By Mary Branscombe – The goal of Power BI (and any business intelligence tool) is to replace the hunches and opinions businesses use to make decisions with facts based on data. That means the insights in that data have to be … Continue reading →
Business Intelligence unlike standard reporting does not have to be rerun every time you want to change a reporting parameter. If you want to look at year to date or quarter to date or “drill” into a record to see … Continue reading →
This is a excellent tool. Bringing it closer to home would be great but was cost prohibitive. Apparently, not anymore with the new shared architecture. It used to cost $5,000 a month and run on dedicated hardware; now it’s a … Continue reading →
This is a fantastic tool. New releases with additional features come out almost weekly. Not only do we use it through out the organization, we just completed our first client project this week building an “Open Order Dashboard” which rotates … Continue reading →
I may have missed it but just in case consider using the HTTPS connection to encrypt your out-bound data communications. There are a lot malcontents out there that would love nothing more than to intercept your information. By Gandhali Joshi … Continue reading →
By Frederic Lardinois – AI and data analytics company Databricks today announced the launch of SQL Analytics, a new service that makes it easier for data analysts to run their standard SQL queries directly on data lakes. And with that, enterprises can … Continue reading →
By Liam Bastick – In Power BI Desktop, a dataset is defined by a single query that specifies what data to include and how to transform it. The query is made up of related steps that build upon one another … Continue reading →
By Louis Columbus – These and many other fascinating insights are from SoftwareReview’s latest customer rankings published today in their Emotional Footprint Report on Business Intelligence. You can download both Emotional Footprint and Data Quadrant reports from here. The report is based entirely on … Continue reading →
As I mentioned in yesterdays (whose paying attention) post Microsoft’s announcement this week on the removal of SharePoint 2010 workflows from SharePoint Online tenants makes it more important than ever to get acquainted with the Power Platform. Especially Power Automate … Continue reading →
Darya Efimova – It’s been a while since data exploded globally, and the vital necessity for businesses to deal with it is in no way surprising. Many look up to data-oriented enterprises, such as Google and Facebook, and follow suit. … Continue reading →