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First Screenshots of Microsoft’s Mobile BI Solution

November 20, 2012November 20, 2012 Chris Webb

It didn’t get much attention at the time (maybe because it was done at the Sharepoint Conference, and not at PASS… why?) but last week Microsoft gave the first public demos of its Mobile BI solution. I wasn’t there to see it but Just Blindbaek was and this morning he tweeted some pictures of what he saw. Some of you Microsoft BI enthusiasts might be interested to see them:
https://twitter.com/justblindbaek/status/270812739365130241/photo/1
https://twitter.com/justblindbaek/status/270785164689412096/photo/1

The codename seems to be ‘Project Helix’.

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Jason Horner – United States – Hi, my name is Jason I'm an international trainer and independent consultant. I spend most of my day helping clients solve business problems mostly in the Data and Advanced Analytics spaces. Sometimes this involves various and sundry cloud technologies including Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Data Lake Store, Azure Databricks, HDInsight and Azure SQL Database. I'm fluent in several languages including: SQL, C#, Python, and PowerShell. I'm a Microsoft Certified Master of SQL Server (MCM) and have been recognized for my technical excellence and evangelism efforts by Microsoft by being awarded the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for the last 5+ years. In my off hours I like to snowboard, karaoke, ride roller coasters and play arcade games

Jason Horner says:

November 21, 2012 at 12:18 am

This seems to me to have the same look and feel of the new Azure admin portal interface… Pretty cool stuff. Now can we get them to give SSRS some love 8)

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1. Graham – Edinburgh – Final boss of Press B to Parent. 1600 HP. Vulnerable to tequila.
  
  Graham says:
  
  November 21, 2012 at 3:01 pm
  
  To be honest, I think this IS part of the “SSRS love”. Given that PowerView (and possibly Helix too) is based on an underlying .RDL file, I wouldn’t be surprised if MS look to bring more of the features of SSRS into PowerView (or something like it – maybe a more advanced “developers” version). Just a gut feel mind, and I certainly don’t think they’ll abandon SSRS in its traditional form.
  
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2. Amy Lewis – Arizona
  
  Amy Lewis says:
  
  November 21, 2012 at 5:20 pm
  
  thanks for the info Chris! I wish they had announced it at the Summit as well. I found another link on Project Helix as well http://picnicerror.net/development/sql-server/microsoft-mobile-bi-project-helix-unveiled-2012-11-21/
  
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ToOsIK

ToOsIK says:

November 21, 2012 at 2:31 pm

looks very similar to Power View, they are really embracing the Silverlight interface!

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Perry says:

November 21, 2012 at 8:32 pm

To me it looks a bit like powerview? Powerview is good stuff, but looking at these screens it appears to me as an interface that is more mouse-optimized than optimized for touch…

But…. it’s just 2 screens and I am very interested in seeing more.

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