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. Think of […]
Thank you to everyone attending the Power BI workshop by Prologika yesterday. We had another great turnout with more than 50 people from 30+ companies attending the event at the […]
In my “Why Business Like Yours Choose Power BI Over Sisense” blog, I discussed how Sisense seeks a competitive advantage by offering a user-friendly designer connected to the their ElastiCube, […]
Everyone has a different opinion about what self-service BI should be. But to many people the journey starts and stops with Microsoft Excel. Excel is the self-service BI nirvana. If the […]
SQL Saturday Atlanta is a must-attend, full-day event for the community, by the community. This year SQL Saturday will take place on May 19th at Gwinnett Technical College – Alpharetta, […]
After a few years of extensive development and beta testing, Tableau announced its data preparation tool (Tableau Prep) for “redefining your data prep experience”. Previously, Tableau relied on other vendors, […]
MS BI fans, join us for the next Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group meeting on Monday, April 30th at 6:30 PM. Patrick LeBlanc will do a deep dive into Power […]
Analysis Services normally requires a live connection between the client and server. If the connection is interrupted, the server considers that the client has lost interest and cancels the running […]
None of the Multidimensional and Tabular semantic models I’ve implemented required scaling out, but I understand that some scenarios might benefit from it, such as B2B or B2C reporting. Depends […]
Object-level security (OLS) is a frequently requested security feature when implementing semantic models. For example, a current project disallows some sales persons to see sensitive measures, such as Margin and […]
