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Microsoft Business Intelligence from the field
Microsoft SAP Resources
Here are some great Microsoft SAP resources SAP and SAP BW data in PowerPivot...
Date: 08/01/2012
New Office 2013 BI capabilities
Some new links to check out about what is coming from a BI perspective in Office/SharePoint 2013...
Date: 07/30/2012
Microsoft Named a Self-Service Business Intelligence Leader by Forrester Research
Forrester Research has positioned Microsoft as a leader in the "The Forrester Wave™:...
Date: 07/24/2012
Microsoft SQL Server training
Free MVA courses here https://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/colleges/sqlserver
Date: 07/19/2012
Intro to DQS
Looks like a good online training on Microsoft Data Quality Services....
Date: 07/18/2012
Demo Image XII: SQL 2012
Latest and greatest All up Microsoft BI Demo image is located here...
Date: 06/14/2012
64 bit version of the Data Mining Add-in for Excel 2010
FINALLY!!!! and updated for SQL Server 2012....
Date: 05/17/2012
SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit
This is truly excellent content. Kudos to the MS Team. Links to presos and videos below....
Date: 05/03/2012
Microsoft Business Intelligence 2012 - Single Server Install Guide
I just put this together for a customer and thought I would share it. It goes through the entire...
Date: 05/01/2012
SQL Server 2012 Product Guide
Just released a new SQL Server 2012 Product Guide ready to download.
Date: 04/12/2012
connect PowerPivot to an Oracle database
Not very well documented on how to connect PowerPivot to an Oracle database. You need the Oracle...
Date: 04/10/2012
Reporting Services 2012 and Dashboard Designer
Alot of confusion on how to integrate the new SharePoint integrated mode of Reporting Services 2012...
Date: 04/10/2012
Microsoft BI on an ipad
Microsoft has released new guidance on viewing reports and scorecards on Apple iPad devices, and a...
Date: 02/17/2012
SharePoint Summit
For those in Toronto, I will be presenting a session at the SharePoint Summit on May14-16th on...
Date: 01/27/2012
Launch BISM File (.bism) in Excel
BI semantic model connections from Excel require that you have Excel 2010 and the MSOLAP.5 OLE DB...
Date: 01/11/2012
Project Barcelona (again)
check this out for what is coming...btw, it is in CTP1 release now....
Date: 01/05/2012
DAT279 New Business Intelligence Functionality in Microsoft SQL Server Code-Named "Denali"
I am doing a session next week at our local techdays event. https://www.techdays.ca. I hope to see...
Date: 10/19/2011
Microsoft Big Data
Unlock business insights from all your structured and unstructured data, including large volumes of...
Date: 10/13/2011
PerformancePoint Services SuperFlows
It's like a help file on steroids. There are 2. IT configuration - how to configure Performance...
Date: 08/27/2011
Reporting Services 2012 SharePoint Service
There are couple of post install manual configs you need to do in order to get the reporting...
Date: 07/27/2011
SQL Denali CTP3 is out
latest and greatest denali bits....
Date: 07/12/2011
PowerPivot: DAX: Time Intelligence Functions
Useful list of time calcs for powerpivot and soon to be tabular bi models....
Date: 07/08/2011
Cascading filters in PPS
here is a little known PPS feature add for SP1 for SharePoint 2010...
Date: 06/30/2011
Twitter Analytics
A new cool FREE tool to gain valuable insight into your tweets using PowerPivot. Download it here
Date: 06/15/2011
Windows 8
i can think of a few cool BI scenarios with this new UI [View:https://youtu.be/p92QfWOw88I]
Date: 06/03/2011
Business Intelligence with Cloud Data
This walkthrough discusses how businesses can take business intelligence to the cloud with SQL...
Date: 05/25/2011
Fuzzy Lookup Add-in for Microsoft Excel 2010
New Project from MS Labs. Takes the fuzzy lookup functionality out of SSIS and puts into Excel 2010....
Date: 05/06/2011
Project Barcelona
Another cool project starting up at Microsoft. Looks interesting. Find out more here...
Date: 04/27/2011
Use PowerPivot To Analyze Your Outlook Calendar
Calendar Analytics is a FREE time management application that pulls information from Exchange and...
Date: 04/27/2011
SharePoint Diagnostics Studio
The SharePoint Diagnostics Studio available in the SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit v2.0,...
Date: 04/25/2011
How to build dashboards using PerformancePoint Services 2010
Here are some free PPS training videos to get up to speed on how to build dashboards using...
Date: 04/05/2011
SSAS Benchmark
Found a nice benchmark doc from Unisys. It is SQL Server 2005 however but still very good....
Date: 03/17/2011
PowerPivot models as a datasource for Report Builder and PPS
PowerPivot models, aka xlsx files can be used as datasources for report builder reports, also...
Date: 03/11/2011
New MSDN Blog
I started a new blog over at msdn and will post there https://blogs.msdn.com/howardm/
Date: 03/01/2011
Welcome
moving content from https://howardmorgenstern.wordpress.com
Date: 02/28/2011
SQL Server 2008 R2 Business Intelligence Training Course
SQL Server 2008 R2 Business Intelligence Training Course (a.k.a. SQLInsights), a new self-paced...
Date: 02/09/2011
PerformancePoint 2010 Content Deployment Tool
It’s a command-line tool that allows you to deploy PerformancePoint content using an existing...
Date: 02/09/2011
New Gartner BI Quad
We actually passed Oracle. Shows our message and capabilities are getting through to customers. Here...
Date: 01/31/2011
SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=fffaad6a-0153-4d41-b2...
Date: 01/21/2011
MS BI End User Training
Make Better Business Decisions with this FREE course....
Date: 01/20/2011
The new HP Business Decision Appliance
The new HP Business Decision Appliance comes with the complete Microsoft BI stack including Windows...
Date: 01/18/2011
PerformancePoint 2010 and PowerPivot
All you need to know…....
Date: 01/18/2011
New PowerPivot build
integrates into the Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket Download here
Date: 12/15/2010
Visio Forward Engineer
Came across a cool add in to Visio to model and create databases....
Date: 12/15/2010
PowerPivot Training
Roadmap to Creating PowerPivot Workbooks in Excel:...
Date: 11/30/2010