According to Gartner, one main data analytics trend this year and beyond will be predictive analytics. “Increasing competition, cost and regulatory pressures will motivate business leaders to adopt more prescriptive […]
During the Day 1 keynote at the 2014 BA Conference, Microsoft committed to BI on your terms. They said that all new features will be eventually available both on premises […]
I hope you are enjoying the beginning of the spring. The focus of this newsletter is self-service BI with Microsoft Power BI. But before I start, I strongly encourage those […]
As I’m enjoying my vacation in tropical Cancun, Mexico, I hope you’ve been enjoying the holidays and planning your BI initiatives in 2014. Speaking of planning, you may have heard […]
I hope you had a great summer. The chances are that your organization has a centralized data repository, such as ODS or a data warehouse, but you might not use […]
The summer is finally here. With everything coming to fruition, there are exiting news in the Microsoft BI land, the most important of which I’d like to recap in this […]
Implementing Dashboards Many organizations are considering digital dashboards for a quick 1000-foot view of the company performance. In this newsletter, I’ll review at a high level the options available in […]
What’s New in Excel 2013 and SharePoint 2013 BI Microsoft released Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 in October 2012. The logical question you might have is how the latest versions […]
Big Data Big Data is getting a lot of attention nowadays. My definition of Big Data is a dataset (or a collection of datasets) that is so large that exceeds […]
Due to popular demand, we’ve added two more classes to our training curriculum. Applied SQL Fundamentals – This 2-day instructor led course provides you with the necessary skills to query […]
