Category BI Visualization

SQL Nexus Call for speakers is live

Nexus noun – “That which unites or binds”         After several months of work with a team of great people and companies: -Kenneth M. Nielsen (b|t) -Mark Broadbent (b|t) –ASAP design –Funky.biz –Microsoft –bloodyuseful We have the honour to launch the call for speakers for the next generation data platform conference in Copenhagen. The […]

Power BI Preview is now globally available

As of today Power BI dashboards are available in 140 markets worldwide. The announcement was made earlier today at the Microsoft Convergence Conference. This mean that we can begin to use Power BI dashboards without having to worry about owning a US tenant or finding creative solutions to be able to demo the great features […]

Speaking at SQL BITS XIV – Superheroes

The 14th edition (actually it is probably the 13th since they skipped SQLBits XIII – Who said superstition ?) of SQL Bits will take place from the 4th to 7th March in London. This years edition is placed under the Superhero theme. It is my first time at the event and I really have great […]

EPISODE 4– From Self Service Cloud BI to Enterprise Ready Cloud BI (Connecting to on premises Analysis Services – tabular)

This is the 4th post in the series about Power BI dashboards. All posts can be found here The previous post about Power BI designer can be found here I probably didn’t do my homework correctly since I wasn’t able to connect to my on-premises tabular instance of SQL Server Analysis Services. So let’s try […]

Power BI Preview – A journey

Here it is!! We have been waiting for it for a long time. I first saw it at the MVP Summit in November but now the Power BI dashboard is in a preview version. A lot has already been written about it so I won’t paraphrase or repeat that. So if you want more information, […]

Attending el primero sql saturday en España

This weekend was the first SQL Saturday in Spain – SQL Saturday #338. It was truly a great event. Kudos to the whole team  !! It was organized by Ruben Pertusa (T), Miguel Egea, Pau Sempere, Alejandro Leguizamo and a lot of other great community fellows. I had the pleasure and honor to join this […]

SSAS Basic at SQL Saturday 341 Porto

SSAS Basics pre-conference day I have the immense honor and privilege to have been selected to do a whole day of preconference on thursday October 16th at SQL Saturday Porto – Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida. During this whole day of training I will give a thorough introduction to SQL Server Analysis Services together […]

23 days to SQL Saturday Edinburgh BI EDITION

This 14th of June 2014 I am so delighted to go to Edinburgh and speak at SQL Saturday #281 BI Edition. Based on the previous years feedback the SQL Saturday team decided to have a dedicated BI edition. Including session on SQL Server 2014, Big Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Business Analytics and Data Visualization So I […]

The necessity of both

Great points and even better discussion about Corporate BI and Self-service BI and the necessity of both. Thanks Chris. Chris Webb's BI Blog I was chatting to a friend of mine a few days ago, and the conversation turned to Microsoft’s bizarre decision to make two big BI-related announcements (about Mobile BI and GeoFlow) at […]

See Beyond The Numbers: Data Visualization with Status Lists in Sharepoint 2010 – part 2 SSAS based Status Indicator and Fixed Value based Status Indicator

In part 1 of this post I wrote about first two types of Status Indicators : Sharepoint List based and Excel based. In this part I will demonstrate what the possibilities are for building Status List Indicators with SSAS KPIs and also with Fixed Values. SQL Server Analysis Services based Status Indicator This is a […]