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Prologika Newsletter Spring 2025 (Microsoft Copilot Studio)
March 15, 2025
Looking for easy ways to create intelligent bots or Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) apps? Microsoft Copilot Studio should help. After a year of letting it (and other Microsoft LLM offerings) simmer and inspired by the latest hoopla from the Ignite conference,...
Prologika Newsletter Winter 2024 (Strategies to combat memory pressure with large semantic models)
December 14, 2024
I conducted recently an assessment for a client facing memory pressure in Power BI Premium. You know these pesky out of memory errors when refreshing a biggish dataset. They started with P1, moved to P2, and now are on P3...
Prologika Newsletter Fall 2024 (Using Generative AI to Create Code Copilots)
September 13, 2024
When it comes to Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs), most people fall into two categories. The first is alarmists. These people are concerned about the negative connotations of indiscriminate usage of AI, such as losing their jobs or...
Prologika Newsletter Summer 2024 (Modern Data Warehouse Reloaded)
June 16, 2024
I’ve written in the past about the dangers of blindly following “modern” data architectures (see the “Are you modern yet?” and “Data Lakehouse: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”) but a recent assessment inspired to me write about this...
Prologika Newsletter Spring 2024 (DAX Visual Calculations)
March 15, 2024
One of the main goals and benefits of a semantic model is to centralize important business metrics and KPIs, such as Revenue, Profit, Cost, and Margin. In Power BI, we accomplish this by crafting and reusing DAX measures. Usually, implementing...
Prologika Newsletter Winter 2023 (Dataverse Link to Fabric)
December 18, 2023
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...
Prologika Newsletter Fall 2023 (A First Look at Microsoft Fabric: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)
September 16, 2023
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...
PROLOGIKA NEWSLETTER SUMMER 2023 (Fast Track to ERP Analytics)
June 11, 2023
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...
Prologika Newsletter Spring 2023 (Data Lakehouse: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly)
March 4, 2023
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...
Prologika Newsletter Winter 2022 (What Exactly is Synapse?)
December 9, 2022
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...
