Since the first beta of Analysis Services 2012, I worked with many companies designing and implementing solutions based on Analysis Services Tabular. I am glad that Microsoft published a white paper about a case-study using one of these scenarios: An  Read more

One of the first models I created for the many-to-many revolution white paper was the Survey one. At the time, it was in Analysis Services Multidimensional, and then we implemented it in Analysis Services Tabular and in Power Pivot, using the DAX language.  Read more

If you use Report Builder with Reporting Services, you can use DAX queries even if the editor for Analysis Services provider does not support DAX syntax. In fact, the DMX editor that you can use in Visual Studio editor of Reporting Services (see a previous  Read more

During the keynote of the PASS Business Analytics Conference, Amir Netz presented the new forecasting capabilities in Power View for Office 365. I immediately tried the new feature (which was immediately available, a welcome surprise in a Microsoft announcement  Read more

I will be in Copenhagen to deliver the SSAS Tabular Workshop on June 2-4, 2014 (few seats still available, but hurry up!). In the same week I will be a speaker in an evening community event, MsBIP møde nr. 21 , delivering the Power Query in Modern Corporate  Read more

Comparing sales and budget, or costs and budget, is a very common operation. However, it is often the case that you have different granularities for different tables containing budget and the data to compare with. There are two ways to do that: you can  Read more

If you are attending TechEd North America in Houston this week, stop me and say hello! I am always happy to meet blog readers, and of course if you have question or topic to discuss, try to join me at the BI booth expo. I tried to put a list of where  Read more

I will be in London to teach the Advanced DAX Workshop on June 11-13, 2014 (if you are interested, there are still seats available). During my stay, I will also deliver an evening community session titles SSAS Tabular from the Trenches on June 11, 2014  Read more

Just a few days before my session about Power Query at TechEd 2014 , Microsoft released a new update that enables the scheduled data refresh of a Power Pivot workbook containing Power Query transformations. This is a very good news, because it enables  Read more

Since its release, I’ve seen a number of scenarios where Analysis Services Tabular is the analytical engine of the reporting section in a larger system. In these conditions, at least a part of the queries sent to Analysis Services are DAX queries generated  Read more