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Dundas Chart Controls for .NET Available

On Friday, Microsoft released chart controls for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5. These are re-tooled Dundas .NET chart controls which are now baked in the .NET framework. This is important because you can add the same stunning Dundas chart features to your Windows Forms and ASP.NET applications without...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) by tlachev on 10-27-2008
Filed under: Filed under: Business Intelligence
It's Done

A quick update on my book Applied Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services. I am happy to announce that the work on the manuscript is over and the manuscript RTM'd (released to manufacturing). The paper copy should be available on the reseller sites and brick and mortar stores around the publication...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) by tlachev on 07-20-2008
Filed under: Filed under: Reporting Services, Business Intelligence, SQL Server 2008
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack RC0, June 2008

Today, Microsoft released an updated feature pack for SQL Server 2008 RC0. Among other things, it includes: A web downloadable installer for Report Builder 2.0 which is not included anymore with the SQL Server 2008 setup An updated version of the RS add-in for SharePoint Analysis Services 10.0 OLE DB...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) by tlachev on 06-10-2008
Filed under: Filed under: Reporting Services, Analysis Services, Business Intelligence, SQL Server 2008
BI Salary Survey

Not sure how much your BI expertise is worth? The 2008 TDWI Salary, Roles, and Responsibilities Report TDWI survey may help.

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) by tlachev on 05-20-2008
Filed under: Filed under: General, Business Intelligence
Intelligencia Query

Chris Webb, a fellow MVP and MDX guru, who's blog is a must-read for all SSAS junkies, was kind enough to let me take a look at the Intelligencia Query product he's been working on for a while with Andrew Wiles. Chris announced the product back in April which is now selling as a commercial offering...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) by tlachev on 05-14-2008
Filed under: Filed under: Reporting Services, Analysis Services, Business Intelligence
Applied Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services

This is not an April's fool joke. I am excited to make an early announcement about my next book , Applied Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services, which has been keeping me busy lately. There are many exciting features coming up the next (third) release of Reporting Services which deserve coverage...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) by tlachev on 04-01-2008
Filed under: Filed under: Reporting Services, Business Intelligence
Applied Microsoft Analysis Services 2005 Goes E-Book

I happy to announce my book "Applied Microsoft Analysis Services 2005" is now available as an Adobe PDF e-book. The first retailer that Google Alerts reported to sell it is Diesel Ebooks . It should soon pop up on all popular ebook retailer sites, such as ebooks.com. The suggested retail price...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) by tlachev on 03-27-2008
Filed under: Filed under: Writing, Analysis Services, Business Intelligence
The Rational Guide To Planning with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007

I have to admit that my preoccupation with Reporting Services and Analysis Services don't leave me much bandwidth nowadays to tackle other Microsoft BI (far less third-party) offerings. One of the products I know I need to catch up is the planning component of PerformanceServer, formerly known as...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) by tlachev on 03-15-2008
Filed under: Filed under: Business Intelligence
Relational Guide to Monitoring and Analyzing with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007

As you know, business scorecards are the latest BI craze. Nick Barclay was kind enough to send me a copy of his new book Monitoring and Analyzing with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 by Rational Press which he co-authored with a co-worker and friend Adrian Downes. This is one of these relatively...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) by tlachev on 12-15-2007
Filed under: Filed under: Business Intelligence, Microsoft Office
Radius Producer "Produces" No-nonsense SSAS Support

In my opinion, the biggest challenge the Microsoft BI initiative faces today is the inadequate support for Analysis Services. The premimum Microsoft reporting tools claim to support SSAS but they all take an idependent view about what features they should support or not. To make things worse, even supported...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) by tlachev on 11-20-2007
Filed under: Filed under: Business Intelligence
SQL Server 2008 November CTP Is Out

The November CTP (CTP5) of SQL Server 2008 is out . Here are the most significant BI-related highlights that caught my attention. Reporting Services The standalone Report Designer has undergone a major facelift. It now sponsors a shiny Office 2007 ribbon interface. It will surely charm end users who...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) by tlachev on 11-19-2007
Filed under: Filed under: Business Intelligence, SQL Server 2008
July CTP of SQL Server 2008 Is Out

July CTP of SQL Server 2008 (Katmai) is out . On the BI side of things: New SSRS Report Engine "Improvements represent the two major infrastructure changes for Reporting Services. Reporting Services enhances the processing engine and rendering extensions to enable new functionality, such as Tablix...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) by tlachev on 07-31-2007
Filed under: Filed under: Business Intelligence
TechEd 2007 US Memoirs

I am back from an one-week vacation to Clearwater, Florida followed by TechEd 2007 US in Orlando. Overall, nothing earth – shattering on the BI arena from TechEd 2007. Product groups are between releases so most of the content was SQL Server 2005-based with a few sneak previews of some of the good stuff...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) by tlachev on 06-09-2007
Filed under: Filed under: Reporting Services, Analysis Services, Business Intelligence
The Rational Guide to Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005

Nick Barclay is telling us that the book The Rational Guide to Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 that he co-wrote with Adrian Downes is out ! You can use BSM to design scorecards that can be published to SharePoint dashboards or SSRS reports. As far as I know, this is the first BSM book...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) by tlachev on 04-17-2007
Filed under: Filed under: Business Intelligence
Designing SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services Cubes for Excel 2007 PivotTables Whitepaper

A bit outdated announcement perhaps but the Office team has released a Designing SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services Cubes for Excel 2007 PivotTables whitepaper. Instead of pestering you with how-to PivotTable questions, now your users can have proper documentation. A great deal of it discusses UDM implementation...

Posted to Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) by tlachev on 04-17-2007
Filed under: Filed under: Business Intelligence

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