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Welcome (back) to my new (old) site

Posted on December 14, 2017 by Tom Huguelet

Somewhere around 2013 I was so awed by Microsoft’s Office 365 offering that I went “all-in” and moved my website to the then-nascent platform. Earlier this year the powers-that-be “sunsetted” the public-facing website portion of that product, so here we … Continue reading →

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MDX for Date Formatting

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Tom Huguelet

This is a simple MDX snippet, but it comes up often enough that I think it’s worth a blog entry. A frequent question that comes up is how to format dates for display in MDX, especially in the parameter boxes … Continue reading →

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Business Intelligence Roundtable: Enrich your analytics with Open Data

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Tom Huguelet

Tuesdays topic was Business Intelligence Roundtable: Enrich your analytics with Open Data. Slide deck is posted here.

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Interesting social media experiment: Fast Company, the influence project

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Tom Huguelet

Interesting social media experiment: Fast Company, the influence project:

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June 15th, 2010 – ITA Roundtable slides

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Tom Huguelet

Slides are linked here. Topic was “late-breaking news from the MS BI Conference”

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Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference Recap – Day 1

Posted on June 14, 2010 by Tom Huguelet

Well, the grandiose plan was to blog each session as they happened, but between keeping my existing clients happy and keeping up with all the events of TechEd/MSBIC, that did not happen. I was really on the fence about attending … Continue reading →

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#MSBIC Keynote

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Tom Huguelet

Ted KummertMS Uses BI to ship, track defects. Recollection of BI Conference 2008 – the fairy tale. Managed self-service business intelligence. State of BI today 20% have BI. There are many things that end users should be able to solve … Continue reading →

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TechEd Keynote – brief comments & impressions

Posted on June 7, 2010 by Tom Huguelet

I am keeping these brief on purpose – just my impressions in 5 sentences or less (I hope). Bob Muglia Cloud Apparently there is this thing called the cloud . . . Say it:  Cloud, cloud, cloud, cloud. In the … Continue reading →

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Creating great courseware

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Tom Huguelet

I was recently surveyed by Microsoft about the Microsoft Learning: Microsoft Certified Trainer program. One of the questions was about the Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC). I’ve been using MOC in one form or another for about 15 years. Although I was only answering a question in the moment, I … Continue reading →

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