificate a bit on this announcement. The most important piece of … Continue reading A quick rant on Power BI, #confused….
PowerView can now connect to multidimensional models
The cumulative update 4 for the SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 has now been released. This update enables PowerView to connect to Multidimensional models and also to have global filters across multiple views (pages) in a PowerView report. Please follow this link for more details http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlrsteamblog/archive/2013/05/31/power-view-for-multidimensional-models-released.aspx
Modeling financial scenarios tutorial available from Microsoft
Kasper de Jonge has recently posted a PowerPivot model, Access database with some financial data and a white paper that provides what I think is the absolutely best way to jump start a BI initiative focused on implementing financial metrics and KPIs. Please find the overview and the download link here. This is an absolute … Continue reading Modeling financial scenarios tutorial available from Microsoft
Kerberos Configuration Manager for SQL Server
Anybody who has had to worry about implementing security in a SharePoint environment has at some point run into challenges with impersonating end users and passing their credentials all the way to the analysis services cube for authorization. The dreaded two hop challenges necessitated having to implement Kerberos authentication which has caused a lot of … Continue reading Kerberos Configuration Manager for SQL Server
Unpivot data using Microsoft Data Explorer
I have been really impressed with Microsoft Data Explorer the minute I had a chance to play with it as I was able to turn formatted Excel reports into legitimate data sources available for analysis. Fairly recently, an update to the tool delivered an uber critical feature that makes a huge impact on the world … Continue reading Unpivot data using Microsoft Data Explorer
GeoFlow is going public
The public preview of GeoFlow is now available here http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/download-geoflow-for-excel-FX104036784.aspx I would definitely grab the "Data Explorer" plug in while I were there...(also available here http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/download-data-explorer-for-excel-FX104018616.aspx) There are plenty of reviews and good tutorials of both products available elsewhere, but in the coming few days I will try to write about where I think these … Continue reading GeoFlow is going public
PowerPivot File Size Limit in Excel 2013
This is more of a note to self as I am constantly self-confusing myself with how much data can be loaded into a PowerPivot model. Basically, there are two things to consider, version of office one is running and whether a SharePoint deployment option is required. First, whether one is running a 32 or a 64 … Continue reading PowerPivot File Size Limit in Excel 2013
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