Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 is now available as a community technology preview. The two most expected features so far are the SharePoint 2013 support for the new BI features and the HTML5 support for PowerView. Well, the rumor has it that the HTML5 support is NOT going to make it in this service pack. I … Continue reading No HTML5 support is now expected in the 2012 SP1
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Excel 2013 – Business Intelligence – First impressions
I have been playing with the new excel for a few weeks now and I think I have finally enough material to share. In general the first impressions can be bucketed in three distinct set of emotions: Wow - a lot of new cool stuff coming out. It is becoming painfully clear that the PerformancePoint … Continue reading Excel 2013 – Business Intelligence – First impressions
More on new features of PowerView in Excel 2013
I started the list of changes here, at some point I will consolidate everything into a single nice master list, but for now I will just keep posing all the new things that I find in individual posts. So, a few other new features: Ability to drill on not only Matrix controls but also charts … Continue reading More on new features of PowerView in Excel 2013
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
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
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