Best Practices for Performance Testing
Credit: tucowsinc.com This week I set out to add performance testing to a project I’ve been working on. Why performance test? The main benefit is that we can hone in on when one of the changes we’ve...
View ArticleThis Week in Tech News
This week in tech news: Harvard medical school rakes in a cool $1 million to study NFL injuries and Foodspotting app is acquired for $10 million. But nothing beats the priceless price of putting your...
View ArticleEvents: Spring 2013 Career Fairs
Coming to a college near you. We’re Looking for swashbuckling, creative college grads with object-oriented programming under the belts, a penchant for amassing new skills, and who don’t mind a few...
View ArticleIs Microsoft Excel the Next Great Business Intelligence Tool?
With Microsoft’s release of Office 2013, now fully equipped with features such as PowerPivot and PowerView, news outlets and blogs are abuzz speculating this is a push to make Excel the next Business...
View ArticleThe Mobile Bandwagon: the BYOD Generation is All In, Your IT Dept Not So Much
Everyone’s jumping on the mobile bandwagon, especially the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) generation. Advertisers are trying to harness its ability to be in front of this constantly connected audience,...
View ArticleWhat’s new in OfficeWriter 8.4
PIVOT TABLES ARE HERE! OfficeWriter 8.4 packs a powerful punch with exciting new features, most notable of which is ExcelApplication support for PivotTables in OOXML (XLSX, XLSM) files. ExcelWriter...
View ArticleWatch What’s New in OfficeWriter 8.4′s PivotTable API
Take a walk through of the new PivotTable functionality in the release of OfficeWriter 8.4. To access the new API, download an OfficeWriter Evaluation. To view a complete list of features and fixes in...
View ArticlePivotTables Now Available within OfficeWriter 8.4
WATERTOWN, MA (February 12, 2013) - SoftArtisans announced the addition of PivotTables to their OfficeWriter product today. OfficeWriter 8.4 is now available for download. Included in this new...
View ArticleWEBINAR Feb 22nd: PivotTables in OfficeWriter 8.4
Have you heard? OfficeWriter 8.4 with PivotTable support is here! You’re invited to take a first look at the new PivotTable API within OfficeWriter 8.4 in this interactive webinar. Our Senior Sales...
View ArticleHappy Valentine’s Day from the SA Crew
Just because we less-than-3 you (and Excel). Click here to view the video on YouTube. See how we built it and how to make your own cookies in Excel by visiting the original post.
View ArticleHow to select slicer values with VBA
Hello, everyone, and welcome to another edition of Pitan Pivot Mage! Today we will cover how to select slicer values with VBA. This is especially useful if you have a report generated by...
View ArticleNew! [Webinar] PivotTables in OfficeWriter 8.4
Because we had such a great response from the first webinar, we’re opening more seats and hosting this PivotTable webinar again. Take a first look at the new PivotTable API within OfficeWriter 8.4 in...
View ArticleStories from the WIT Trenches: Melissa Pickering
[This is the twelfth in a series of posts exploring the personal stories of real women in technology. Every woman in tech overcame, at the very least, statistical odds to be here; this blog series aims...
View ArticleThe Robots Can Have the World, Just Let Me Keep Drinking in It (a SXSW...
Headed to SXSW this year? Well, you’re in good company. So is our partner company Riparian Data. Not only are they unveiling their new email app, Gander, they’re on a mission to synthesize the latest...
View ArticleWindows Azure and OfficeWriter
We’re taking OfficeWriter to the cloud. In these videos you’ll see how OfficeWriter runs on Windows Azure. Taking our exisiting OfficeWriter web sample projects, Andrew Brust from Blue Badge Insights...
View ArticleBig Data and OfficeWriter
We partnered with Andrew Brust from Blue Badge Insights to integrate OfficeWriter with Hadoop and Big Data. Taking existing OfficeWriter sample projects, Andrew discusses how he created two demos...
View ArticleStaff Picks: Apps to Use, News to Read on the Commute
Once a week I snoop around the office, bothering my coworkers with questions on what they’re reading, listening to, consuming, or any other random inquiries I’d like to subject them to. Sometimes they...
View Article[Webinar] Making Reporting Easier with SSRS Designer Ribbon
With data sets tied to different data sources and multiple people handling one report, the process of building a report can get messy. OfficeWriter’s built-in Designer Ribbon makes it easier to...
View ArticleMy Beef with Tech Acronyms
Credit: itspchan.files.wordpress.com With mouthfuls like Application Service Providers and SQL Server Reporting Services (thank you, Microsoft) floating around the tech blogosphere, it’s no wonder why...
View Article2013 Business Intelligence Trends
Credit: e-bcorp.com A few weeks ago we posed the question of whether or not Excel had the staying power to be the next great Business Intelligence tool. An overwhelming percentage of readers said yes....
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