I was reading my boss’s blog post yesterday about the CNN Money charts that include a red or green stripe to indicate if the market has gone up or down over each monthly period. I wanted to recreate the graph, but knew Silverlight would be a time-consuming process, and would require quite a bit...
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Microsoft Business Intelligence Blog
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Kyle Schadt
on Thu, Jul 29 2010
Filed under: Excel, Reporting, Analytics, Article, UI/UX, Visualization, Business Intelligence, PowerPivot, Infographics, Economics, Education
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...
I’m excited to be at the Microsoft Global Accounts Summit in Vancouver Canada this week. Microsoft invites their top 100 global customers to this event. I worked with Bruno Aziza on creating the only demo to be shown at the summit. It is of course business intelligence related but includes...
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:...
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. ...
Check it out, pretty good stuff. http://powerpivotpro.com/
If you haven’t seen it already, check out the new Microsoft PowerPivot blog PowerPivot for Excel is a data analysis tool that delivers unmatched computational power directly within the application users already know and love — Microsoft Excel. Leveraging familiar Excel features, users can transform...