Linking over to a good article on PowerPivot and Analysis Services As Microsoft PowerPivot is gaining more popularity and exposure, BI professionals ask more and more questions about PowerPivot’s role in the organization in trying to understand what value the new in-memory BI solution from Microsoft...
A good colleague of mine over at Microsoft, Bruno Aziza , gave me a call on a Sunday night to discuss Extended Results partnering with Microsoft on the development of a World Cup Social Media Analytics web page. Bruno chose us because we have technologies to capture the social conversation...
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We are in the process of creating a Retail Business Intelligence Experience for a customer as you can see from below. We take a very HIGH END approach to the experience and graphics when dealing with business intelligence data. Below you will see a 3D layout of a store footprint. Then...
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We have been doing a lot of work on pulling social media data into the enterprise and using it against our traditional data warehouses to find some new insights. It can be quite interesting to pull twitter traffic on a product and tying that to retail sales and seeing the correlation between the...
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Joe is making sure our HP Touchsmart is smart enough to handle all our tough business intelligence questions tomorrow. Stop by and sell hello and pick up some free give aways.
We will have a booth at the SQL Pass Event next week. Please stop by our booth #505 which is across of SQL Magazine and IBM and introduce yourself and pick up some gratuitous swag! We will be showing all our new business intelligence solutions like PushBI Desktop and Mobile, Extended Outlook...
Saw a demo of DATAllegro in the Keynote. I was VERY impressed with that they demostrated and really look forward to the internal releases of the software so we can use it on some Microsoft projects. It will not be available until 1st Quarter of 2010! Long time to wait... I was very impressed with the...
The Microsoft SQL VP demostrated some exciting new features of the next version of SQL Server that will be coming in 2010! Self Server BI tool coming in 2010 available as a plug-in for Excel
If you want to get ProClarity working with SQL Server 2008, you need the following hotfixes http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=6&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3ddc9cbe69-1db1-4f5d-9b48-06b156c0f2c6%26DisplayLang...
Next week you should have access to CTP2 if you are interested. Well, to prep you for some requirements when it is available, make sure you apply SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 in the next few days. It is a 282meg download and is required before you install CTP2. Happy downloading! Patrick
Microsoft has released a significant update for its widely used SQL Server database software. The company on Monday announced the general availability of SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 -- which contains a number of key enhancements to the software, including full Windows Vista and Office 2007 compatibility...
This is a bit of useful information if you have to set this up on your server. Install Reporting Services SP2 Web Parts on SharePoint I just installed the Reporting Services SP2 beta on my dev-test machine. I had to search into beta newsgroups how to install SharePoint Web Parts onto my SharePoint Services...