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A Value-Driven Approach to Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing This article is the first chapter from the book Agile Analytics: A Value-Driven Approach to Business Intelligence and Data Warehou…

What is most important during the organisational change implementation to make sure that employees feel the change is done with then, not to them? Proper creation and execution of change communication.

As Power BI becomes more prevalent in data analytics and visualization within the enterprise, data security becomes a significant concern. Power BI at its best is deployed to the Power BI service host…

Data Curation needs to be guided by Data Governance so it can secure itself a place as a core Data Management requirement.

Implementing a Power BI solution is not just about developing reports, creating a data model, or using visuals. Power BI, like any other technologies, can be used in a correct, or incorrect way. Any t…

An important reason for global enterprises of all sizes to embrace Self-Service Analytics & Business Intelligence (BI) is to allow business users and business units to conduct their daily Analytics work without relying on IT.

System1 Chief Data Officer Nathan Janos describes how he and his team communicate their data science process to business stakeholders when tackling a new optimization opportunity.

As adoption of Power BI grows, more and more organizations are finding value in purchasing and deploying Power BI Premium. Power BI Premium offers a different licensing structure where an organization…

Selected slides from presentation regarding Power BI Governance and Development Best Practices. Presentation was held at MS BI & Power BI User Group Finland ev…

It’s my pleasure to announce that version 2 of the white paper that I co-wrote with Melissa Coates, “Planning A Power BI Enterprise Deployment”, is now live and can be downloaded from here. The title …

A new version of the popular whitepaper, Planning a Power BI Enterprise Deployment, is now available as a resource for the community. This whitepaper was a joint effort between BlueGranite and Crossjoin Consulting. The evolution of Power BI continues to move at a fast pace, so updating the whitepaper involved a large number of edits and additional content.

I just wrapped up my first presentation on Making Sense of the Power BI Ecosystem at SQL Saturday #755 in Davie, Florida at Nova Southeastern University. The room was full and unfortunately people …

Join this session to learn how to plan and manage your Premium capacity for your enterprise. Learn what factors to consider in planning your capacity and how to assess your plan through mechanics and …

Microsoft Power BI administration is the management of a Power BI tenant, including the configuration of tenant settings, usage monitoring, and provisioning of licenses, and other organizational resources. The job is to make business users productive and ensure security and compliance with laws and regulations. This session covers the typical admin tasks and tools, such as Power BI admin portal and Office 365 admin center, and how to automate them by using administrative APIs and PowerShell cmdlets.

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For many of us who work in data analytics for long time, you may notice that producing great data reports and dashboards alone doesn’t always generate desired outcomes. Why? Because data reports and dashboards are usually exploratory by nature and self-service oriented. In addition, they usually don...

Organizations that start with Power BI often ask me "Jesse, how do you go about development, test and production environments when using Power BI?". I have decided to write about my experiences - I have been implementing Power BI since the beginning of the product - and share you my ideas. The reason why this…

The organizational structure of the Data Science team will vary based on the size of the company, how many varied business functions there are, geographical distribution, and company culture, but there are common factors to consider when integrating Data Scientists into a larger data-driven organization.

We live in a busy and stressful era. In our daily business we can not wait for weeks, months or even longer to get our insights. So we need to deliver faster. Therefor we are working agile to reali…

A Data Governance Strategy defines how Data Governance initiatives are planned, defined, funded, governed and rooted in the grass roots of the enterprise. It also defines the business value needed to be realized from the outcomes on reaching specific milestones. The maturity model is a prime technique that showcases the evidence-based outcomes, if put to consistent use can assist you in the moving towards a data driven culture.

In this week's episode of Insight Quest, Brett, the team's lead BI developer and admin, has returned from a trip to the Power BI World Tour in Seattle and been assigned the following three work items …

Back from the days when I was a management student a classic work on strategy,which inspired me was “Strategy Safari” by Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand, and Joseph Lampel. Strategic …

We live in a data-driven world. We don't make decisions without consulting as much data as possible, whether we're booking a hotel or playing fantasy football. Yet, many organizations aren't fully cap…

At the heart of every a Business Intelligence reporting solution is a data model, to optimize queries and enable ad hoc report interactions. Data modeling technology has evolved quite a lot over the p…

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A new whitepaper authored by Peter Myers presents a comprehensive body of knowledge covering all aspects of deploying, scaling, troubleshooting and managing a Power BI Premium deployment in an enterprise. The whitepaper provides both background information explaiing how various Power BI concepts play together in an enterprise deployment as well as practical examples of challenges encountered in … Continue reading “Power BI Premium Deployment and Management Whitepaper added!”

To ensure employee productivity and satisfaction with Power BI, enterprise organizations develop comprehensive product training, bolster their help desks, and invest in helping their user communities with internal forums to share ideas and best practices. But it can be a challenge to educate users about the availability of these organizational resources. The exciting news is … Continue reading “Tailoring help and support for Power BI users”