Atlanta BI fans, please join us in person for our next meeting on Monday, October 5th at 18:30 ET. Sivakumar (Director Digital, Data, and Analytics at Clarkston Consulting) will share best practices from the field on how to build a Fabric medallion architecture. Prologika will sponsor this meeting. For more details and sign up, visit our group page. Delivery: In-person Level: Advanced Food: Pizza and…
My “Open Semantic Interchange (OSI)” post was an intro to the this relatively new standard. Fast forward, OSI was accepted into the Apache Incubator in June 2026 and is now known as Apache Ossie. Lo and behold, Microsoft is now prominently listed on ossie.apache.org/ecosystem. In fact, Microsoft engineers authored a bidirectional Power BI / Fabric converter that merged into the project on September 16, 2026.…
Snowflake is an increasingly popular option for data warehousing. One nice Snowflake feature is the ability to configure a table to save its data in Iceberg file format in the Snowflake own managed storage or external storage, including S3, GCS, ADLS Gen 2, and OneLake. As I wrote in the post “Give Me Your Data!”, Fabric supports shortcuts to Iceberg tables, in which case the…
Ask a business user where they want to work with the data, and Excel would probably top the list. Regardless of how hard we try to lure users away from it, Excel remains the endpoint of self-service BI for many organizations. I have clients who have built custom apps or purchased Excel add-ins simply to get data into Excel—or manipulate it once it gets there.…
Atlanta BI fans, please join us in person for our next meeting on Tuesday, September 8th at 18:30 ET. Eric Hood (Center of Excellence lead for Fabric Planning - PowerTable at Lumel) will introduce you to newly announced Fabric Planning, which brings enterprise planning directly into Microsoft Fabric and unifies analytics, planning, and decision making on a single trusted data foundation. Lumel will sponsor this…
