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Gemini has an official name: PowerPivot

Posted Tuesday, October 20, 2009 11:00 AM by petereb
Well the Gemini team is making progress towards shipping. Now they have a real name: PowerPivot . They still don’t have any pricing/licensing/packaging details; that is promised later this year. There’s also links to sign up for a beta. But I don’t have Read More...
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PerformancePoint Server 2007 SP3 released

Posted Friday, October 16, 2009 6:30 PM by petereb
Finally made it out the door ! For the AddIn I have a couple notes: Besides the usual rollup of hotfixes (bug fixes) there is a new feature: Line Item Details (LIDs). This was supported by the server but not on the client side, and now it is! We did our Read More...
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Excel 2010 is better than the PPS Planning AddIn

Posted Thursday, October 15, 2009 10:00 AM by petereb
Although the model of using an Excel AddIn can be a little clunky (especially for what PPS Planning called the contributor scenario) I think my team did a pretty good job getting some very usable reporting elements. Now I get to point you to things my Read More...
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Gemini destroys the world….Not!

Posted Saturday, August 29, 2009 7:43 PM by petereb
So in a previous post I tried to tear down Gemini to something relatively simple, instead of curing cancer. This post is when I build it back up. Gemini just lets end-users combine data without having to get IT and DBAs involved. This is precisely where Read More...
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Gemini Cures Cancer…Not!

Posted Wednesday, August 26, 2009 4:28 PM by petereb
Most of the people reading this blog have probably also seen demos or at least heard of Gemini and it’s magical powers of solving all BI problems known and unknown. (And you probably want to be looking at it. You can see if you get accepted to the CTP Read More...
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Radio Silence

Posted Friday, July 17, 2009 4:00 PM by petereb
Well radio silence has been maintained quite successfully. Sorry for the lack of updates but with Planning development ended I haven't had a lot to say… Office 2010 (aka Office 14) is finally starting to see the light of day. I know some of you by now Read More...
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Microsoft BI Conference 2008

Posted Monday, September 29, 2008 9:00 PM by petereb
I imagine that very few people who read this blog don't already know about the Microsoft BI Conference happening in Seattle this year during October 6-8. I'll be spending as much time as I can there (since I'm local its easy for me to go but I've still Read More...
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Extended absences and other people doing my job for me!

Posted Saturday, September 27, 2008 10:00 AM by petereb
Its been quite a while since I've posted. I've still been hanging out in the PPS TechNet forums, but just haven't been finding as much time to post. I've had a little change in job duties that are taking some time to adjust to. Anyway I'm very pleased Read More...
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SP1

Posted Thursday, June 05, 2008 3:22 AM by petereb
If you haven’t seen it yet the english builds are available! http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3444589&SiteID=17   I have some details about the addin performance improvements http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3445168&SiteID=17 Read More...
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When will data appear in the cube after a submit from the PPS Planning Business Client?

Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008 4:00 PM by petereb
It's actually hard to say. This process is asynchronous which is why the status is initially Pending, then WaitProcess, then finally Partial/Submitted. See my other posts about assignment statuses and assignment actions for more details and a quick overview. Read More...
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HOWTO: Dynamic rows or columns with a dimension property filter

Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 4:00 PM by petereb
To filter rows and columns by a filter selection has previously been discussed here . But one thing you might not have noticed is that the list of property values (aka the filter scope) is static. If a new member property appears the form needs to be Read More...
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HOWTO: Filter rows and columns by selecting from a filter

Posted Friday, May 09, 2008 4:00 PM by petereb
(Sorry for the gap since my last post, things have been a bit busy lately in Peter Eb. land…) One simple way to do this filtering is to enable suppress blank rows or suppress blank columns. Then when there is no data (non-null) in the cube for those rows/columns Read More...
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What does this PPS Planning workflow action mean?

Posted Monday, April 28, 2008 12:00 PM by petereb
Workflow handles jobs, cycles, assignments and more. In keeping with my focus on the PPS Planning Business Client (aka Add-In for Excel), this post will just cover those actions related to assignments. In keeping with my new analogy of describing workflow Read More...
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HOWTO: Select a time range that is dynamic (updates over time for a rolling forecast)

Posted Friday, April 25, 2008 3:00 PM by petereb
There are 2 kinds of ranges that the PPS Planning Member Picker supports: 1) From the selected member to an offset from current period (or vice versa). 2) Or from an offset from the current period to another offset from the current period. (It's also possible to simply use an offset from the current period without a range specified). When using the member picker with Time look for the special dropdown that appears - hopefully this isn't surprising - called...."Time"! Read More...
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HOWTO: Hide filters for dimensions that confuse users

Posted Thursday, April 24, 2008 4:00 PM by petereb
For data entry forms (and even some reports) its pretty important to keep contributors focused on their specific task. Its especially easy for users who are not familiar with OLAP or PPS to be confused by some things: "TimeDataView" and "Business Process" Read More...
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