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I don’t know about you, but all the so called “DASHBOARD” solutions I have been seeing the last several years are really not well designed. What happened to the creative minded people? We have been very busy working on a new retail business intelligence portal leveraging a lot of different...
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Patrick Husting
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Thu, May 6 2010
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Filed under: PerformancePoint Server, Database, Microsoft, SharePoint, Excel, UI/UX, Visualization, Office 14, Business Intelligence, Infographics, C#
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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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Another video on how to add SparkLines to your spreadsheets in Excel 2010. But we need better music in the video guys!
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One of my business intelligence development managers came in the office to do a walk through of his project. We are embracing Excel Services quite heavily now and he showed me an example within our Extended Outlook product. The below report is showing country comparisons side...
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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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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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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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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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Now I just need to find a super computer to use… At a key supercomputing conference on Monday, Microsoft released a test version of its Excel spreadsheet redesigned to run on powerful clusters of servers. By engineering Excel to run better on such clusters Microsoft said that customers are seeing spreadsheets...
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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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I’m pretty excited to be traveling to New York this week to present at the Microsoft offices to several media and entertainment companies. We are going to be co-presenting with Microsoft on “Personalized Business Intelligence†and showing many of the recent products we have developed over...
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Microsoft Business Intelligence Blog
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Patrick Husting
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Thu, Oct 8 2009
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Filed under: Microsoft, Office 12, Excel, Dasbboards, Marketing, Performance Management, Analytics, Screenshots, Conference, Extended Analytics, PushBI, Scenario, Visualization, Mobile, Office 14
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I’m going to be traveling to 5 cities (New York, Kansas City, Dallas, Denver and Chicago) with the Microsoft Communications Sector group that focuses on Telecommunications and Media and Entertainment companies. I will be doing sessions on Personalized Business Intelligence on the Microsoft platform...
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I have been reading up on the Office 14 features and I think the new browser based Excel opens some interesting business intelligence opportunities. it looks very much like Excel Services in SharePoint but you can actually edit the cells. I'm hoping the rendering of the charts look like they do in Excel...