A common question that I get when introducing the map feature in SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services is why the map gallery is limited to maps of the United States and individual states in the US. The reason as I’ve heard it explained is that the political boundaries for other countries are sometimes in [...]

If you’re a business intelligence practitioner like me, you might have certain expectations from a book entitled Business Intelligence Success Factors: Tools for Aligning your Business in the Global Economy. You might think it contains lots of practical examples for implementing BI projects. Or if you’re someone who uses (or wants to use) BI in [...]

Winding down on the authoring process of my latest book, Building Integrated Business Intelligence Solutions with SQL Server 2008 R2 & Office 2010, I decided to look at my calendar to see what I should work on next, and saw that I have a lot of presentations to prepare! Here’s a list of events planned [...]