Creating and Displaying a Last Refresh Date Measure
usiness users often need to know how fresh the data is that they see on a Power BI report. This requirement can be interpreted to mean either “when was the last date & time that the sour…
Has Progress on Data, Analytics, and AI Stalled at Your Company?
Companies need to rethink how they’re investing in data, analytics, and AI — and whether these investments are creating real business value.
A disappointing 40.8% of executives reported that their companies were competing on data and analytics, a decrease(!) from 47.6% four years ago.
Finally, and most discouraging, a meager 20.6% of executives — barely one in five — reported that a data culture had been established within their companies, a 27% decrease from the 28.3% of companies reporting having established a data culture back in 2019.* Regression, not progress.
Export Paginated Reports automatically in a low-code way without Power BI Premium
From time to time I got asked how customers can export Paginated (or Power BI) Reports automatically to store them e.g. in OneDrive or any other location. One way is obviously to do it manually, bu…
Dataflows have been with us in Power BI for some time now, and people have gotten more used to them. However, as their popularity grows, so does the need to control them.
In this post we look at how to use Smart Buttons (flic) with Power Automate and Power BI to create and control types of event-driven reporting solutions.
Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Development Community call - 2nd of February, 2023
Two demos: Turn that ‘Power Apps’ app into a Mobile app! and List Formatting Magic – Query string options and look up field handling. Delivered 4 Independent Publisher Connectors, 2 Teams, 7 Script, and 2 Power Apps samples.
How to develop an accessible colour palette for Power BI | endjin
If the audience for your Power BI report is larger than 12 people, then statistically 1 of your audience suffers from Colour Vision Deficiency. In this post we will talk through how we experimented with colour to develop an accessible colour palette and why colour and contrast is important when it comes to data visualisation.
How Charts Work: Understand and explain data with confidence by Alan Smith - Power of Business Intelligence
The Financial Times is a source of great data-driven stories told through data visualization. The Financial Times vocabulary poster is a simple yet comprehensive tool … Read More
The Environment concept in M for Power Query and Power BI Desktop
The environment concept (in our opinion) is one of the most important concepts in M, while it is one of the least obvious ones. This series of posts is written in collaboration with Imke Feldmann from thebiccountant.com Part 1 – Introduction Part 2 – Environments in single nested records and let-expressions Part 3 – Global and local environments and […]
We believe DataOps is the function within an organization that controls the data journey from source to value. DataOps is critical to any growing business working with any type of data.
There is no secret about this. If you do any legitimate research about Power BI (reading blogs, books or training from reliable sources), you will quickly learn that a lot of basic functionality re…