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• Microsoft BI Security White Paper #ssas #powerpivot #sharepoint #ssrs

  There is a new whitepaper from Microsoft, Microsoft BI Authentication and Identity Delegation , which describes all the authentication and delegation scenarios with Microsoft BI technologies: Personal BI Scenarios (Excel) Team BI Scenarios (SharePoint) Read More... Posted Monday, March 11, 2013 2:47 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 0 Comments Filed under: Analysis Services, Reporting Services, PowerPivot

• BonaVista Dimensions used as a report service

  Recently I have seen a long demo of BonaVista Dimensions . It is a product that is able to create reports and, most important dashboards. You can use it also without SQL Server and Analysis Services, just by importing data in a local cube file that you Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 26, 2011 10:13 AM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 1 Comments Filed under: MDX, Excel, Reporting Services

• The Microsoft BI Roadmap: BISM, UDM and Beyond

  Microsoft recently announced a new roadmap for its BI architecture. The next version of SQL Server, codenamed “Denali”, is going to introduce a new semantic model named BISM (Business Intelligence Semantic Model). Analysis Services will host it and it Read More... Posted Monday, November 15, 2010 3:05 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 6 Comments Filed under: Business Intelligence, Conference, SSAS, Analysis Services, MDX, Excel, Reporting Services, BIDS, PowerPivot, DAX, PASS, BISM, UDM

• Real Report Builder 2008 improvements for Analysis Services

  Brian Welcker (who is leaving SSRS team - good luck Brian!) has announced a long explanation of the Report Builder 2008 positioning . For me (and all of you who live in the multidimensional business...) the most important part of the post is this simple Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 19, 2007 12:38 AM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 0 Comments Filed under: Reporting Services, SQL Server 2008

• Rich TextBox in SQL Server Reporting Services 2008

  I'm attending a session about SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 where I've seen one of the mostly wanted missing features of previous versions of Reporting Services: it is the Rich TextBox component, that can embed placeholders to compose text with data Read More... Posted Thursday, June 07, 2007 7:32 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 4 Comments Filed under: Reporting Services

• Developing a customized reporting solution based on SSRS

  I just attended the session named "Applied Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services" held by of Teo Lachev . Teo developed a complex solution that allow an end user to build its own reports with financial data, using Reporting Services as a back-end Read More... Posted Monday, June 04, 2007 5:56 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 0 Comments Filed under: Reporting Services

• Reporting Services required features

  Almost ten years ago (...ouch!) I visited Australia and I had a real love for Sydney. I got these memories tonight because I found a detailed list when I was looking for some existing request for new features in Reporting Services. One is the Rich TextBox Read More... Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 1:45 AM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 2 Comments Filed under: Reporting Services