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 can model using its own simple to use user interface. But what is interesting to me (in this ...

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 ...

[This is just a quickie, I’m putting it up here for anyone that received the messages above and searches for it online!] Earlier today my team experienced some issues with a Reporting Services report that when attempting to export to Excel would cause Excel to throw the error “Excel found unreadable content” (I really should have got a screenshot ...