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Microsoft Gold Partner Renewal, & resulting questions answered

Posted on April 28, 2010 by XLCubedBlog

We’ve just completed the process of renewing our Gold partner status with Microsoft. Among other things, this ensures we have early access to upcoming software through the CTP and beta programs, as has been the case with office 2010 over … Continue reading →

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PowerPivot, SQL R2, Sharepoint 2010, Office 2010.

Posted on March 26, 2010 by XLCubedBlog

So we’ve been using PowerPivot for a while now, and Office 2010 has been part of our lives for some time. I’ll use this blog to answer some of the questions that keep cropping up in conversation with our customers: 1. … Continue reading →

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Common Analysis Services Performance Issues

Posted on February 15, 2010 by XLCubedBlog

A quick blog post from the Services team here at XLCubed on some performance problems with SSAS that we’ve seen again recently. With the processing power and memory available it’s pretty easy to build a fast cube – both for query performance … Continue reading →

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2009 Excel Dashboard Competition Winners

Posted on September 27, 2009 by XLCubedBlog

Thanks to everyone who entered this years competition, again the standard was very high, and it’s always great to see the product being used so effectively. The entrants were extremely varied in both their style and subject matter, and made … Continue reading →

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Excel Dashboard Competition – deadline extended

Posted on July 13, 2009 by XLCubedBlog

We have decided to extend the entry deadline through the holiday period, to 28th August. As a reminder, the competition is for real world solutions (no sample data set), and judging criteria include: Clean and clear organization Effective table and … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Business Intelligence roundup

Posted on June 4, 2009 by XLCubedBlog

There have been a few key announcements in the Microsoft BI world recently, we’ve gathered them up and summarised below in case our readership have missed any of the key announcements. SQL Server 2008 R2 – (CTP Summer 09) “SQL … Continue reading →

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2009 Excel Dashboard Competition

Posted on May 12, 2009 by XLCubedBlog

We are pleased to announce the 2009 Excel Dashboard Competition: The Competition Like last year, the competition is for real world solutions, we are not providing a sample data set, and we’re looking forward to seeing some great examples of … Continue reading →

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Chart Tamer Released

Posted on April 8, 2009 by XLCubedBlog

Today we released Chart Tamer. You can download the final version here. Special thanks to our Expert Testers who helped us to make Chart Tamer a great product. Chart Tamer aligns Excel’s charts with the best practices of data visualization … Continue reading →

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XLCubed Video Library

Posted on April 8, 2009 by XLCubedBlog

We have begun to compile a series of videos to help all users of our products. We will keep adding instructional videos on a regular basis, though if you are a current customer and there is a particular element you … Continue reading →

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XLCubed V5

Posted on March 13, 2009 by XLCubedBlog

Yesterday we released version 5 of XLCubed. V5 offers continued enhancements across the product set including a completely new web interface, embedded pdf printing, and further extension of our interactive ‘Visual Grids’ to include all MicroChart chart types.     … Continue reading →

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