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 will be queryable through MDX and DAX. DAX has been introduced in PowerPivot as an expression ...

Reporting Services can be used in conjunction with Analysis Services, creating powerful reporting solution that can satisfy almost  any customer needs for “standard” reporting. For “standard” I mean solutions that has not be created using Excel and a Cube to give the user complete freedom (and responsibility) over data. In one of our current ...