Prologika Newsletter Fall 2017
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 […]
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Power BI vs Qlik Presentation
Mark your calendar for the next meeting of our Atlanta MS and Power BI Group on September 25th when we will compare Power BI and Qlik. Presentation: Did Qlik run […]
Processing Tabular from Exotic Clients
Processing Tabular models from SSMS or .NET client apps is pretty straightforward. For example, you can connect with SSMS and issue processing commands through the UI or via TMSL. You […]
Power BI What-if Analysis
Veteran Excel users might have used the Excel What-if feature that let you try several different sets of values in one or more formulas to explore various outcomes (scenarios). The […]
Power BI vs. Pyramid
I’ve never thought I’d see this one coming but today I got a marketing email from Pyramid Analytics (previously an ardent Microsoft partner) citing a head-to-head comparison with Power BI. […]
Creating PBI Detail Reports
Related to the previous blog, let’s show how to create a detail report in Power BI that mimics an Excel PivotTable report in a flattened layout. Consider the report below. […]
Considerations for Detail Reports
Nobody likes watching a report spinny. Interactive detail reports that perform well from an Analysis Services semantic layer have been the bane of my BI career. A “detail report” is […]
MVP For 14 Years!
Got awarded for Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) – Data Platform again. This will make my 14th consecutive year to be recognized by Microsoft for my expertise and contributions to […]
What’s ROI for BI?
I often ask prospects if they’ve done any estimates of the value that the envisioned BI solution would bring to them. The Microsoft Solution Framework actually recommends partners do this […]
Running ETL on AlwaysOn Primary Replica
Scenario: Consider a SQL Server configured for AlwaysOn Availability Groups where a set of databases can fail over to another node. You have SSIS jobs and you created them on […]
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