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A Great ROI Story by Enhancing Microsoft Excel with Extended Excel

We have a customer where we went in an analyzed their spreadsheet overload their analyst were experiencing. The analyst were spending 65 minutes a day looking for information in their email, my documents, file share and SharePoint for spreadsheets...

Published Mon, Apr 26 2010 5:02 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Microsoft, Excel, Tips, Business Intelligence
The BLOG is BACK!

Well, my ISP decided a couple weeks ago to migrate the server that our blog was on to a new hosting platform. Well, we all know what will happen, right?! Yep, we went offline for over 10 days. Kills me! The ISP was absolutely...

Published Mon, Mar 1 2010 3:48 PM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Tips
Excel: OLAP PivotTable Extensions Add-in

This is a pretty neat add-in that allows you to enhance your PivotTables when working against OLAP cubes. OLAP PivotTable Extensions is an Excel 2007 add-in which extends the functionality of PivotTables on Analysis Services cubes. The Excel 2007 API...

Published Mon, Jan 4 2010 6:00 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Microsoft, Excel, Tips, Add-In
Do collaboration tools really increase employee productivity?

Just read this article about collaboration and time lost. They say a person looses over $3,300 a year looking for information. That is probably about right. Our solution Extended Outlook and Extended Excel retrieves a large portion...

Published Wed, Dec 30 2009 8:04 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Blogging, SharePoint, Excel, Tips, Article, Outlook, BLOG
Better looking charts in Excel 2007/2010

One thing I really like about using Excel for my business intelligence solution is the ability to create some really good looking charts (author opinion). We are all guilty of just cranking out reports using the default settings as we are...

Published Tue, Dec 29 2009 8:50 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Microsoft, Excel, Tips, Analytics, Article, Visualization, Business Intelligence
Extended Results on Twitter

I didnâ€™t even know we had a Twitter account, but we do! Check it out. Looks like Joey and Bruno are pretty active on it. http://twitter.com/extendedresults

Published Thu, Dec 24 2009 5:12 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Tips
Great BI on TV

Iâ€™m on Jury Duty today so Iâ€™m basically watching TV all dayâ€¦ Check out this BI. Love it!

Published Tue, Dec 22 2009 10:47 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Tips, Analytics, Video, Infographics, Dashboards
PowerPivot Resources

Lotâ€™s of great resources on the web. 1. www.powerpivot.com : Official Microsoft Site 2. http://powerpivotpro.com/ : Rob Collie's site, lead program manager for Gemini, oops I mean PowerPivot 3. http://powerpivot-info.com/ : Microsoft...

Published Mon, Dec 21 2009 4:04 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Microsoft, Tips, Business Intelligence, PowerPivot, BLOG
Untapped-Insights Launch in BusinessWire

I wanted to make sure you had picked up the announce in the press on Extended Results hosting a BI radio show starting in January here . I'm very excited about the show and would encourage all of you to tweet and blog about it. Think of the...

Published Thu, Dec 17 2009 3:05 PM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Microsoft, Tips, Article, Business Intelligence, BLOG
Search Engine Market Share in Excel 14 and Excel Services

We are really buying into the fact that a lot of our business reporting will be going back to Excel in the next version of Office 2010. There are just a ton of new features in Excel 2010, SharePoint 2010 (with PPS) and Excel Services, PowerPivot...

Published Wed, Dec 16 2009 4:31 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Microsoft, Excel, Tips, Office 14
ClimateGate: They are trying to blame it on Clippy

Was just to good to pass up. Donâ€™t know if you have been following how the climate researchers have fudging the numbers, but someone made up this little cartoon that was just to good to pass up.

Published Sat, Dec 12 2009 4:44 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Tips, Analytics
Great looking Pie Chart: The American Diet: 34 Gigabytes a Day

It is not to often you can find a good looking pie-chart, but here is a great example from the New York times. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/09/the-american-diet-34-gigabytes-a-day/

Published Thu, Dec 10 2009 4:54 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Tips, Article, UI/UX, Business Intelligence, Infographics
Great use and showcase of UI/UX in business intelligence

Bryan in our office forwarded me this web site that shows political contributions by industry/company. Check it out, presented very clearly and easy to understand. Roll over a company name to see a break out of their lobbyist efforts. http...

Published Mon, Dec 7 2009 3:30 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Tips, Analytics, Article, Business Intelligence, Infographics
Untapped-Insights Webinars

We are doing a whole bunch of webinars with Bruno Aziza and Joey Fitts on Driving Business Performance: Enabling a Culture of Intelligence Execution. Visit the following link to sign up for the webinars. Weâ€™ll also be doing some...

Published Sun, Dec 6 2009 4:02 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Blogging, Microsoft, Tips, Article, Conference, Business Intelligence, Webinar
Cost of Employees Searching for Information

Research studies from IDC, Gartner and other firms show that the cost of your employees spending 20% of their time searching for information can be valued at more than $500,000 per 50 employees. And that doesnâ€™t count the cost of your employees using...

Published Fri, Dec 4 2009 4:00 AM by Patrick Husting

Filed under: Microsoft, Excel, Tips, Extended Analytics

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