After Rob posted Dynamic TopN Reports Using PowerPivot2!, I downloaded the workbook from the provided link to examine how his “tricks” were done

A colleague recently pointed me to a blog post on Birst’s website, that says QlikTech has jumped the shark.

A recent comment/question alerted me to the fact that I’ve never devoted a post just to this very useful (and often misunderstood) function.  Time to correct that.

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

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.

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.

Firstly, I have to be clear that I’m not presenting a “one-size-fits-all” approach to sales commission calculations here.

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.

UPDATE:  I am no longer working at Pivotstream and do not endorse their services.  All links are removed from this article but feel free to look them up if you are interested.

Even though it is still open, the one-question poll results have stabilized.  In fact, the percentages were pretty stable even from the beginning.

 A little bit of food for thought today, delivered in a pictorial/humorous style but with a serious point. A Running Joke That Never Gets Old I’m quite fond of the […]