Russell Christopher's Semi-Useful BI Musings

Here’s an interesting behavior I saw being discussed that you may run into when launching the PPS add-in for Excel when you have (or not) language packs installed: The PerformancePoint Add-in for Excel could not be loaded. The language pack for the...

Today I needed to write a bit of code to create a model on a SQL 2005 Report server which was running in Sharepoint integrated mode. Boy, what fun I had! After creating my web reference, I got this error: Custom tool error: Unable to import WebService...

Today I was playing around with stacking SSAS on top of Teradata. Essentially I have AdventureWorks DW moved over into Teradata and I’m trying to build a dumbed-down version of the AdventureWorks cube against it. Things went fairly well while my partitions...

File this under "reclaim a few second of your life". If you build semi-complex pivots in the SSAS browser, you probably get annoyed when you have to rebuild them time and time again after you close the cube designer. Well, Yossi Elkayam has written the...

While working on a KPI in PPS, I found that after binding an Actual and Target to my cube I couldn’t see values for these metrics after adding the KPI to Scorecard and updating. The indicator image these metrics showed was “No Data”. I broke out...

I had $140 burning a hole in my pocket and saw a great domain name was available, so I've purchased 2 years of hosting for the next incarnation of this blog - performancepointblog.com . The content will be similar to what you've seen here, but with a...