Newsletter
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Prologika Newsletter Winter 2015 (Power BI and You)
March 8, 2016
Power BI and You I'm excited to announce the availability of my latest (7th) book - Applied Microsoft Power BI! Currently, this is the only book on Power BI. The book page has more information about the book, including the...
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Prologika Newsletter Fall 2015 (Is ETL (E)ating (T)hou (L)ive?)
March 8, 2016
Is ETL (E)ating (T)hou (L)ive? Before we get to the subject of this newsletter, I'm happy to announce the availability of my latest class - Applied Power BI Service. As you've probably heard by now, Power BI Service (or Power...
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Prologika Newsletter Summer 2015 (What’s New for BI in Office 2016?)
March 8, 2016
What's New for BI in Office 2016? While you might be still trying to convince management to upgrade to Office 2013, the next version of MicrosoftOffice (Office 2016) is on the horizon and scheduled to be released sometime in the...
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Prologika Newsletter Spring 2015 (QUO VADIS DATA WAREHOUSE?)
March 8, 2016
A while back I met with a client that was considering overhauling their BI. They asked me if the traditional data warehousing still makes sense or should they consider a logical data warehouse, Big Data, or some other "modern variant"....
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Prologika Newsletter Winter 2014 (WHY POWER BI.NEXT?)
March 8, 2016
After an appetizer of embedded Power View reports , Microsoft proceeded to the main course that is a true Christmas gift – a pubic preview of what's coming in its Power BI offering. For the lack of a better term,...
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Prologika Newsletter Fall 2014 (WHAT IS AZURE MACHINE LEARNING?)
March 8, 2016
According to Gartner, one main data analytics trend this year and beyond will be predictive analytics. "Increasing competition, cost and regulatory pressures will motivate business leaders to adopt more prescriptive analytics, making business decisions smarter and more repeatable and reducing...
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Prologika Newsletter Summer 2014 (BI ON YOUR TERMS)
March 8, 2016
During the Day 1 keynote at the 2014 BA Conference, Microsoft committed to BI on your terms. They said that all new features will be eventually available both on premises and in the cloud. We've also learned that hybrid scenarios...
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Prologika Newsletter Spring 2014 (POWER BI FOR OFFICE 365)
March 8, 2016
I hope you are enjoying the beginning of the spring. The focus of this newsletter is self-service BI with Microsoft Power BI. But before I start, I strongly encourage those of you in the Southeast USA to register and attend...
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Prologika Newsletter Winter 2013 (WHAT'S NEW FOR BI IN SQL Server 2014)
March 8, 2016
As I'm enjoying my vacation in tropical Cancun, Mexico, I hope you've been enjoying the holidays and planning your BI initiatives in 2014. Speaking of planning, you may have heard that Microsoft is working hard on next release of SQL...
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Prologika Newsletter Fall 2013 (WHY SEMANTIC LAYER?)
March 8, 2016
I hope you had a great summer. The chances are that your organization has a centralized data repository, such as ODS or a data warehouse, but you might not use it to the fullest. Do you want a single version of...
