I recently tried Excel for iPad and tried opening several workbooks. The results are pretty good, but I’ve found that it wasn’t possible to display certain workbooks. For example, opening a workbook that contains many CUBEVALUE formulas, I should have…  Read more

Microsoft recently released a public preview of Power BI Dashboard. This new service is raising interest because of new visualizations and for the openness to developers, thanks to APIs that can be used also for real-time visualizations. Are you interested…  Read more

This year is going to end, Maya failed their predictions and while this is bad for predictive industry, it’s also good for all of us! We’ve seen many news in Microsoft BI stack: Excel 2013 has been RTM’d – its…  Read more

Today at PASS Summit 2012 there have been several announcements during the keynote. Moreover, other news have not been highlighted in the keynote but are equally if not more important for the BI community. Let’s start from the big news…  Read more

Microsoft released a new version of Power BI in preview mode, including many new visualizations that are immediately available to all existing subscribers also in production, such as the long waited treemap, combo charts (combining line chart and column chart),…  Read more

Today Microsoft announced the availability of Power BI preview also outside United States. https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-preview-now-available-worldwide/ One important thing to note is that also the mobile app for iPad and iPhone are also available worldwide. Jus go in the Power BI Download…  Read more

Surfing on the web, here, I came into this intriguing question: How do we ask something like “Show me how many customers have an iPad but don’t have a book?” We are speaking about a sales analysis where the canonical…  Read more

My Microsoft® PowerPivot for Excel® 2010: Give Your Data Meaning book has been printed and is now in stock on many bookstores! This is another good news of the past week, who have been dense of good news. I and…  Read more