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I've been blogging about cloud BI and the advantages and possibilities of cloud-based business intelligence for IT and business knowledge users for a number of years now. Up until July 2013, I had put together only hybrid solutions using the...
The Microsoft BI world is buzzing about Microsoft's recent announcement made at their annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) conference on Mobile BI and Power BI, a new Cloud Business Intelligence offering for Office 365 customers. Several BI...
HDInsight is the Microsoft version of Hadoop on Windows which provides most of the commonly-used aspects of the Apache Hadoop Big Data platform including the HDFS file system, sqoop for data import/export, Hive for SQL queries, the MapReduce...
Previously here at the SQL Server Pro BI Blog, we've shown you methods of using Web Page reports in PerformancePoint Services in SharePoint 2010 (PPS) to add Power View reports into your dashboards. In that posting, I also introduce you to m...
I find PowerPivot to be an incredibly powerful tool for building ad-hoc analytical models from heterogeneous data sources. Now, there are a LOT of tools on the market today that can do that. But PowerPivot has the unique position of being fully...
Big Data has become one of the most over-used and over-loaded terms in IT and data management in recent years. Since we focus on business intelligence for SQL Server in this blog, I think it’s fair to make the statement that many of us have had ...
A great way to monitor and manage large SQL Server 2012 enterprise environments is with the Microsoft System Center Suite, particularly monitoring the servers with System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). One of the really nice benefits of using...
One of the most exciting and talked-about updates to SQL Server 2012 is SSRS 2012 and the new Power View reporting tool. If you’ve built existing BI solutions on the current or previous Microsoft BI stack, which would include SSRS 2008, SharePoint...
