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Time flies when you are having fun and learning, right? Time for the 6th blog in the series of transforming a local solution into a global, enterprise-grade Power BI solution. This episode will be …

The communications center example is a solution that enhances your CoE capabilities by providing an easy to use Power App that sends notifications and announcements to discreet audiences (the users of an app).  The app sends adaptive cards to users to draw attention, using a set of templates for new...

CSG ProCustom Software, Business Intelligence and Cloud ServicesBasic Power BI ReportThe Very Basics of Great Power BI Report DesignSome Power BI report design skills take years to master. These …

Here is how to create a dynamic histogram in Power BI. It changes with the help of a slicer that regulates data distribution groups (adjustable bins).Forewords about histogramA histogram is a great …

A big data visualization solution in Microsoft Power BI summarizes and tracks performance against business objectives while Microsoft Core Services Engineering and Operations drives results. This solution refines large amounts of data into accurate and actionable insights for the entire organization. It improves satisfaction, enables growth, and drives operational effectiveness on Microsoft’s road to digital transformation.

In this digital age, data is a strategic asset, and creating a modern data catalog is key to finding and connecting siloed enterprise data, which enables people to ask important questions and gain business insights. Microsoft used feedback from end users to develop an intuitive data catalog that incorporates discoverability, traceability, and access management. To gain adoption for the catalog, the team generated excitement through a structured marketing campaign that used internal social channels, posters and digital signage.

Microsoft’s drive to make more and better data-driven decisions is fueled by analyzing data with Microsoft Power BI.But how is it getting employees to analyze their data and build their own …

This is not the first time I have shared this concept.  In my previous article I showed how it is possible to add a prefix to every column in a table. This article today is slightly different. Today I am removing text from multiple columns all at once using some [...]Read More »

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Overview I started my career as a front-end developer, so I have always tended to take a top-down approach. The great thing about the Power Platform

Access an app’s global variables, collections, controls, and tabular data sources directly from within a canvas component, without needing to pass everything through component properties. Great for formula and UI reuse within an app.

Today, Forrester has recognized Microsoft as the Leader in both strategy and current offering in The Forrester Wave: Augmented BI Platforms, Q3 2021.

Frustrated that a you can only do a full refresh? Patrick takes it to the next level by showing how you can refresh only a single table in your Power BI dataset. This is a great option for targeted refresh and avoid potential overhead. Processing Options: https://docs.microsoft.com/analysis-services/multidimensional-models/processing-options-and-settings-analysis-services?view=asallproducts-allversions Refresh Types: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/analysis-services/analysis-services-async-refresh Elegant BI Blog: https://www.elegantbi.com/post/datarefreshintabulareditor https://www.elegantbi.com/post/processingmanager

This article reviews Data Governance Initiatives to determine how to secure data usage, manage activity, gain visibility, and control of one of your most important assets.  Whether on-premises or in the cloud, more employees are using and sharing an ever-increasing amount of data throughout your organization.

Push datasets are an efficient and inexpensive way to implement real-time updates in Power BI reports and dashboards. They can provide better performance an

Power BI Push Tools is a set of open-source tools to work with Power BI push datasets. Read Implementing real-time updates in Power BI using push datasets i

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Tables in your Power BI reports don't need to be old-fashioned boring visuals. Check how you can create astonishing tables for your users!

Have you ever been faced with the issue where Power BI automatically adds a sigma symbol to the front of your column if it detects it’s a data type of integer or decimal? Now this isn’t too much of an issue if you’ve imported only a few columns but what if you’ve imported lots? Going […]

Video by: Reid Havens Learn a unique way to utilize a waterfall by restricting its categorical comparison to just two values , with a breakdown comparison between. By combining a slicer and a bit of DAX magic in Power BI.

As a project manager with Providence specializing in healthcare finance, Wyendie knows that sometimes all it takes to get started is a good idea—and a few colleagues willing to support it. While some companies are naturally poised to enact change quickly, others must take a bit more time. The detailed nature of finance and the complexity of healthcare means that change happens more slowly. But that also comes with the risk of being left behind. And Wyendie was determined to ensure that did happen at her company. But before she could transform her field, Wyendie first had to find a solution to a very old problem.

Embed Power BI Goals in your app With data flowing from every corner of an organization, it is easy to get lost in a sea of information where key data points are sprinkled across scattered reports and dashboards. Goals is a new Power BI feature that helps individuals, teams, and organizations keep t...

Modify the formula of an article answering a reader question: How to compute the last 6 months of transactions using the last transaction date of each custo

This article explains how the CONTAINS function works and what can be used as better alternatives in DAX in common use cases. The CONTAINS function in DAX h

Using OKRs today or want to learn how to use Objectives and Key Results using Power BI Goals? This post will show you how to support OKRs.

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By using a newly announced feature we can write C# code to transform the custom connector response into any shape we want.

Custom connectors for Power Automate and Power Apps make it possible to create our own connectors for any web service that has a REST API.