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The BI-zness: April 2011
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Business Intelligence consulting, the easy way! Friday, April 29, 2011. Hippie's Backyard Redux: Data vs Information. What's the difference between data and information? It's not a trick question. Are (or "is", depending on your grammarian tendencies) unadorned facts, while. Therefore in order to answer business questions, a typical reporting user needs and wants plenty of information at their disposal, all based on dependable data. Accounting for users workflow-oriented interactions with data can help e...
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The BI-zness: December 2011
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Business Intelligence consulting, the easy way! Friday, December 2, 2011. RDL won't open in Design View in BIDS 2008? You may find yourself working on an SSRS report in BIDS 2008. You may ask yourself, "Why can't I re-open this report in Design View? Why is it this ugly line of non-formatted HTML? You may also find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile, or living in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife. But that's neither here nor there. And here's a brief explanation:. There is a ( known.
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The BI-zness: MDX query across multiple Role-Playing Dimensions in SSAS 2008R2
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Business Intelligence consulting, the easy way! Thursday, November 15, 2012. MDX query across multiple Role-Playing Dimensions in SSAS 2008R2. Here is what I would consider to be a magic post: http:/ richardlees.blogspot.com/2011/06/linkmember.html. To set the scene, an example of the problem I was having would be:. I want to find the numbers of New Widgets, Sold Widgets, and Improper Widgets, by month over the last 12 months (Rolling 12 Month totals). Appropriately filtering and slicing the Widget Count...
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The BI-zness: June 2011
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Business Intelligence consulting, the easy way! Friday, June 3, 2011. The Tip of the Spear". Aim at "first things first." Identify the top users, the top data interaction workflows, the top metrics/KPIs, and the top reports. Then, you can proceed in order of priority down into the details of who needs to see what data, and how. Essentially, you want to put together something like chart of business metrics which might overlay an Org chart. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The Tip of the Spear.
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The BI-zness: August 2011
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Business Intelligence consulting, the easy way! Monday, August 29, 2011. BI Estimation - "A more appropriate metahpor"? That's so obvious it kills me that I hadn't thought of it before. Monday, August 8, 2011. Let the DB Handle It. Perhaps I'm pointing out the obvious, but software developers don't always seem to experience data the same way that, say, a DBA or a BI developer does. Let the database handle it. Save some clock and RAM utilization in your web farm and. Let the database do it. It makes sense...
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The BI-zness: Collaboration or Groupthink?
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Business Intelligence consulting, the easy way! Friday, January 27, 2012. Saw this was posted on Facebook by a colleague at work:. Http:/ www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/opinion/sunday/the-rise-of-the-new-groupthink.html? The whole notion of calling out "teamwork" as such a basic value kind of gives me a chill. Goose bumps even. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Atlanta-area male. Medium height. Professional BI consultant at Clarity Solution Group. Semi-pro musician with Starrhustler.
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The BI-zness: SQL Server 2012 Data Tools "Gotchas"
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Business Intelligence consulting, the easy way! Thursday, December 6, 2012. SQL Server 2012 Data Tools "Gotchas". I've been working in SQL 2012 the past couple weeks on a new project, and I'm finally getting past the "new car smell"/honeymoon period. Over the last 2-3 days I've encountered some more subtle and insidious changes of which I'm not a fan. At all. Seriously, though, I think it looks great and is very usable once you get over the slight learning curve required to deal with any new OS. Where I ...
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The BI-zness: BI Estimation - "A more appropriate metahpor"?
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Business Intelligence consulting, the easy way! Monday, August 29, 2011. BI Estimation - "A more appropriate metahpor"? That's so obvious it kills me that I hadn't thought of it before. August 29, 2011 at 12:29 PM. Thanks for reading my article - glad that it was of interest. September 15, 2011 at 8:25 AM. Its a great metaphor. Good on yer! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). BI Estimation - A more appropriate metahpor? Let the DB Handle It. Why I switched from Android to Windows Phone Pho.
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The BI-zness: December 2012
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Business Intelligence consulting, the easy way! Wednesday, December 19, 2012. SSRS report with click-through detail hosted in PerformancePoint Services. You have a Reporting Services report (SQL 2008 or higher) hosted in SharePoint PerformancePoint Services (SHPT 2010 or higher). You are interested in adding a click path to that report which will open a detail report in a new window. How do you do it? How did I arrive at this conclusion? Before you even look at those posts, here are the basic moves:.
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