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MS BI fans, join us for the next Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group meeting on Monday, June 25th at 6:30 PM. Your humble correspondent will share 10 ways Power BI can help augment your existing or envisioned Power BI strategy. DevScope will sponsor the meeting and demo their PowerBI Robots offering. For more details, visit our group page and don't forget to RSVP (use the RSVP survey on…
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UPDATE 11/15/2018: Common Data Service for Analytics is superseded by Power BI dataflows. Find the updated review here. In a previous blog I discussed the Common Data Service for Apps (CDS for Apps). I explained that CDS for Apps is more suitable for OLTP-type applications, which is why its main client is PowerApps apps saving data in normalized tables. Since good things shouldn't come alone,…
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Power BI churns out new features fast but not all features are available everywhere. As one of the most confusing aspects of Power BI, feature availability depends on the data acquisition method (data import vs live connections) and across Power BI product offerings (Power BI Desktop, Power BI Service, Power BI Report Server, and Power BI Mobile). Microsoft has left gaps in the product documentation…
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Standing room today for my presentation on the same subject at SQL Saturday Atlanta. I uploaded the slides to the event site and to my LinkedIn profile page. This week was packed with training events. One more event to organize for the Atlanta Power BI Group on Monday...
Read article MS BI fans, join us for the next Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group meeting on Monday, May 21st at 6:30 PM. Paco González will take us into a deep dive into Microsoft Cognitive Services and how to integrate them with Power BI. SolidQ will sponsor the meeting. And your humble correspondent will introduce you to Power BI Premium incremental refresh. For more details, visit our…
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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 the Microsoft Common Data Service for Apps (CDS for Apps) as a cloud ODS by Business and for Business. Officially introduced in 2016 and running on Azure SQL Database, CDS for Apps is now the…
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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 Microsoft Technology Center in Alpharetta! Kudos to Eric Flamm and Michael Folarinde for the great job proctoring the event. Here is some feedback that the attendees shared in the post-event survey: "I was frustrated and confused with…
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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, thus claiming that Sisense is a better choice with larger datasets because business users don't have to use professional tools (Visual Studio) or deploy to external servers. Things have changed in Power BI since then.…
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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 user can't see and filter the detail data, even the most sophisticated self-service BI tool cannot be trusted. And since everyone knows how to do this in Excel, why should they use other tools? To me,…
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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, 2875 Old Milton Pkwy, Atlanta, Georgia, 30009. Prologika will deliver two presentations: Master Data Management with SQL Server 2016 MDS According to the Top Business Intelligence Trends 2018 survey by BI-Survey.com and based on feedback…
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