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December 18, 2023

Prologika Newsletter Winter 2023

Dataverse Link to Fabric

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 available in Power BI Premium…

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September 16, 2023

Prologika Newsletter Fall 2023

A First Look at Microsoft Fabric: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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 and experts are extolling its…

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June 11, 2023

PROLOGIKA NEWSLETTER SUMMER 2023

Fast Track to ERP Analytics

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 center stage because of its…

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March 4, 2023

Prologika Newsletter Spring 2023

Data Lakehouse: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

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 Group and you can find the…

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December 9, 2022

Prologika Newsletter Winter 2022

What Exactly is Synapse?

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 the process of the conversation,…

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September 17, 2022

Prologika Newsletter Fall 2022

Power BI Datamarts: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

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 the propaganda of self-service BI…

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June 12, 2022

Prologika Newsletter Summer 2022

Hosting Semantic Models to AAS

The workhorse of any modern BI solution is the semantic model that provides unparallel performance and contains business logic and security roles. Microsoft BI gives us three options to host semantic model: SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), Azure Analysis Services (AAS), and Power BI.  This newsletter…

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March 13, 2022

Prologika Newsletter Spring 2022

Data Integration Options with Cloud Providers

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 vendor's cloud offering, comes at…

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December 20, 2021

Prologika Newsletter Winter 2021

Virtualizating Data with PolyBase

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 to the subject of this…

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September 11, 2021

Prologika Newsletter Fall 2021

The US Largest Laboratory Network Gets Consolidated Reporting

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 and its vendors can now…

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