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Unraveling the Microsoft Analysis Services Deployment Wizard

Analysis Services Deployment Wizard Admit: either you love it or you hate it. And I must confess I was part of the last group, but now the wizard have convinced me to love it despite some caveats. So what did me switch sides? First

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The beauty of the #SSAS DefaultMember

The DefaultMember property for the dimension is know by every Microsoft BI professional. This property sets the default selected member of a dimension attribute, so that member will be selected by default. The dimension DefaultMember can be declared in BIDS or by using an

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My PerformancePoint experiences

Finally I made some time to write about my experiences with PerformancePoint 2010 and then focused on my dashboard specially for the iPad and the new SP1 features. Last April the was a business request to enable the existing PerformancePoint dashboard for viewing on

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Update on the future of SSAS

Last November I wrote about the future of SSAS and BISM (see here for the original post). Now with the release of CTP3 of SQL Server codenamed ‘Denali’ (download here), the new BISM and the two different modes are open to the public so

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Preparing for the #SSASMaestros in HK

After a long wait and a lot of arrangements, I am finally about to leave to Hong Kong for the SSASMaestro training. At this moment I got not that much to tell, mainly because of the NDA. But the slides already shared looks very

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Analysis on tagged customers

It is been a while since my last blog and of course I got the standard excuses. The two main are: busy with my project/customer and I intended to blog about the upcoming SQL Azure Reporting release, but as you know: it is

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My thoughts on the future of SSAS and BISM (UDM 2.0)

Today there is a lot of talking about the new BI Sematic Model (BISM) released with the next version of SQL Server, codenamed Denali. Chris Webb has written a good blogpost about the upcoming changes and gave his fair opinion to it. In most

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What about the future of BI

There is a shift going it the IT world: more and more applications are moving to the cloud. Recent examples, e.g. Office365, shows that the gap between the on-premise version and the cloud version are rapidly closing. Even the promise of Microsoft to