I spend most of my time developing complex BI solutions and, doing that, I always talk with DBA, developers, CEO, data analysts and the many kind of people that work around a BI solution. Nevertheless, in these last months, publishing posts about PowerPivot  Read more

A very frequent question, when performing business analysis, is to count the number of working days in a certain period of time. Creating a data model with PowerPivot that gracefully handles working days is pretty easy, nevertheless it is worth a post.  Read more

As always, I am a bit later than Marco in producing news. Nevertheless, I am very excited to tell you  the new date for the Frankfurt workshop on PowerPivot: February 21-22, 2011 . Save the date and find all the relevant information on www.powerpivotworkshop.com  Read more

Hurry up! On January, 17 the early bird rate for the London PowerPivot Workshop will finish. You have a few days to save £150 from the regular price. Don’t miss the opportunity to attend the best PowerPivot workshop in Europe saving some money too.  Read more

Ranking is useful and, in our book , I and Marco provide a lot of information about how to perform ranking with PowerPivot. Nevertheless, there is an interesting scenario where ranking can be performed without complex DAX formulas, but with just some  Read more

As you might have read in Marco’s post , the PowerPivot Workshop I and Marco Russo have prepared is now starting its European tour. We will be in London on February 7,8 2011 and then touch most of the European countries during the next few months. We  Read more

I have always been used to small fonts but now, as I am getting older, I’d better admit that a greater font is much more relaxing. Editing PowerPivot measures has always been a pain, since all you have available is a small text box and I hate to admit  Read more

You know, I love Visio to develop simple databases and I have written a Visio add-in that performs the forward engineer of data models, called Visio Forward Engineer. Now I have found some time to update the project to version 1.1. You can download the  Read more

If you have already read this post from Marco Russo and have understood everything, then this new post of mine will be useless. But if you are like me, i.e. you have read it and have broken your head trying to understand the final (really smart!) formula,  Read more

Banding is one of the most common requirements when you have the need to analyze continuous values, like the retail price of a product which may change over time, due to discounts and price variations. I have already spoken about banding with regards  Read more