Good article hereabout Microsoft's roadmap for mobile BI based on the Windows 8 platform, including support for iOS and Android. These look like they will start to role out in 2012 and this will include new"touch" features for Project ...
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I'm happy to announce that Altius Consulting (CI) Ltd is looking for a couple of talented individuals with skills in the Microsoft BI technologies. Broadly this is:SQL Server, SharePoint, SSIS, Analysis Services, Reporting Services, PerformancePoint, ...
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I was reminded the other day that during Tony Emerson’s speech at a Private Banking event in Jersey he mentioned that Office Communicator has been rebranded to Microsoft Office Lync. The virtual launch date is tomorrow (17th November). You can find out ...
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I thought it was worth sharing some experiences from last week with you all. We had to get some documentation in shape for a project we’ve been working on and we had the usual problem of multiple people all trying to edit at the same time. ...
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The Business Intelligence videos from last weeks Microsoft TechEd 2010 Conference are now available on-line and available here. They are all excellent and I certainly recommend watching them if you get the chance. Somestandouts from the sessions I ...
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This week I’ve seen some very impressive demos. As well as PowerPivot and SharePoint I’ve been to sessions on Master Data Services, Advanced Analysis Services UDM modelling, Fast Track Data Warehouse (RAID discussion at 8am – good start to the ...
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No keynote speeches today, so instead I took the opportunity to attend some sessions on PowerPivot and found that in most of them SharePoint was being discussed nearly as much as PowerPivot. First up was a deep-dive session into the technologies ...
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Microsoft have just shown off a PowerPivot workbook with 2,000,000,007 rows in it, and it still sorted and filtered the whole data set almost instantly. They were demoing this new coming-soon feature the BI Keynote session given by Ted Kummert, ...
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“Cloud is a major transformation of the [IT] industry” was the message from Bob Muglia, President of the Server and Tools division of Microsoft and keynote speaker on the opening day of the 2010 Microsoft TechEd conference. His message was that ...
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I gave a quick demonstration of Excel 2010 and the new PowerPivot add-in to a client today and they were impressed. One piece of feedback though caught me a little off-guard which was, “does this tool mean you’re out of a job?”. It’s a very good ...
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Got a new toy. Recently I had a trip over to England and was able to grab some technical preview ISO’s including the one for Office 2010 beta. Now what I’m really after is a chance to play with PowerPivot, but I thought I’d share some initial ...
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Last week the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC) published a report on findings into it’s Anti-Money Laundering examination of Trust Company Business in Jersey. Under its regulations the JFSC requires Trust Companies to prepare business risk and ...
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One of the main items I’ve been working on this year is a regulatory compliance project based around the ability to Know Your Customer (KYC). In order to try to reduce fraud and risk, banks and other financial institutions have a requirement to keep ...
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A typical function required of many data warehouses is the ability to do currency conversions. This is especially true in the Finance industry where you will probably have accounts in multiple currencies, but for reporting purposes you will probably want ...
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An old, but good,post from Rob Kerr detailing how to do data driven time filters in PerformancePoint M&A. This is especially useful when you haven't got every day ofthe year in your date dimension and so your PerformancePoint time filter gets out ...
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