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December 23, 2018

Prologika Newsletter Winter 2018

Self-service Data Integration with Power BI Dataflows

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,…

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September 20, 2018

Prologika Newsletter Fall 2018

How Power BI Changes Semantic Modeling

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…

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June 23, 2018

Prologika Newsletter Summer 2018

Microsoft Common Data Services

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…

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March 11, 2018

Prologika Newsletter Spring 2018

Extending Power BI with PowerApps and Flow

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…

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December 23, 2017

Prologika Newsletter Winter 2017

Sharing Reports with External Users

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…

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September 9, 2017

Prologika Newsletter Fall 2017

Business Performance Management

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…

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June 17, 2017

Prologika Newsletter Summer 2017

What Does Power BI Premium Mean for You?

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…

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March 11, 2017

Prologika Newsletter Spring 2017

15 Reasons Why Microsoft is Leading the BI Space

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…

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December 24, 2016

Prologika Newsletter Winter 2016

Designing an Operational Data Store

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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September 4, 2016

Prologika Newsletter Fall 2016

Embedding Reports in Custom Applications

Embedding Reports in Custom Applications Last week's seminar on formulating a Power BI enterprise strategy held at the Microsoft office was a great success. Over 50 people witnessed the amazing capabilities of the Power BI platform. As Power BI evolves, we'll have similar events to…

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