Additional details are coming out on the new features that will be available in PerformancePoint 2013. Here is a list of new stuff: Themes – SharePoint has traditionally been somewhat of a challenge with respect to look and feel configuration and PerformancePoint Services was an even bigger challenge yet. Microsoft has simplified the CSS challenges … Continue reading More details on new PerformancePoint features in SharePoint 2013
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What’s new in PerformancePoint services in SharePoint 2013?
This is going to be a very short post… yup, there is almost nothing new. In fact, I did not see anything new. Deep sigh…. Now, there are some changes in PerformancePoint services according to this article, but I sincerely doubt that dashboard migration, filter enhancements and search, BI Center updates, iPad support and security … Continue reading What’s new in PerformancePoint services in SharePoint 2013?
PowerView in Excel 2013 – Business Intelligence – Second Impression
Well, the more time passes, the more I like it... Somehow I have figured out, subconsciously, how not to make it crash quite as often and also how to work around things that don't work very well. So, in no particular order, here are few more observations... Map - like it a lot. There is … Continue reading PowerView in Excel 2013 – Business Intelligence – Second Impression
PowerView in Excel 2013
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
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
How to limit values in PivotTable filters in Excel
Excel 2010 is tightly integrated with SharePoint which allows users to author their reports in Excel and then simply save them in SharePoint so that they can be subsequently rendered to everybody else as a web page using Excel Services. Unfortunately, not all features of Excel can be rendered; some of them generate warnings but … Continue reading How to limit values in PivotTable filters in Excel
SharePoint Chart Web Part
Here is a good introductory article for the SharePoint Chart Web part. I have not see this web part used that much, although, there is one feature that I think makes this data visualization vehicle critical for certain types of reporting. I am of course talking about being able to show a Sales Pipeline Funnel like this: Few pros … Continue reading SharePoint Chart Web Part
SQL Reporting on Azure goes GA, PowerView not available in cloud
Microsoft has just announced that Windows Azure SQL Reporting is Generally Available. A quick glance on the Guidelines and Limitations reveals that the released functionality is mainly based on the SQL Server 2008 R2 stack, which means that PowerView is not available in the cloud yet.
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
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