Liked this very much. Even though I have been involved with BI for a long time, I am relatively new to the MS tool stack and this is a really helpful overview, thnx!
Loved your presentation, thank you for creating and sharing it! It may be worth mentioning that PowerPivot (the vertipaq engine) did not come from the blue (or green), but really from Analysis Services. It shipped initially only in Excel, but it was 100% analysis services.
What a great presentation! Excellent stroll down memory lane. I wrote a book with Dan English about PowerView back in the day and PowerView got scrapped within days of the book's release. LOL!
Thank you, it was fun to put it all together. It's unreal the velocity of change with product improvements and changes. The right side of my primary diagram would even be a little bit different today versus when I put it together a few months ago.
Things just went berserk around 2022, in a good way! I can totally relate to everything from SQL 7 until it had just started going Azure and then the advancement is exponential each year! Very informative reference video, Greg. Thank you!
great presentation and thank you for providing this visual roadmap. even though i've experienced all of these technologies first hand since sql 7, it's actually a good reminder of how the individual components have evolved and now converged into fabric.
Great job on compiling everything. I'd like to offer a small suggestion if that's all right. Engine - VertiPaq 1. a box for VertiPaq which connected with 1.1 PowerPivot 2010 Add-In for Excel 2010 1.2 Analysis Services Tabular Mode 1.3 SQL Server 2012 - Columnstore storage VertiPaq rename to xVelocity in 2012 Acquired 2. Maximal Innovative Intelligence which is connected 2.1 Microsoft Data Analyzer (2002) (for OLAP)
Oh how I wanted the decomp tree to have colors... but alas MS locked the code and even the old Proclarity people were not permitted to implement it for us! I may still have a performance point book or two around. It was a tough use case for sure. Thanks for walking us older folks along the trail.
Agreed! I think the newer Decomp Tree in PBI can change colors based on KPIs, but I agree that the old PerformancePoint version was a step down form ProClarity.
Superb! Thanks so much for connecting all the dots, and making the Fabric strategy and roadmap so clear.
Great content here. Filled in a lot of gaps that I have thought about from the last few years.
Liked this very much. Even though I have been involved with BI for a long time, I am relatively new to the MS tool stack and this is a really helpful overview, thnx!
Great presentation. Congratulations.
I've always liked to "sense" the evolution of IT offerings (software products and services)
Loved your presentation, thank you for creating and sharing it!
It may be worth mentioning that PowerPivot (the vertipaq engine) did not come from the blue (or green), but really from Analysis Services. It shipped initially only in Excel, but it was 100% analysis services.
Thank you! I've added a note to the description and the related LinkedIn post.
What a great presentation! Excellent stroll down memory lane. I wrote a book with Dan English about PowerView back in the day and PowerView got scrapped within days of the book's release. LOL!
Thank you, it was fun to put it all together. It's unreal the velocity of change with product improvements and changes. The right side of my primary diagram would even be a little bit different today versus when I put it together a few months ago.
Things just went berserk around 2022, in a good way! I can totally relate to everything from SQL 7 until it had just started going Azure and then the advancement is exponential each year! Very informative reference video, Greg. Thank you!
Very nice summary, thank you for taking the time to share it!
Crazy to think about how fast this has happened
Great presentation, thanks
great presentation and thank you for providing this visual roadmap. even though i've experienced all of these technologies first hand since sql 7, it's actually a good reminder of how the individual components have evolved and now converged into fabric.
great presentation that cuts through all of the marketing nonsense and shows real lineage
Great job on compiling everything. I'd like to offer a small suggestion if that's all right.
Engine - VertiPaq
1. a box for VertiPaq which connected with
1.1 PowerPivot 2010 Add-In for Excel 2010
1.2 Analysis Services Tabular Mode
1.3 SQL Server 2012 - Columnstore storage
VertiPaq rename to xVelocity in 2012
Acquired
2. Maximal Innovative Intelligence which is connected
2.1 Microsoft Data Analyzer (2002) (for OLAP)
Excellent info that I didn't find anywhere on the web. Thank you! At some point I plan to update the presentation and I'll include this content.
Great job! Thank you!
Good stuff. Thank you.
omg you are genious - danke!
Thanks for the insights, how much of the Fabric promised land is real vs roadmap/vision?
It's all there but some parts are more mature than others. This roadmap should help with any questions on this topic: aka.ms/fabricroadmap
Oh how I wanted the decomp tree to have colors... but alas MS locked the code and even the old Proclarity people were not permitted to implement it for us! I may still have a performance point book or two around. It was a tough use case for sure. Thanks for walking us older folks along the trail.
Agreed! I think the newer Decomp Tree in PBI can change colors based on KPIs, but I agree that the old PerformancePoint version was a step down form ProClarity.