Business Performance Management (BPM) is a methodology to help the company predict its performance. An integral part of a BPM strategy is creating and monitoring a scorecard with Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). In this newsletter, I’ll discuss how the newly released Power BI Goals can help you augmenet your BPM strategy. But before that, I’d like to share my excitement that Microsoft have recently awarded…
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Amidst the COVID pandemic, the Houston Health Department (HHD) had another predicament to tackle. With lab results accumulating rapidly at one million cases per month, the vendor system they used for capturing and analyzing COVID data couldn't keep up. In this newsletter, you'll learn how Prologika implemented a BI solution powered by SQL Server and Power BI to solve technology challenges, and deliver fast and…
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I hope you're enjoying the holidays. In this newsletter, I'll discuss a very important enhancement to Power BI that lets business users extend semantic models. But before I get to it, a quick announcement. I'm putting the finishing touches of the sixth edition of my "Applied Microsoft Power BI"! It should be available on Amazon in the first days of 2021. I've been updating this…
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Cloud deployments are the norm nowadays for new software projects, including BI. And Azure Synapse Analytics shows a great potential for modern cloud-based data analytics platform. Here are some high-level pros and cons to keep in mind for implementing Azure Synapse-centered solutions that I harvested from my real-life projects and workshops. What's to Like There is plenty to like in Azure Synapse which is…
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More and more organizations are switching to Microsoft Teams mostly for online meetings. However, Microsoft Teams can deliver much more than that and it will be unjust to compare it with other popular meetings apps. In this newsletter you'll learn how Prologika helped a public school district gain important insights from Microsoft Teams. Learn more and try an interactive Power BI report in the related…
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Do you know that according to Gartner, at least five of the top 10 technology trends for 2020 will involve predictive analytics? And the third on the list is "democratization" to deliver it to non-specialists. With the growing demand for predictive analytics, Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) aims to simplify and democratize predictive analytics so business users can create their own predictive models. The promise of…
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Happy Holidays! I hope you're enjoying this special time of the year. A few months ago, I did an assessment for a large company that was advised by an undisclosed source that they should use their Dynamics Financials and Operations (F&O) system as a data warehouse. Recently, I came across a similar wish but this time to use SAP as EDW. Can we do this?…
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We all need to share. But until a couple of months ago, a Power BI training or assessment wouldn't be complete unless I got hammered on the Power BI sharing limitations. Fortunately, Microsoft has addressed most of these and I have now a much better story to tell. And this is the subject of this newsletter. Quo vadis, Power BI Sharing? Power BI sharing road…
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After learning how to model the data properly (the most important skill), DAX would be the next hurdle in your self-service or organizational BI journey. You won't get far in Microsoft BI without DAX. This letter shares a tip on how to identify DAX performance bottlenecks by using a recent feature in Power BI called Performance Analyzer. Learning DAX Before I get to Performance Analyzer,…
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At least five of the top 10 IT trends in 2019 identified by Gartner involve machine learning in one form or the other. The list includes autonomous things, augmented analytics, AI-driven development, digital twins, and immersive experience. Gartner also predicts that by 2022, at least 40 percent of new application development projects will have machine learning (ML). Therefore, it's not surprising to see vendors making…
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