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Excel Services BI Goodness
I’ve always had a soft-spot for budgeting/forecasting applications. Show me a nice tight revenue/expense cube, a decent Excel-based client, and interactive browser-based reporting capabilities and I’ll show you a company with an efficient Read More...
New OfficeZealot.com Zone
I’ve always felt that MS Office, particularly Excel, has been underutilized and/or misunderstood as a business intelligence tool. Consequently, reading about all of the business intelligence features in Office 12 is music to my ears. While there Read More...
Happy Birthday SQL Server 2005
You too Visual Studio! I'm looking forward to developing many great solutions with the both of you... http://www.eweek.com/category2/0,1874,1882220,00.asp http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/applicationplatform/launch2005/default.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/sql/default.msp Read More...
Business Intelligence in Office 12
I read this post from David Gainer with interest, particularly the comments. I guess you've got to have thick skin if you work for Microsoft. While I'm very excited about the expanded BI capabilities of Excel, not many of the initial people who commented Read More...
May I have More Office BI Tools Please?
I was really excited when I saw the increased Analysis Services specific functionality in Excel XP versus Excel 2000. Given all of the improvements made, I had high hopes for similar advances in Excel 2003. Unfortunately the PivotTable functionality was Read More...