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Marco Russo

Marco Russo is a consultant and trainer in Business Intelligence and software development, recently certified as SSAS Maestro. He has particular competence and experience of BI solutions in sectors like financial services (including complex OLAP designs in banking area), manufacturing and commercial distribution. Marco wrote "The many-to-many revolution" about multidimensional modeling, is one of the authors of the SQLBI Methodology and of the books "Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel 2010: Give Your Data Meaning", Expert Cube Development with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services" and "Programming Microsoft LINQ in .NET 4". He has been a speaker at previously editions of SQLBits, PASS Summit and Microsoft BI Conference (co-located with TechEd NA).
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Sessions

This dense hour of presentation will cover design techniques to leverage cube features that also consider possible maintenance of the database structure over time.
Introduce the features of BISM (BI Semantic Model), the new engine that will be available in Analysis Services "Denali".
In this session we will introduce the new modeling capabilities of Vertipaq, showing how the same scenarios can be modeled in both Multidimensional (MOLAP) and Tabular (Vertipaq), looking at how to enable your data warehouse to support both.
In this session you will see how to create a BISM Tabular data model from scratch, providing the required metadata in order to improve user experience navigating the data model by using client tools like Excel PivotTable and Power View.

Blog posts RSS

SQLIO analysis on Excel charts 08 May 2012
I tend to use twitter when I have to notify an interesting link or tool. But sometimes a blog post (even if short) is better, because allows me to easily find it on search engines (Bing/Google/whatever) months or years later. I know PInterest is growing these days, but the blog indexed on search ...

Registrations Open for SSAS Maestro in July 2012 #ssasmaestro #sass 07 May 2012
Registrations are now open for the SSAS Maestro course in July 2012, which will take place in Milan (Italy). I introduced this course in a previous blog post and I’m not going to repeat all the details here. I just want to highlight a few updates, the biggest one is related to the cost of the ...

May Schedule of SSAS #Tabular Workshop for US & Europe 02 May 2012
As you might have read in the previous post, May is a busy month for all the editions of the SSAS Tabular Workshop. We’ll start with an online edition next week in a time slot that should be good for US and other countries in that time zones. Then there will be many other countries in our road show ...

Order of Evaluation in CALCULATE and Clever Hierarchy Handling in #dax 02 May 2012
After the first two editions of the SSAS Tabular Workshop, I and Alberto had some time to flush some of the pending activities. We published two articles: Clever Hierarchy Handling in DAX: DAX is not a hierarchy-friendly language, especially if you have a MDX background. If you have to ...

Last minute update #ssas #tabular community event in Amsterdam on April 16 13 Apr 2012
We finally have the registration website for the community event about Tabular in Analysis Services in Amsterdam on April 16 evening that I introduced in my previous post - don't miss it, the registration are open (and limited!) at:http://passnl-april2012.eventbrite.com/This is really a ...