The spring season is always full of events and I’m just preparing for a number of them. First of all, we are getting very good interest for the PowerPivot Workshop in Copenhagen on 21-22 March 2011. Tomorrow (Friday March 4)…  Read more

One new nice feature of Excel 2010 is the Slicer. Usually, slicers are used to filter data in a PivotTable. But they might be also useful to parameterize an algorithm or a chart! We discussed this technique in our book,…  Read more

After the successful first edition in Amsterdam of the PowerPivot Workshop in December, we are planning to repeat this 2-day intensive course on PowerPivot in several other European countries (we are also evaluating one or two possible dates in US…  Read more

Companies that have cubes on Analysis Services 2000 and still have not completed a migration to SSAS 2005/2008 might be interested in connecting to AS2000 from PowerPivot. Unfortunately, there are several limitations about using AS2000 as a data source for…  Read more

It has been confirmed that the Microsoft BI Conference 2009has been delayed to October 2010 (one year later). The immediate consequence is that the PASS Summit 2009 will be the main event where something new about Kilimanjaro could be disclosed…  Read more

I got some more information about Gemini. As Mosha said, it is Analysis Services. As you know, SSAS has always been available also as a client tool, using the same engine of the server product to create local cubes. The…  Read more

We’ve seen it on stage. It’s Excel on the steroids. I’m talking about “big announcement” here at Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference. The several announcements are: ·         Madison: the announcement of integration between SQL Server and DATAllegro, release expected within 1H…  Read more

I’ve just attended the Excel 12 BI session held by Amir Netz and Allan Folting. This is the first time that Excel 12 BI functionality are shown to the public. My expectations seems to be satisfied, even if I really…  Read more