Mark Davis – Senior Business Intelligence Consultant, Superior Consulting Services, LLC I attended the Twin Cities’ Microsoft BI User Group recently and was in a conversation with a gentleman who asked me the question: “The Tabular BI Semantic model. Hmm. What is it useful for? It sounds small-scale, like it would only be used forRead more
Recently SCS was approached by a client and presented with an interesting problem: frequently, their data management application – a critical piece of their business model – would grind to a halt. Searches would take many minutes to complete, if they completed at all. Important reports which normally took less than a minute to runRead more
Superior Consulting Services is 15 years old. How did that happen? It seems like only yesterday I was walking into our little first-floor office suite over on the Highway 13 frontage road, shaking John’s hand, and finding out what FoxPro work he had lined up for me to do. That’s right, FoxPro – Visual FoxProRead more
This month’s tip comes from Jade Hildahl, Business Intelligence Consultant with Superior: In Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services 2008, the Tablix data region can be unwieldy when you’re wanting to turn on the feature where “keep headers visible while scrolling” is being used. This causes table headers to remain in place while the user scrollsRead more
SSRS is a great tool for quickly retrieving data and presenting the data to the user at a run-time decided format. One area where SSRS often falls short is when the underlying data needs to come from several different sources. Perhaps we want to retrieve data from the General Ledger which is in Oracle, and join that againstRead more
JavaScript is a very powerful tool to enhance the user experience. However, poorly optimized JavaScript can have a very negative effect due to increased page load time. This becomes particularly apparent as the number of elements on a page increases thanks to controls bound to increasingly large data sets. For those that are new toRead more
With consumer confidence returning, organizations are gearing up sales and promotion strategies to take advantage of the uptick. According to reports from Gartner and Forbes, Business Intelligence (BI) will be featured heavily in business strategies of this next cycle. This isn’t surprising: The critical activities that drive business success — strategic planning, goal setting andRead more
