Data governance is one of the main pillars of enterprise Power BI deployment. Include these core principles in your data governance framework.

I’m thrilled to announce that the new Power BI Adoption Roadmap is out! The goal for this new documentation is to help organizations know what is involved with adopting Power BI successfully. For the most part it’s targeted to orgs who have Power BI deployed to a certain extent, yet know there’s

Understanding the details behind all the different roles and access controls you can have when governing your Power BI content can be a bit confusing sometimes. I often struggle to remember what tenant settings can I use to restrict users from publishing content, the different roles users can have in workspaces and what they can and can't do in each one of those roles. To make our life easier, I will try to summarise in an easy way how you can restrict users from publishing and accessing content

Power BI is integrating with the Microsoft Teams activity feed. This release adds notifications for report sharing and request access for reports. This helps you get more done without leaving Microsoft Teams or hunting through your emails. Learn more…

Learn how using data can help you understand and improve your business. Power BI lets you easily unify data from many sources to create interactive dashboards and reports that provide actionable insights to drive your business. This training covers an overview and demo of Power BI to show how you can get maximum value out of your data in a way that was previously not possible.

One of the key success factors for organizations to thrive today is adopting modern self-service business intelligence tools and transforming their businesses to become more agile, more automated, …

In this blog post I compare loading historical data between Power BI Premium Per User and Azure Analysis Services.

Building a data strategy roadmap will help you solve many challenges while using data to its fullest potential. Make sure to include these key components.

CSG ProCustom Software, Business Intelligence and Cloud Servicesdata governance frameworkWhat to Include in Your Power BI Data Governance FrameworkData governance is one of the main pillars of …

An overview of the Power BI adoption roadmap series of articles.

This blog post shows configuring and refreshing data using incremental refresh when comparing Azure Analysis Services & Power BI Premium Per User

Our intake form is opinionated. Years of designing and carrying out analyses has taught me that the more context I have up-front, the better my analysis will be. So, our intake form is designed to …

Do you ever get the feeling that you you’re participating in a completely different conversation than the person you’re talking to? Maybe you are. Back in December[1], Power BI MVP Lars…

Important updates for workspace admins and Power BI admins, we are extending the timeline for upgrading classic workspaces to new workspaces.

Most of what I do in my day job involves listening. Specifically, I spend a lot of time listening to people who use Power BI[1] talk about why they use it, how they use it, and where they struggle …

This is part 5 of the Analysis Services DevOps blog series. Go to part 4 Release Pipelines In the previous chapter, we saw how to set up a complete build pipeline, that loads our Tabular model from source control, performs a schema check, runs the Best Practice Analyzer and even performs a validation deployment. At the

What are release pipelines in Azure Pipelines?

This is part 2 of the Analysis Services DevOps blog series. Go to part 1 Branching strategy and workflow The first thing we need to align before getting started, is what branching strategy to use. While this sounds boring, it’s actually quite important, because it will dictate what the daily development workflow will be

According to the internet, a maxim is a succinct formulation of a fundamental principle, general truth, or rule of conduct.[1] Maxims tend to relate to common situations and topics that are underst…

Enterprise Service Management (ESM) Performance Dashboard built on Microsoft Power BI for the BMC Helix Remedyforce platform

There were several interesting Data & AI announcements that came out of Microsoft Build 2021. I put together this summary of 11 interesting and includes links to both the announcements and other follow-on information.

Last month I wrote the first part of this blog post, which is intended for users that are in the beginning of their Power BI journey. After a long wait, I finally had some time to finish the second part of the post! If you don't remember what we discussed in the first post, have a look in the link below: Power BI Report Development 101 - Part 1 (datapears.com) Review of the Part 1 finished? Amazing!! So, let's go back to our diagram: Colours legend: Blue Squares - These steps are usually mandato

Learn how a Center of Excellence helped Microsoft create a standardized analytics and data platform to unlock insights with the right operating model, stakeholder engagement, and shared and dedicated investments.

When you hear someone say that governance and self-service BI don’t go together, or some variation on the tired old “Power BI doesn’t do data governance” trope, you should i…

CSG ProCustom Software, Business Intelligence and Cloud Servicespower bi implementationsWhat to Expect When You’re Expecting a Power BI ImplementationThe implementation of a tool is even more …

Going forward, there will be two major changes to the Power BI Deployment & Governance training course. Video content will be consumed by participants on-demand Group Q&A sessions, will be held independently, will be live at multiple times to accommodate global time zones

An introduction to deployment pipelines the Power BI Application lifecycle management (ALM) tool

With Power BI becoming more and more popular, it can be observed that organizations are trying to move their current reporting platform in to Power BI based solutions. However, success of this migr…