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Automated Customer Acceptance Testing with Report Builder

Posted Tuesday, September 19, 2006 6:10 PM by elandes
I've been mulling over how to automate our Customer Acceptance Testing (CAT) process for a while now. Currently all our CAT is done manually in front of the customer. It's not agile at all. However, our systems are built combining tools like InfoPath, Read More...
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A couple of new articles

Posted Wednesday, July 26, 2006 12:33 PM by elandes
Articles on using Crystal Reports with Microsoft Project Server. Read More...
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Reporting Services Subscription Bug?

Posted Friday, July 21, 2006 6:23 PM by elandes
I just recently discovered what I believe is a bug in RS 2005 subscriptions. I'd love to hear if anyone else has encountered this, and what their workaround is. The problem I've encountered involves 2 date parameter fields, along with at least 2 parameters Read More...
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Great post on Creating an Analysis Server BI Project with TFS

Posted Monday, July 10, 2006 8:23 PM by elandes
Eric Lee posted a great video on how to create KPI's from the Team Foundation Server warehouse. Apart from being a great tutorial on how to create new measures for TFS for your organization, I've found this to be a quick and dirty tutorial for creating Read More...
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Future BI Direction for Microsoft.

Posted Thursday, June 08, 2006 1:22 PM by elandes
Since I use a lot of Microsoft enterprise tools, including BI stuff like OLAP and Reporting Services, this link on Dr. Dobbs was interesting to me. http://ddj.com/dept/database/188702217?cid=RSSfeed_DDJ_DataBase discusses PerformancePoint Server 2007. Read More...
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Report Builder Competitor

Posted Thursday, March 02, 2006 12:51 PM by elandes
For those of you who do not like Report Builder as your end user tool for creating reports using Reporting Services, here's a tool that is supposed to be simpler, RSInteract . Hat Tip to Chris Web's BI Blog on this one. However, I would dispute with Chris Read More...
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Issue With Web Service as Data Source for Reporting Services

Posted Thursday, February 23, 2006 3:42 PM by elandes
Something interesting I found utilizing the BI stuff available in Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005. Another developer and I were asked to create a quick demo version of a report, that sourced data from a list on Sharepoint. I have already done this Read More...
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Great post on reasons to use OLAP

Posted Wednesday, February 01, 2006 5:46 PM by elandes
Here's a great post on the Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 blog site about why to use OLAP or SQL Server 2005. I would add one more reason, which is utilizing a front-end most end-users are familiar with, specifically Excel. Share this post: email Read More...
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Microsoft Business Scorecard

Posted Wednesday, December 21, 2005 3:11 AM by elandes
This may be old news, but the other day I discovered that the new Microsoft Business Scorecard now has a cost. When I originally looked at it in August, it was a free download. Now I'm finally ready to implement something, and it's now a product. I guess Read More...
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New article on Crystal Reports in VS 2005

Posted Thursday, May 26, 2005 10:49 PM by elandes
I wanted to mention that I've finished my series of articles on using Crystal Reports in Visual Studio 2005. The article is available on aspalliance.com and through the crystal alliance site . The design needs a bit of work, but I got to work a bit more Read More...
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Using WebServices as a Datasource in Reporting Services

Posted Tuesday, March 01, 2005 2:05 PM by elandes
If you're looking for a way to use a WebService as a Datasource for your Reporting Services Report, there's no easy way to do this out of the box. However, at there is a submission at GotDotNet that might allow you to do this. I'm going to look into this. Read More...
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New Intranet licensing for Crystal

Posted Thursday, February 17, 2005 9:22 PM by elandes
The new Crystal XI brings a licensing feature that many Crystal Developers have been lobbying for. In many of the mail lists I'm on, Crystal's licensing of 3 licenses for web platforms (especially intranets) was seen as an obstacle for deployment. Crystal Read More...
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New Crystal Article by Me!

Posted Wednesday, February 02, 2005 11:49 AM by elandes
Introduction to FFAssist , an article on a sample application I'm developing in Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1, is now available on aspalliance. The idea is to see the differences in the new version of Crystal .NET by creating a new applicaiton that's heavily Read More...
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XP2 and Crystal

Posted Monday, January 24, 2005 11:57 AM by elandes
I noticed on the Dr. Crystal blog that Business Objects has released some info on their support for XP Service Pack 2 http://support.businessobjects.com/library/kbase/articles/c2016081.asp . Basically Crystal 10 is now certified by Business Objects for Read More...
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Reporting Services SP2 Beta

Posted Friday, January 21, 2005 9:15 PM by elandes
I saw this on anther blog today, and thought I'd pass it on. Unfortunately I forget the URL where I read about it. Microsoft is accepting testing of Beta 2 of Reporting Services which includes a sharepoint webpart. It also includes client side printing Read More...
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