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It was my great pleasure to be selected as a speaker at this year’s Microsoft Project Conference. I had over 80 people attend my session so I was very happy but also nervous. It was my first time presenting at an event like this so it was a real pleasure. Microsoft organized a training session Read more about Microsoft Project Conference 2014[…]
If you regularly show ‘Actual Start‘ and ‘Actual Finish‘ dates alongside ‘Start‘ and ‘Finish‘ dates in order to show what has actually happened, here is a display technique that can save you some real estate in a view or report: placing a “P” next to the date to indicate that it is still planned or Read more about Show Start and Finish Dates with Planned and Actual Indicators[…]
So, you have a requirement to create a report on planned or actual cost data by month, by year, and your report requester would prefer that the column headings be formatted accounting-style, such as 2014_01, 2014_02, 2014_03, etc. No Problem! Place the following code into your SQL SELECT and GROUP BY statements, sum your cost Read more about Format Date Data for Accounting-Style “Year_Month#” Columns in Your SSRS Reports[…]
EPMA announced today that it is exhibiting at the Microsoft Project Conference 2014 on February 2-5 in Anaheim, California. Along with being an exhibitor they will also be hosting 5 informative sessions for attendees, covering product usage, best practices and a premier customer case study. The case study presented by both Saks Fifth Avenue and Read more about EPMA to Exhibit and Host 5 Session at Microsoft Project Conference 2014[…]
Well it has been another great year for us at EPMA. We have worked on some really interesting Projects and met some great clients that have made our jobs challenging, but at the same time very interesting. As a company we have helped hundreds of Project Managers to become familiar with the new and exciting Read more about A Great Year![…]
The end of 2013 is nipping at our heels; I find it hard to believe that yet another year has flown by, and I marvel at the great many things that we have accomplished at EPMA this year. If I still paid for things with written checks, then I would already start planning for the Read more about The Future of Project Portfolio Management (PPM) Technology[…]
Today we will be talking about a nasty error message that you may encounter when running certain SSRS reports that have a big list of multi choices parameters or a lot of parameters. That error message will might say something like Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object or in Read more about SSRS REPORTS ERROR WHEN LARGE NUMBER OF PARAMETERS ARE PASSED[…]
EPMA was recently named as one of the 2014 Best Companies to Work for in Texas. The awards program was created in 2006 and is a project of Texas Monthly, the Texas Association of Business (TAB), Texas SHRM and Best Companies Group. This statewide survey and awards program was designed to identify, recognize and honor Read more about EPMA Awarded One of the Best Companies to Work for in Texas 2014[…]