Rob Kerr, MCDBA, MCTS is a Principal Consultant for BlueGranite, a Microsoft Business Intelligence Gold Partner. The views expressed in this blog are his own and are not reviewed or endorsed by BlueGranite or Microsoft.
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Data-driven Time filters in PerformancePoint M&A

Recently I've been working on methods to display time filters in PerformancePoint M&A that are more user-friendly and efficient for users.  The conventional alternatives--Member Selection, Time Intelligence Post-Back and Time Intelligence Filter--have their strengths, and all of them ... [More]
Posted:6/2/08, 01:32 by keruibo | 0 Comments
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Little a vs. Big A

When planning a deployment of PerformancePoint Monitoring & Analytics (PPS M&A), an often overlooked component in the business solution is the ProClarity Analytics Server (PAS) application layer.   PAS is sometimes not deployed by customers, and their analysts are... [More]
Posted:5/24/08, 11:13 by Rob | 0 Comments
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Microsoft BI with Constrained Kerberos Delegation

In a Microsoft BI environment, we very often want to grant data visibility permissions at the datebase level.  The most common way to accomplish this is to use Kerberos delegation.  In Active Directory, delegation comes in two flavors: Constrained and Unconstrained. Constraine... [More]
Posted:5/17/08, 23:40 by keruibo | 0 Comments
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Favorite Visualization #2 – The Performance Map (Heat Map)

In a related post I wrote about one of my favorite visualizations, the Decomposition Tree.  This time I'll write about one I like even more--the Heat Map (or in Microsoft terminology, the Performance Map). As I said before, state-of-the art BI tools enable a level of explorat... [More]
Posted:4/19/08, 21:31 by Rob | 0 Comments
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Favorite Visualization #1 – Decomposition Tree

Business Intelligence is a broad topic, spanning a set of technologies and business improvements spanning from enterprise reporting to analytics to performance management.  One of the more interesting areas is in data exploration and visualization. State-of-the art BI tools enable a lev... [More]
Posted:4/19/08, 21:08 by Rob | 2 Comments
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SQL Server 2005 SP3

Francois Ajenstat wrote in a recent blog posting that Microsoft will release a SP3 for SQL Server 2005.  There has been a groundswell of support in the user community for this, and it's a relief to know it's on the way. This is especially great news for those of us dep... [More]
Posted:4/19/08, 16:54 by Rob | 0 Comments
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