Dear Microsoft: Please Fix the Search & Intelligence Center, Which Gives Us Only Minimal Insights

Last week, we had a client wondering why they saw this in the Search & Intelligence Admin Center. Not only was Top queries showing “No data”, but there was “No data” for No results queries and Abandoned queries, too. This was the case even when we changed the filter from the last 31 days to…

Getting Up and Running with Power BI and SharePoint Lists

A few weeks back when I was at the Digital Workplace Conference in Melbourne – a most excellent conference – I saw Adam Cogan (@adamcogan) demonstrate Power BI in his session Improve Your Business Intelligence with Power BI. I’d seen Power BI before a few times, but the way Adam showed it, it finally “clicked” for me. I…

PerformancePoint Moving into the SharePoint World

My colleague Mauro Cardarelli posted about this the other day: By now, you have probably heard about Microsoft’s decision on the future of PerformancePoint Server (Microsoft Business Intelligence Announcement Q&A).  Kudos to friend Chris Webb for breaking the news… at least to me! For PerformancePoint jocks, this is probably bad news, but as a SharePoint…