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Prologika Newsletter Spring 2019 (Two New and Powerful Power BI Machine Learning Features)
March 17, 2019 / No Comments »
At least five of the top 10 IT trends in 2019 identified by Gartner involve machine learning in one form or the other. The list includes autonomous things, augmented analytics, AI-driven development, digital twins, and immersive experience. Gartner also predicts...
Prologika Newsletter Winter 2018 (Self-service Data Integration with Power BI Dataflows)
December 23, 2018 / No Comments »
Happy Holidays! I hope you're enjoying this special time of the year. According to Gartner, "poor data quality is hitting organizations where it hurts – to the tune of $15 million as the average annual financial cost in 2017". Data...
Prologika Newsletter Fall 2018 (How Power BI Changes Semantic Modeling)
September 20, 2018 / No Comments »
Semantics relates to discovering the meaning of the message behind the words. In the context of data and BI, semantics represents the user's perspective of data: how the end user views the data to derive knowledge from it. A modeler...
Prologika Newsletter Summer 2018 (Microsoft Common Data Services)
June 23, 2018 / No Comments »
Microsoft Common Data Services BI and data integration projects often benefit from an operational data source (ODS), whose benefits and design I discussed in my "Designing an Operational Data Store (ODS)" newsletter. A corporate ODS typically fall into the organizational...
Prologika Newsletter Spring 2018 (Extending Power BI with PowerApps and Flow)
March 11, 2018 / No Comments »
Extending Power BI with PowerApps and Flow With hundreds of vendors out there, choosing a BI tool isn't easy. If you've been following me for a while, you know that I love Power BI. One of the Power BI most...
Prologika Newsletter Winter 2017 (Sharing Reports with External Users)
December 23, 2017 / No Comments »
Sharing Reports with External Users Happy Holidays! I hope you're enjoying this special time of the year – time for sharing and giving. Speaking of sharing, how does your company share BI artifacts with your B2B or B2C partners? Do...
Prologika Newsletter Fall 2017 (Business Performance Management)
September 9, 2017 / No Comments »
Business Performance Management As I'm writing this newsletter, Florida and Georgia (I live in Atlanta, GA) are in the midst of planning for hurricane Irma, which is expected to be one of the most powerful Atlantic Ocean hurricanes in...
Prologika Newsletter Summer 2017 (What Does Power BI Premium Mean for You?)
June 17, 2017 / No Comments »
What Does Power BI Premium Mean for You? As I mentioned in my Spring newsletter "15 Reasons Why Microsoft is Leading the BI Space", Microsoft BI is enjoying resurgent interest from customers and industry observers, and Power BI gets lots...
Prologika Newsletter Spring 2017 (15 Reasons Why Microsoft is Leading the BI Space)
March 11, 2017 / 2 Comments »
15 Reasons Why Microsoft is Leading the BI Space I hope you're enjoying the beginning of 2017 and you're staying healthy and busy. It's been a hectic and exciting period for me. I published the second edition of my "Applied...
Prologika Newsletter Winter 2016 (Designing an Operational Data Store)
December 24, 2016 / No Comments »
Designing an Operational Data Store (ODS) I hope you're enjoying the holiday season. I wish you all the best in 2017! The subject of this newsletter came from a Planning and Strategy assessment for a large organization. Before I get...
