Newsletter

  • Prologika Newsletter Winter 2020  (Extending Semantic Models)

    December 17, 2020

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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...

  • Prologika Newsletter Fall 2019  (Power BI Sharing Best Practices)

    September 15, 2019

    We all need to share. But until a couple of months ago, a Power BI training or assessment wouldn't be complete unless I got hammered on the Power BI sharing limitations. Fortunately, Microsoft has addressed most of these and I...

  • Prologika Newsletter Summer 2019  (Learning and Analyzing DAX)

    June 15, 2019

    After learning how to model the data properly (the most important skill), DAX would be the next hurdle in your self-service or organizational BI journey. You won't get far in Microsoft BI without DAX. This letter shares a tip on...

  • Prologika Newsletter Spring 2019  (Two New and Powerful Power BI Machine Learning Features)

    March 17, 2019

    At least five of the top 10 IT trends in 2019 identified by Gartner involve machine learning in one form or the other. The list includes autonomous things, augmented analytics, AI-driven development, digital twins, and immersive experience. Gartner also predicts...

  • Prologika Newsletter Winter 2018  (Self-service Data Integration with Power BI Dataflows)

    December 23, 2018

    Happy Holidays! I hope you're enjoying this special time of the year. According to Gartner, "poor data quality is hitting organizations where it hurts – to the tune of $15 million as the average annual financial cost in 2017". Data...

  • Prologika Newsletter Fall 2018  (How Power BI Changes Semantic Modeling)

    September 20, 2018

    Semantics relates to discovering the meaning of the message behind the words. In the context of data and BI, semantics represents the user's perspective of data: how the end user views the data to derive knowledge from it. A modeler...