KPI’s in PowerPivot V2
On Tuesday, in my intro to David Hager’s post, I promised to circle back “later today” and add some follow-on thoughts. Well, ONE of those words ended up being truthful
Month: May 2012
Conditional Formatting with Different Thresholds per Test, per Product, per Store, per Division, etc.
After a long hiatus, David Hager has returned with a new guest post. He has a clever Excel trick/formula for applying different conditional formatting “acceptable ranges” depending on the context of the current row. In his work, different Tests have different acceptable ranges of values that qualify as Pass/Fail/Warning
Percentile Measures in DAX – Errata
Guest Post by Colin Banfield [LinkedIn] In September of last year, I posted two articles on creating percentile measures in DAX. See Creating Accurate Percentile Measures in DAX – Part I and Creating Accurate Percentile Measures in DAX – Part II.
Excel 5-Calendar Date Table
For some time, I have been looking around for a fairly complete date table in Excel for use with PowerPivot.
Commission Calculations using DAX Part 2
You may recall in my last post, COMMISSION CALCULATIONS IN POWERPIVOT, we got to the point where we could dynamically calculate the sales value and attributable commission rate that should be applied based on time, value and team parameters, reading from a Rates table.
Commission Calculations using DAX
Firstly, I have to be clear that I’m not presenting a “one-size-fits-all” approach to sales commission calculations here.
Friday Bonus: What is “Stimulus Spending?”
I stumbled into an interesting discussion on Facebook yesterday, and didn’t have room to express my opinion there, so I thought I’d do it here. It’s about the economy, which has been my only real hobby for the past several years.
Beta-Testing the “ROI Quadrant”
If you’ve been around Business Intelligence for the past ten years, you’ve seen a LOT of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant. You can see the 2012 version here on Microstrategy’s web site.
DAX – Weighted Averages: Another Use of SUMX()
Another Question from the Mr. Excel Forums Got a question on the forums the other day. It took some extra twists and turns but the simplest version of the question is worth covering here: how do I perform a weighted average?