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Prologika Newsletter Spring 2022 (Data Integration Options with Cloud Providers)
March 13, 2022 / No Comments »
Nowadays, it’s unlikely to envision a data analytics solution without ingesting data from some cloud vendor. Unfortunately, as many of you have found out the hard way, moving to the cloud, such as moving your on-prem ERP system to the...
Prologika Newsletter Winter 2021 (Virtualizating Data with PolyBase)
December 20, 2021 / No Comments »
Happy Holidays! More and more organizations consider data virtualization to abstract the underlying storage and integrate siloed sources. In this letter, I'll discuss a real-life project that used PolyBase to expose third-party ERP data as SQL tables. Before I get...
Prologika Newsletter Fall 2021 (The US Largest Laboratory Network Gets Consolidated Reporting)
September 11, 2021 / No Comments »
LabCorp operates one of the largest clinical laboratory networks in the world. It also has an Interactive Response Technology system that healthcare vendors can use to conduct case studies. Thanks to the cloud data analytics solution implemented by Prologika, LabCorp...
Prologika Newsletter Summer 2021 (First Look at Power BI Goals)
June 19, 2021 / No Comments »
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...
Prologika Newsletter Spring 2021 (State Health Department Gains Reliable and Rapid Insights)
March 13, 2021 / No Comments »
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...
Prologika Newsletter Winter 2020 (Extending Semantic Models)
December 17, 2020 / No Comments »
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...
Prologika Newsletter Fall 2020 (Azure Synapse Analytics)
September 18, 2020 / No Comments »
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...
Prologika Newsletter Summer 2020 (Analyzing Teams Utilization)
June 11, 2020 / No Comments »
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...
Prologika Newsletter Spring 2020 (Embracing Automated Machine Learning)
March 8, 2020 / No Comments »
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...
Prologika Newsletter Winter 2019 (BI Axioms)
December 25, 2019 / No Comments »
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...
