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In a short newspaper article a friend stumbled upon, he saw that Mr. Kamal Hathi , Director of Program Management at Microsoft is coming to Israel for the Think Next Convention. It was also detailed that Mr. Hathi was responsible for the SQL Server Business Intelligence technologies. As the time of the convention drew nearer, I felt more and more interested in trying to catch him for an interview about SQL Server 2012. At the end, I had to finish my questions quickly as Mr. Hathi did not stay till...
SQL Server 2012 was released last weekend (and yes, I know this means I’m late to blog about it!). Along with it were released the Data Mining Add-In for Excel 2010 (with a 64 bit version) and PowerPivot v2.0 . Whether your company just bought SQL Server 2012 , you downloaded the Express Edition or the Evaluation, you could probably still use some help. The ” Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (second DRAFT preview)” EBook was released in January and is free to download – enjoy!
Mr. Donald Farmer gave a lecture yesterday, May 31 st 2010, at the Israeli BI User Group. This is what I summed up from the session. Predictive Analytics A good predictive analytics project would have: Actionable - you get useful information from it Innovative - gives something new, new insight from the model Trustworthy - the model makes sense Seamless - part of your everyday operations, so that it will get used more easily by the users "All models are wrong, but some are useful" George...
Hot off the press! I just read on Teo Lachev's blog that Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Feature Pack RTM - ed. Yeah, I know! I have to admit this is also slightly amusing for me, as just this morning I asked a Microsoft consultant if he knew when it's suppose to drop... So you know what this means, you can now download a standalone version of Report Builder 3.0, PowerPivot for Excel and Data Mining Add-ins for Office 2007. Each can be downloaded by itself or as a whole package. If you're...
ב Reporting Services 2008 R2 הדוח שלנו יכול להפוך ל data source בפני עצמו מאחר וכעת ניתן להתחבר אליו ב PowerPivot דרך ה Atom data feed. הכוונה היא להציע את PowerPivot בחינם מתוך רצון שיעודד את הלקוחות לקנות רשיון ל SharePoint 2010. PowerPivot מהווה סוג של mid tier בין Excel Services ל AS Engine מבחינת ה SharePoint. שילוב ה PowerPivot עם SharePoint 2010 מאפשרת ניהול שלהם בקלות - זיהוי דוחות ה PowerPivot הכבדים ביותר מבחינת דרישות המשאבים שלהם וזיהוי רמת התכיפות בה משתמשים בקבצים השונים. ניתן כך להזהות...
Self Service BI ב Excel 2010 מתבטא במספר אופנים: שילוב SSAS מחוונים ויזואליים חדשים פילטור מתקדם Data mining PowerPivot (כולל שפת התכנות החדשה של DAX) אקסל גם משולב באופן אינטגרלי עם SharePoint 2010. Excel Services מאפשר לנו ניהול של אפליקציות האקסל מבחינת הרשאות, Workflow ארגוני והקצאת משאבים. בהערת אגב, מציין גם מר לוקוויקי כי ה thin client מאפשר למיקרוסופט גם להתחרות ב Google docs. השימוש באקסל דרך Excel Services מאפשר לעשות את מרבית הפעולות שאפשר לעשות על אקסל בדסקטופ המקומי. לעיתים, אנחנו מתחילים...
Well apparently, you can miss out on a lot of things during a two weeks vacation. Luckily I came back in time to see SP3 Beta for SQL Server 2005 get released! But I'll talk about that in a bit... The announcement of Project Gemini in SQL Server 2010 sparked a very heated debate in the BI Community, over how much it might be abused by users as an alternative to an organized DW \ OLAP solution. The discussion did not go unnoticed by Microsoft . I guess I can only sum up by saying that we'll...
The Microsoft BI Conference 2008 has been the source for quite a few announcements. First of all, now that DATAllegro was purchased by Microsoft, the talk is about SQL Server handling bigger amounts of data. There have been posts not just about terabyte projects, but also petabyte projects. The full integration of DATAllegro's technology into SQL Server is planned for the first half of calendar year 2010 and is code named Project Madison. SQL Server 2010 itself is code named Project Kilimanjaro...