I have been playing around with the newly released Office 2013. I cannot seem to find that many tangible Business Intelligence features in it, other than the PowerView feature that is now available in Excel. This feature has been flaky at best; I am getting all kinds of errors trying to build some visualizations against … Continue reading PowerView in Excel 2013
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How to add images or logos to a PowerView dashboard
One of the strange functionality gaps in PowerView is lack of support of images. In other words, one can easily add a text box to the dashboard, but unfortunately there is no easy way to add a company logo to the dashboard, which means that yet again we have to resort to a work around. This … Continue reading How to add images or logos to a PowerView dashboard
Scorecards in PowerView
Scorecards are not natively supported in PowerView, which is very unfortunate to say the least.. Fortunately there is a work around. Since I am writing this on a plane, I will just provide a high level description of how to get it done... First, one needs to implement add a calculated column that will have … Continue reading Scorecards in PowerView
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
PowerView in Office 365
One of the big frastrations with Office 365 was its limited support (trying to stay positive here) of some of the key SharePoint features, such as, for example, Microsoft Business Intelligence stack. Even though the current iteration does support PowerPivot and Excel Services. Rumor has it PowerView will be supported in Office 365 starting June, … Continue reading PowerView in Office 365
HTML5 support for PowerView and the rest of the Microsoft BI stack
Had a long conversation with a senior Microsoft executive few days ago. It appears that HTML5 support for PowerView will be released with the Service Pack 1 for SQL Server 2012 by the end of this calendar year. A little too late for my taste, but I will take what I can get. My prognostication is … Continue reading HTML5 support for PowerView and the rest of the Microsoft BI stack
More on Powerview on my Windows 8 Tablet
I have finally figured out how to exit the Full Screen mode on a tablet. Normally, one would need to hit Escape to exit into the reading or editing modes. Since there are no Esc key on the soft keyboard, it was always a challenge for me to exit out. Yesterday, I finally found something … Continue reading More on Powerview on my Windows 8 Tablet
PowerView on Google Chrome
I just noticed that Chrome is not listed as a supported browser for PowerView and in fact somebody already filed it as an issue on the connect site here http://bit.ly/IYwdfx. I normally use Internet Explorer for everything work related, but I also use Chrome a lot for email and also Google Music service (not that it would not run … Continue reading PowerView on Google Chrome
Choosing a Tabular or Multidimensional model in SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services
Many great discussions are taking place about the future of the Multidimensional mode for the Analysis Services. It is very clear where the majority of the investment went for the 2012 version (hint... think rows and columns and not multidimensional). At the same time, one might argue that the traditional or Multidimensional set of features is already … Continue reading Choosing a Tabular or Multidimensional model in SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services
SharePoint on iPad
Microsoft has recently released a Cumulative Update 2011-12 for Microsoft SharePoint that enables consuming Microsoft BI data visualizations on Apple iPad running iOS 5 Safari browser. Not all visualizations are supported: Visualization Type Renders on iPad Dashboards (filters, linked elements) YES Excel Services (including PPS webpart) YES Reporting Services (including PPS webpart) NO PerformancePoint ScoreCards YES … Continue reading SharePoint on iPad
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