Lately, several clients have been curious what the difference is between PowerBI and Microsoft SSAS. These points are basic guidelines for business users, and not technical users. MS BI Blog has a more technically geared analysis of what your options …..
I’ve been working on a project that has a rather large model, composed of a couple larger datasets (260,000 rows x 10 columns) and (270,000 rows x 25 columns). So not large at all, nothing the tabular model in powerBI …..
Enterprise report delivery with powerBI One of the lessons most people will learn while enterprising cloud solutions is that you will trade off the cost, security, and convenience of a cloud application for the lack of control around it. Microsoft …..
Lately, in solving a simple problem, I’ve discovered something about powerBI that offers enormous potential. I found that the data model within powerBI is available as a tabular model in the cloud, leading to a visualized modelling environment that has …..
PowerBI has a unique foothold among the other BI tools operating in it’s space. Leveraging the dominance of the office suite of tools, power BI is literally standing on the shoulders of a giant. Consider the gartner magic quadrant for …..
So far in 2016, this seems to be a common sight; There seem to be endless articles prescribing the reasons the top goal has failed over the years. The technology is ahead of the business. The business didn’t know what …..
The analytics and business intelligence spaces are frequently poorly executed spaces. After more then a decade operating in this space, I believe I’m beginning to understand why. With a background in software engineering, and a dozen engagements in the financial, …..
I’ve recently finished reading Nate Silvers the signal and the noise. Trained as an engineer, now working as a data scientist, this book appealed to me. I figured that I could reap some important lessons that I might be able …..
Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.
-John Tukey
The plural of anecdote is not data. - John Myles White
As part of the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit EMEA in London, UK, Gartner invited Microsoft to participate in their bake-off event. This year’s topic was the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, and we dug into data around access to electricity and CO2 emissions.
We’re excited to announce that the Power BI tab in Microsoft Teams is getting a new action bar for interactive reports. The action bar enables users in the Power BI tab to use all the capabilities they have in the service when interactive reports are added to channels, chats, or meetings in Microsoft Teams. Read […]