As heard from a senior Microsoft executive, the highly anticipated beta of the product is expected to be released mid to late July.
Category: Office
Bubble Charts in Excel and Excel Services
Creating Bubble Charts is one of the biggest challenges in Excel and Excel Services with respect to data visualization. Microsoft made it very intuitive in PowerView and very not intuitive in Excel. Frankly, the way this functionality is implemented in Excel makes it practically unusable. Rumor has it that this area is getting a lot … Continue reading Bubble Charts in Excel and Excel Services
Improving performance of Excel reports against Analysis Services
I will start this post with a bit of a rant. There are two types of people in the Business Intelligence world: Those who do not like Excel Those who do Most of the right-click-hating low tech users belong to the first category (they are also usually the same people who like bubble gum and … Continue reading Improving performance of Excel reports against Analysis Services
PowerView in Windows 8 Release Preview
I was eagerly awaiting the new Release Preview of Windows 8 as I was hoping it would address some of the shortcomings with respect to the Microsoft BI Stack and Windows 8 that I blogged about before. One of the new features introduced in to the IE 10 was Flash support. I have not read … Continue reading PowerView in Windows 8 Release Preview
Office 15 beta
Looks like we only have a month or two before the next version of Microsoft Office (commonly known as Office 15) becomes available for beta testing. Not surprising, SharePoint, Visio and Project will be released in a beta form around the same time.
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