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Prologika Newsletter Winter 2024 (Strategies to combat memory pressure with large semantic models)
December 14, 2024 / No Comments »
I conducted recently an assessment for a client facing memory pressure in Power BI Premium. You know these pesky out of memory errors when refreshing a biggish dataset. They started with P1, moved to P2, and now are on P3...
Prologika Newsletter Fall 2024 (Using Generative AI to Create Code Copilots)
September 13, 2024 / No Comments »
When it comes to Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs), most people fall into two categories. The first is alarmists. These people are concerned about the negative connotations of indiscriminate usage of AI, such as losing their jobs or...
Prologika Newsletter Summer 2024 (Modern Data Warehouse Reloaded)
June 16, 2024 / No Comments »
I’ve written in the past about the dangers of blindly following “modern” data architectures (see the “Are you modern yet?” and “Data Lakehouse: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”) but a recent assessment inspired to me write about this...
Prologika Newsletter Spring 2024 (DAX Visual Calculations)
March 15, 2024 / No Comments »
One of the main goals and benefits of a semantic model is to centralize important business metrics and KPIs, such as Revenue, Profit, Cost, and Margin. In Power BI, we accomplish this by crafting and reusing DAX measures. Usually, implementing...
Prologika Newsletter Winter 2023 (Dataverse Link to Fabric)
December 18, 2023 / No Comments »
I’ve covered my first impression about Microsoft Fabric in a series of blogs starting with this one. In the recap, I said that certain features might benefit organizations that are already on Power BI Premium because all Fabric features are...
Prologika Newsletter Fall 2023 (A First Look at Microsoft Fabric: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)
September 16, 2023 / No Comments »
Microsoft Fabric is upon us with a grand fanfare. You can get a good overview of its vision and capabilities by watching the Microsoft Fabric Launch Digital Event (Day 1) and Microsoft Fabric Launch Digital Event (Day 2) recordings. Consultants...
PROLOGIKA NEWSLETTER SUMMER 2023 (Fast Track to ERP Analytics)
June 11, 2023 / No Comments »
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems capture a wealth of information from main business processes within an organization, such as Sales, Inventory, Orders, etc. Therefore, a BI journey typically starts with analyzing the ERP data, with revenue analytics usually taking the...
Prologika Newsletter Spring 2023 (Data Lakehouse: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly)
March 4, 2023 / No Comments »
There has been a lot of noise surrounding a data lakehouse nowadays, so I felt the urge to chime in. In fact, the famous guy in cube, Patrick LeBlanc, gave a great presentation on this subject to our Atlanta Power BI...
Prologika Newsletter Winter 2022 (What Exactly is Synapse?)
December 9, 2022 / No Comments »
A few days ago an exalted customer shared that they've acquired Synapse and now they're ready for Power BI modeling. He just wasn't sure how to give business users access to Synapse so cool self-service BI can finally start. In...
Prologika Newsletter Fall 2022 (Power BI Datamarts: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly)
September 17, 2022 / No Comments »
BI implementation shortcuts are tempting and disguise themselves as cost-effective. True, you can slap a Power BI dataset on top of your data (the cornerstone of self-service BI), but most BI implementations will greatly benefit from a datamart, irrespective of...
