This week, the Reporting Services (SSRS) Technical Preview gets released for download.   Not only does this allow you to embed Power BI Reports inside a Reporting Services Native Mode Report Server, but you can embed them inside SharePoint 2016 web part pages too.  And this goes...

The Bathurst 1000 is a 1,000 kilometre touring car race held every year on the Mount Panorama Circuit, in Bathurst New South Wales, Australia, Oi, Oi, Oi.  During the off season, the circuit, is actually open to the public, driven daily by locals and tourists alike.  It is...

Flow has been available for some time now as a beta program wthin Office365 offering Cloud orchestrated business workflows.   What does this actually mean to a business user? These workflows offer businesses the opportunity to automate, improve operational efficiency, reduce room...

Broken Hill, Australia… was the backbone of the country during two world wars producing ingredients for materials, employment, memories and lifetimes for many…  Now a stark but beautiful place to visit, the best steak in the country, and home of Priscilla Queen of the...

Read an official Microsoft Power View page and you will see that “Power View is an interactive data exploration, visualisation, and presentation experience that encourages intuitive ad-hoc reporting”.     Power View reports actually look pretty sweet too… there...

Possibly my favourite Macbook ever is the trusty mid 2012 edition model.   This portable and powerful unit is still very current, supporting Thunderbolt and USB 3, powerful processors, decent battery life, popular 13 inch size and upgradeable to 16Gb of memory, ideal for running...

This is an era when sales of the iPhone are declining… and the variety, velocity and veracity of data is growing at record rates.   Those of you utilising SharePoint online for your business documents might find it useful to keep tabs on changes to your document libraries...

Your business is agile, up and coming, and thrives on real time decision making.  Forget about everything you know about traditional reporting for a minute, and imagine having at your fingertips,  a unified mobile app to deliver insights any way, anywhere and from any device,...

Power BI is at the top of the hype curve right now, and everyone is taking about it from operational decision makers through to the CEO as a one size fix-all.   Power BI has a few coloured skies: Power BI Desktop, Power BI Cloud and the lovely Power BI Mobile app. But if your...

SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) to date has focused on paginated printable pixel perfect reports and offers class-leading capabilities for that format.  Reporting Services reports really havn’t changed that much since the beginning, but that’s a strength too, with Reporting...