CLARIFIED for Clarizen version 1.3 released

With great enthusiasm we introduce version 1.3 of the Analysis and Reporting extension Clarified for Clarizen to you. Working closely with Clarizen, BI Architects we developed this extension for Clarizen customers who require extensive analysis of their Clarizen project data and/or in need of extensive reporting features including dashboards and KPI's.

CLARIFIED for Clarizen enables you to analyze your Clarizen data across all projects, using various criteria from a management point of view (highlights, KPI’s) or with detailed views for specific projects (Trends, Earned value, CPI, SPI, Resource Utilization etc.). All this within just a few mouse clicks. You can think of criteria like: Customers, Employees, Time periods, Project types and Task types.

In the 1.3 version of CLARIFIED for Clarizen we have improved and speed up the process of importing and refreshing  Clarizen data in the backend. In the frontend we have simplified our information model by gathering the date dimensions and adding the measure group Resource Capacity.

If you are interested in using CLARIFIED for Clarizen please visit and register at clarified.biz. After registration you can use the full functionality of Clarified for Clarizen free for 30 days to make sure you like it. We don't ask your for a credit card when you sign up, so if you don't like it, there's nothing to cancel. And because Clarified is Cloud Based, there is nothing to install!

On the Clarified.biz website, entrance to the Clarified portal, you will find information about the product, dashboard samples and videos on how to use CLARIFIED for Clarizen. When logged in, you will have access to the standard dashboards, Clarified Excel file, the online manuals and frequently asked questions.
For more information on Clarified for Clarizen, please visit the Clarified.biz website or contact us via info@bi-architects.nl.

Hermann-Otto Israël
Customer Success Manager
BIA Architects

SSMS – Change Select Top 1000 Rows or Edit Top 200 Rows

In SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) it is possible to select the Top 1000 or edit the Top 200 rows in a table or view. When you right on a table or view in SSMS, you will see the Context menu below.

In this Context menu you can:
1. Select Top 1000 Rows
2. Edit Top 200 Rows

The idea behind this is for performance reasons. But what if you want to display all the records, or edit row 250 for example? In SSMS it is possible to change these default settings. To modify the “Select Top 1000 Rows” or “Edit Top 200 Rows”  settings do the following:

1. In SSMS click on  Tools | Options
2. Select SQL Server Object Explorer . Now you should be able to see the Table and View Options
3. To select/edit All records from a table or view, specify a value of 0 to return all rows.

SSMS Tools Pack (free)

Recently I wanted to export a configuration table with data from Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, through generating "INSERT INTO" scripts. Because it was a big (and frustating) search in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to get this done, I went looking for a tool that could simplify this.

After some googling, I found SSMS Tools Pack. SSMS Tools Pack is an add-in for Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, Denali CTP3 and their respective Express versions. It is a very useful tool, and free to use.

Download
Go to http://www.ssmstoolspack.com/Download

Features
Click here to view all the features of SSMS Tool Pack.