As you might know, I wrote three books about LINQ with Paolo Pialorsi. He’s an expert in SharePoint development and after one year of tough writing it is finally available its Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Developer Reference book. If you want…  Read more

I just installed a brand new server (well, a virtual machine) with SharePoint 2010 SP1 and SQL Server 2012 RC0, including PowerPivot and Reporting Services / Power View. The server is joined to the domain I use in our development…  Read more

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 installation: to do that, you need to start a command like:…  Read more

I just exited from the SharePoint 2007 odissey to correctly configure settings to get updates from Analysis Services 2005 cubes. The big problem is the Microsoft Single Sign-On service, that is the single component who really make the data connection…  Read more

I know, the answer is: SharePoint. But, despite SharePoint 2010 is much easier to install (well, I’m not talking about the Beta release here). I recently blogged about the lack of a killer application for the client side. I’ve got…  Read more

Recently I have seen a long demo of BonaVista Dimensions. It is a product that is able to create reports and, most important dashboards. You can use it also without SQL Server and Analysis Services, just by importing data in…  Read more

A couple of weeks ago the first version of Vizubi has been released. It is an Excel AddIn with many of the features of PowerPivot, but also with a few important differences. I made some tests and in this post…  Read more

There are several versions of PowerPivot available and starting with Excel 2013 there are also several versions of Excel. It is useful to look at the compatibility between the different versions of Excel and PowerPivot available now. As a general…  Read more

Today at PASS Summit 2012 there have been several announcements during the keynote. Moreover, other news have not been highlighted in the keynote but are equally if not more important for the BI community. Let’s start from the big news…  Read more

If you want to detect if a particular instance of Analysis Services “Denali” is running in Tabular or Multidimensional mode, you have several choices. In the Books On Line you can find a few instructions to detect the version by…  Read more