On April 18 Power Map got updated, although if you have a Click-to-Run installed version of Office 365 Pro, you would never know it since these updates are pushed automatically. Here is a link describing the new features, other than some cosmetic updates, ability to add audio to a tour is probably one of the … Continue reading April Update for Power Map Adds Audio, Clears Confusion
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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
SAP vs. Microsoft, Information Assets vs. End User Experience positioning
If your company runs SAP, chances are the picture below represents your environment pretty well The black colors represent the existing investments/business processes and the size of the bubbles represents the effort/investment $$$. Your company has made a very large investment in the SAP back-end (ERP, BW, etc.) which is represented by a large black circle … Continue reading SAP vs. Microsoft, Information Assets vs. End User Experience positioning
SAP Visual Intelligence vs. Microsoft PowerPivot and PowerView
In this post I will review the latest version of SAP Visual Intelligence – 1.08 – and see how it stacks up against the Microsoft self-service BI tools, Excel, PowerPivot and PowerView. In the initial release, Visual Intelligence only supported SAP Hana, but in its latest iteration few other data sources are supported: CSV File … Continue reading SAP Visual Intelligence vs. Microsoft PowerPivot and PowerView
Customizing PowerView in PowerPoint
Although "customizing" may be too strong of a word, there are few things that we can tweak to improve the look and feel of PowerView slides that had just been exported from SharePoint. The first thing to do after the fresh export is to adjust the size of the exported image. For some reason as … Continue reading Customizing PowerView in PowerPoint
Microsoft BI ranks highest in ability to execute by Gartner
Microsoft once again is ranked the highest in its ability to execute by Gartner in its magic quadrant for Business Intelligence. The report is pretty long and boring, but if I were distill it down to a few salient points, I would choose the following: Companies see a dramatic improvement in BI capabilities going from … Continue reading Microsoft BI ranks highest in ability to execute by Gartner
Some comments on the CTP of the Microsoft SQL Server 2012 With PowerView For Multidimensional Models
I have had a pretty frustrating experience with it so far. I think that the only way get it to work is to have it deployed as a SSRS Service Application inside SharePoint and then configure PowerView. In other words, if you are planning to install a multidemensional instance of the CTP, install your OLAP cube … Continue reading Some comments on the CTP of the Microsoft SQL Server 2012 With PowerView For Multidimensional Models
PowerView Feature Comparisons
PowerView experience will be delivered across several Microsoft products: Excel (fat client) Excel Services (SharePoint) SharePoint – SQL Edition Office 365 PowerPoint I get a lot of questions as to what features are supported across all these deployment scenarios. Luckily Microsoft shared a slide that I will attempt to reproduce here that explains what features … Continue reading PowerView Feature Comparisons
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