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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 and data critical to the business. We reviewed...
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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 no help in resolving the issues they caused. ...
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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 has certain PivotTable functionality which is not...
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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 of that lost ROI and we have proven it several...
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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 just trying to get the job done, but if you spend...
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I didn’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
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I’m on Jury Duty today so I’m basically watching TV all day… Check out this BI. Love it!
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Lot’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 MVP Vidas Matelis's community site 4. http:...
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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 show as show creates a forum for participation...
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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, etc. coming and I’ll try and expend some blog...
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Was just to good to pass up. Don’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.
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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/
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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://www.goodguide.com/contributions#sector=Computer...
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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. We’ll also be doing some customer workshops on business intelligence enabling...
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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 doesn’t count the cost of your employees using the wrong information, which 42% reported having...
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One of the features in PivotTables we always wanted was the ability to throw in a measure in the middle of it. You really couldn’t do that unless you converted it to cube functions, but then you lost some of the drag and drop features. I’m watching a LiveMeeting on DAX formulas. ...
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Check out the following very useful utility: http://www.codeplex.com/OlapPivotTableExtend OLAP PivotTable Extensions is an Excel 2007 add-in which extends the functionality of PivotTables on Analysis Services cubes. The Excel 2007 API has certain PivotTable functionality which is not exposed in...
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For years we have been told to buy all these analytic tools, build these great dashboards, deploy them to a big servers and just tell your end users to go up to the server and get what they need to run their businesses. I’ve been deploying a lot of these solutions for years and I just keep...
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A really good friend of my in Barnaul Russia has just released a really good SilverLight control for showing Reporting Services reports through the browser. Why? Because you can and also provides a high level of interactivity that you just can’t get through ASP.NET. I...
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Hello, my name is Bryan Colyer, I will be periodically sharing my thoughts and observations on personalized business intelligence here in the blog. Budget cuts, layoffs, slow growth, and don’t even think about missing a day of work, vacation, or calling in sick, it’s all hands on deck and...