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SQL Saturday Atlanta will take place on May 21st. Your humble correspondent will present "What's New for BI in SQL Server 2016" scheduled to start at 8:15 AM. Join me for an hour of coverage of my favorite SQL Server 2016 new BI features. Get your questions answered. SQL Server 2016 delivers many data analytics and information management new features and enhancements. Join this session…
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In a previous blog, I reviewed the claims that Tableau made in their "10 Ways Power BI Falls Short" presentation. To be fair to Power BI, in this blog I'll list 10 areas where I believe Tableau falls short compared to Power BI. Overall In this section, I'll review some general implementation and cost considerations that in my opinion make Power BI more compelling choice than…
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Scenario: Suppose you have two source tables coming from different data sources, such as Excel or text files, as shown in in the screenshot below. The Master table has a DateStart and DateEnd columns that denotes a date range for ID. The Details table has some date (and possibly time) values. You need to look up the ID column from the Master table where the…
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We have a great new enhancement to the Power BI Gateway – Enterprise that just came out! Many organizations are planning hybrid Power BI solutions where report and dashboard definitions are deployed to Power BI but remain in SSAS Multidimensional or Tabular semantic models on premises. At the same time, many organizations have run into the dreaded Windows security issues when the user principle name…
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As I mentioned in my blog "Why Business Like Yours Choose Power BI Over SiSense", expect attack from other vendors to intensify as they find themselves fighting an increasingly uphill battle against Power BI. As we've seen, Power BI has indeed disrupted their sales cycles. In this blog, I'm reviewing the "10 Ways Power BI Falls Short" presentation that Tableau has published on their site. Tableau,…
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Microsoft announced that SQL Server 2016 will become generally available on June 1st. The BI edition is gone and I don't think that many people would miss it because of its client-based CAL licensing. I'd like to thank Microsoft of listening to feedback from MVPs and community and for including Tabular in Standard Edition! For more details, take a look at the SQL Server 2016 Editions…
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Excel users are familiar with drilling through details by double-clicking a cell in a PivotTable report or PivotChart data point. Power BI has silently added a similar feature to let users see the level of detail behind a chart data point in both Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service. This option can be enabled per visual by turning on the See Records option in…
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As promised at the Microsoft Data Insight Summit last month, Power BI row-level security for published Power BI Desktop files (aka as cloud models) is now in preview. This means that soon you'll be able to restrict the data that the user is authorized to see based on the user identity. If you have experience in Power Pivot, you'd probably recall that Power Pivot doesn't…
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I'm excited to announce the second Prologika Power BI Showcase - Supply Chain that was added to the Power BI Partner portal! It's based on the work we did for the world's largest package delivery company and a provider of supply chain management solutions. Prologika designed a Power BI-based solution for a Fortune 50 organization to consolidate data sources and customer service reports and make them available on…
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MS BI fans, join me for the next Atlanta MS BI Group meeting on Apr 25th and 6:30 PM. Paco Gonzalez will present the Azure Internet of Things(IoT) and I'll show you Power BI Embedded Azure cloud service. SolidQ will sponsor the event. Don't forget to RSVP at atlantabi.sqlpass.org so we can't an accurate headcount. Rate this meeting http://aka.ms/PUGSurvey, PUG ID: 104 Presentation: Introduction to…
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