Next week I will be in Paris and Brussels for two editions of the PowerPivot Workshop . The evening after the first day of the workshop is always a good chance to meet people from local communities and I am happy there will be two community events, too!  Read more

Some weeks after my blog post about Bonavista Dimensions I’ve been able to look at a comprehensive demo of XLCubed , but since then I’ve been too busy to write about that (and in general to blog – I have several topics I will blog about as soon as the  Read more

Jeffrey Wang wrote a very detailed blog post about recursive calculations in MDX with Analysis Services. In these days I’m doing some comparison between DAX and MDX (well, between Vertipaq/PowerPivot and OLAP/SSAS engines) and I’m discovering that MDX  Read more

April has been a month full of conferences and May will be full of workshops! I’m also working on other things and I hope to be able to publish more technical content in my blog very soon! In the meantime, we just announced an edition of the PowerPivot  Read more

As I blogged last month , the spring is a season full of events and this is a reason why I’m not writing technical articles in these weeks. But I promise I’ll write again in a few weeks, there are a lot of interesting ideas that need to be written down.  Read more

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 to write code  Read more

These are the last days to register for the PowerPivot Workshop in Zurich on April 4-5, 2011. If you are willing to attend, hurry up! Moreover, on Thursday evening there will be also a Swiss PASS Chapter meeting in Zurich and Alberto Ferrari will present  Read more

Several months ago I wrote about the issue importing measures from an Analysis Services cube in PowerPivot. The short story is that, when you define the MDX query, all columns are imported as Text. Of course, this is not a good thing for the numeric measures.  Read more

Chris Webb posted a wonderful solution to the Last “ever” non empty calculation in MDX . I never thought to this solution and it is really a nice approach. I think that DAX might be faster in this scenario – a similar calculation has been shown in this  Read more

A common feature request for PerformancePoint is importing a briefing book from ProClarity. As far as I know, this is not available. Today (thanks to a tweet from @denglishbi ) I discovered a product, Pyramid Analytics bioXL , which has a specific feature  Read more