Excel Tip – Hacking Excel Web Queries
If you are unfamiliar with web queries its OK, their easy, and I’m gonna explain how they work and how to manipulate them beyond their intended use to increase ...
Author: bsullins
Life-long data geek, full-time author, and wannabe surfer dude
Predictive Analytics Applications for Business
The application of predictive analytics towards business provides companies with competitive advantage and removes the guesswork of strategic decision-making. P...
My Job
This is from a recent assignment I submitted. I thought it was relevant and decided to share. Enjoy! ~~ Business Intelligence Developer Position My position is ...
Short response to Sanju Bansal about BI and Performance
BI interfaces trying to make queries faster is a valiant effort
Centralized Business Intelligence
My approach as a BI professional has always been to organize the data into conformed structures, present that to end users for consumption in their ad-hoc analy...
SSRS 2008 Add-In for MOSS 2007
Quick one here…I was recently setting up a SSRS 2008 dev environment integrated with a MOSS 2007 dev environment and encountered some strange problems wit...
SSIS 2008 Package Configuration Issue
SSIS 2005 configuration strategy does not work in SSIS 2008
SSIS Event Log Business Intelligence
Tracking performance of SSIS processes using an ETL data mart
Microsoft Healthcare User Group Presentation
Wow, what a day yesterday. Gave a presentation at the Microsoft Healthcare User Group Conference with Rick Garcia of Methodist hospital to two completely packed...
Democratizing Business Intelligence using Gemini
If you've not heard of Gemini yet you're in for a treat. I found these videos on youtube yesterday of the Gemini demo from the BI conference last year that you ...