Atlanta BI fans, please join us online for our next meeting on Monday, July 6th at 18:30 ET. James Serra (Data & AI Solution Architect at Microsoft) will show you how AI can transform our interaction with structured data, providing practical applications for enhanced automation, decision-making, and efficiency in data analysis. For more details and sign up, visit our group page. Delivery: Online via MS…
The June release of Power BI Desktop includes a preview of a new Power BI slicer configuration - Date Picker. It’s meant to solve two issues with report design. The first one is letting the user select a single date by configuring the Date Picker using the Manual selection. Yes, it took a decade, so we must appreciate the engineering effort to get this implemented,…
If Microsoft Fabric was the Statue of Liberty, the inscription would be “Give me your data”. Fabric is obsessed with owning the data when it makes sense and when it doesn’t. As I wrote before, this pattern was probably borrowed from Palantir and to align Fabric with the push for “modern” medallion architectures. Or, to establish a permanent dependency on Fabric… In this newsletter, I make…
An excited enterprise client came back from a conference where Snowflake delighted them with AI demos and semantic views built on Open Semantic Interchange (OSI) standard. Snowflake even went further to show how their Cortex Analyst tool returns deterministic AI answers. Naturally, given their existing investments in Snowflake data lake and ODS, the client questioned why we don’t build everything in Snowflake instead of bringing…
If Microsoft Fabric was the Statue of Liberty, the inscription would be “Give me your data”. Fabric is obsessed with owning the data when it makes sense and when it doesn’t. As I wrote before, this pattern was probably borrowed from Palantir and to align Fabric with the push for “modern” medallion architectures. Or, to establish a permanent dependency on Fabric… Auto-replicating data to Fabric…
