To compete more effectively with Power BI, Tableau acquired a database technology called HyPer. Like the Microsoft xVelocity in-memory technology (formerly known as VertiPaq), which powers Analysis Services Tabular, Power […]
Scenario: You’ve created a dashboard-looking Power BI report that has a filter. Most visuals on a report page need to show only data for the selected filter but some must […]
Planning to attend the PASS Summit this year? The PASS Summit is the go-to conference for data professionals that will take place November 6-9, in Seattle, WA. You have two […]
Scenario: You want to overwrite the formatting of some field in a Power BI Visual, such as in the case of showing the field in one visual with decimals and […]
In my “Understanding Dates in Power BI Quick Measures” blog, I mentioned that having a Date table is a best practice but Quick Measures didn’t support it. Fortunately, the February […]
Scenario: You have a concatenated field stored in a table. For example, a medical claim might have several denial reasons. Instead of representing this as a Many-to-Many relationship, you’ve decided […]
A while back I wrote about the ROI for BI and this blog happened to be one of my post popular blogs. I’m a big fan of a BI semantic […]
A week ago, I wrote that Power BI sharing improved by giving you the ability to include specific reports and dashboards in an app. Recall that that there are three […]
MS BI fans, join us for the next Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group meeting on January 29th at 6:30 PM. Julie Smith will hack sweet reports in Power BI. Innovative […]
One Power BI aspect that I’m not crazy about is sharing. It’s my experience that most organization could benefit from a simplified sharing where users or groups are added to […]
