ViewPoints Business Intelligence Event was a Success!
We want to thank all of our clients and partners that made ViewPoints business intelligence event a success in 2013. With so much changing in the business intelligence world, the […]
Entries by Jim Thompson
Filter Reports in Report Manager using Keywords
Microsoft’s Report Manager has already proven its capabilities as a powerful frontend portal, for easy distribution of reports to the business. The folder based interface in a browser makes navigation […]
Hiding Unrelated Dimensions in a BI Tool!
The main power of OLAP viewers (Business Intelligence Tools) is the ability for employees to do Ad Hoc reporting and analysis. If one simply chooses the measures and dimensions they […]
The Next Big Thing: TARGIT 2k13
Business Impact hosted last month ViewPoints, our customer appreciation day in Napa, where we invited our partner TARGIT to present their new product, TARGIT 2k13 – coming out this summer […]
Snapshot Tables Data Warehouse
Often our customers ask us to capture a specific point in time – say inventory or how much they are owed in Accounts Receivable – so that they can refer […]
Microsoft’s Master Data Management as a system?
Master Data Management (MDM) is important because dirty data means poor adoption, poor decisions and poor BI, but to think of it as a separate system is very difficult.[quote align=”right” […]
How to Install Pubs Database in SQL Server 2012 in 1 query
Upon request I published how to install Pubs database for SQL Server 2012. Several have had trouble attaching it following the guide for How to install Northwind for SQL Server 2012. […]
Stock out counts and other inventory balances
A client recently asked why their measure for Zero Inventory Counts (stock out counts) was running long, and you’d think getting a list of times you didn’t have inventory would […]
Identifying Product Line Profitability through Landed Cost Analysis
Edit: The webinar is closed for registration (February 5th 2013) Establishing landed costs for the products that a company handles can be a tricky business. There are freight costs, but they […]
