Excel is 25 years old! That’s a very long time for any application to still be alive let alone integral to every organisation, from multi-billion dollar companies to the corner store.
Excel is a testament to Microsoft’s ability… Continue reading
Monthly Archives: June 2011
The truth about why IT want to kill Excel after 25 years
Double-Hop: The Kerberos Nightmare
BEWARE: Here there be dragons!
In the world of Microsoft BI, one of the more painful configuration tasks is to get double-hop authentication working so that you can run SQL Server Analysis Services on a separate machine to your application/web server.
There is a very detailed article from Microsoft on what you need to do and how to configure your environment to allow for double-hop authentication… Continue reading
Keeping that IIS 7 Site Snappy!
You are in the office early, you want to get stuck in to using your Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) based web site first thing whilst you have no distractions; you load your web site like CALUMO or SharePoint and … 45 seconds later… what the…?!
Welcome to IIS 7 recycling its application pools. By default, an IIS 7 application pool is set to do this after 20 minutes… Continue reading
Is Microsoft Excel the bad guy at ANZ and Oracle their saviour?
Verses Verses
I came across this article and immediately thought CALUMO can help ANZ through their Excel Hell issues. It is a common problem that all organisations have … you know: loads of spread sheets, linked, emailed to people, sent back [broken], stored on the K: drive, no L: hang on the folder name has changed, you don’t have access to that… Continue reading
Super FAST cubes with CALUMO
I was talking Paul Cavanagh-Downs, one of CALUMO’s awesome consulting team today. He showed me a web based CALUMO report he built in CALUMO that took about 1 second to display aggregated data. Paul changed the date, and some of the other 11 hierarchy members and the report still displayed in 1 second but with new data this time.
I say “Yeah, that’s pretty good. It looks nice too.”… Continue reading
Analysis Services – Vision & Roadmap Update from Microsoft
Look out world! Microsoft has finally given a pretty good roadmap for the next major release of SQL Server “Denali”.
SQL Server “Denali” looks pretty interesting with a new thing called the BI Semantic Model. On the face of it, Microsoft has a very compelling Business Intelligence offering that truly unifies Relation data with Multidimensional (tables and cubes). What does that mean? Hopefully one query, one business question… Continue reading
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