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Back to CommunityMarch 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 that by 2022, at least…
Read newsletterDecember 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 integration is another huge challenge,…
Read newsletterSeptember 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 translates the machine-friendly database structures…
Read newsletterJune 23, 2018
Microsoft Common Data Services BI and data integration projects often benefit from an operational data source (ODS), whose benefits and design I discussed in my "Designing an Operational Data Store (ODS)" newsletter. A corporate ODS typically fall into the organizational BI area, which means that…
Read newsletterMarch 11, 2018
Extending Power BI with PowerApps and Flow With hundreds of vendors out there, choosing a BI tool isn't easy. If you've been following me for a while, you know that I love Power BI. One of the Power BI most prominent strengths is that it's…
Read newsletterDecember 23, 2017
Sharing Reports with External Users Happy Holidays! I hope you're enjoying this special time of the year – time for sharing and giving. Speaking of sharing, how does your company share BI artifacts with your B2B or B2C partners? Do you still send Excel spreadsheets…
Read newsletterSeptember 9, 2017
Business Performance Management As I'm writing this newsletter, Florida and Georgia (I live in Atlanta, GA) are in the midst of planning for hurricane Irma, which is expected to be one of the most powerful Atlantic Ocean hurricanes in recorded history. I hope that…
Read newsletterJune 17, 2017
What Does Power BI Premium Mean for You? As I mentioned in my Spring newsletter "15 Reasons Why Microsoft is Leading the BI Space", Microsoft BI is enjoying resurgent interest from customers and industry observers, and Power BI gets lots of attention. I'm sure that…
Read newsletterMarch 11, 2017
15 Reasons Why Microsoft is Leading the BI Space I hope you're enjoying the beginning of 2017 and you're staying healthy and busy. It's been a hectic and exciting period for me. I published the second edition of my "Applied Microsoft Power BI" book in…
Read newsletterDecember 24, 2016
Designing an Operational Data Store (ODS) I hope you're enjoying the holiday season. I wish you all the best in 2017! The subject of this newsletter came from a Planning and Strategy assessment for a large organization. Before I get to it and speaking of…
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