Here’s a question that comes up with increasing frequency:  “PowerPivot seems kinda similar to Access in many ways, what’s the difference?” Why Does the Question Come Up? Some of you […]

The PASS Summit tends to be one of  Microsoft’s favorite venues for unveiling big news in the BI space.  As you may recall, the 2010 Summit revealed some amazing things for the PowerPivot world.

I’ve always been a firm believer that moving averages probably give a better insight into trends within a business than a simple trend line associated to a set of values such as monthly sales

In my recent post, Profit & Loss-The Art of the Cascading Subtotals, I went through a basic P&L layout with some relatively complex DAX measures to display and hide row headings as appropriate together with calculating accurate values.

Using Time Intelligence in PowerPivot can appear scary when you first start using it and I’ve seen some weird and wonderful ways of attacking it, some that look like we’re calling into question the validity of the global phenomenon that is time and others that are quite simply brilliant.

It’s that time of the month again folks… you know… for the next installment in my series for CIMA Insight!

Equivalents of Excel’s Percentile, Quartile, and Median functions are perhaps the most significant omissions in Denali’s DAX statistical function library. Quartile and Median are actually special cases of percentile, and in this post, we calculate these special cases.