Since the first chief data officer was appointed at Capital One in 2002, the role has been plagued by confusion about its purpose. In studying CDOs and their roles over the past decade, the authors identified seven key types of CDO jobs, each distinct enough that it would be difficult or impossible for one person to perform all of them well. Understanding what a given organization expects of its CDO, and then matching capabilities with those expectations, can be the key to longer, more effective, and happier CDO tenures.

Collaboration is key as more companies hive off duties held by IT officers and create positions to better use data and manage emerging tech like ChatGPT.

Comparing snapshots by state shows how many ids have moved from one state to another between 2 snapshots providing insights on bottlenecks.

When people are asked why data storytelling matters, most of the focus is on the benefits that can be derived by the individuals communicating the insights. However, there are two key perspectives to consider when contemplating why it matters--that of the sender and that of the receiver. While individuals will gain much from developing data storytelling skills, it's ultimately the audiences who will be the greater beneficiaries. This article explores how each side benefits from data storytelling and how data stories can collectively enhance your organization's overall success.

A good collaborator offers companionship, a fresh perspective, and can help balance skillsets. Here's how to make a collaboration successful.

Today, we have some exciting news to share with you – the introduction of a new Power BI admin API that allows you to conveniently access all tenant settings in a single call.

Top chief data officers share insights on how leaders and organizations can ensure data success.

Reading Time: 3 minutes Data is generated by every click, swipe, and interaction we have online. It is collected by businesses, governments, and organizations to understand their customers, markets, and operations. It is analyzed both manually and automatically by tools, AI algorithms, and models...

Discover the benefits of establishing a Centre of Excellence (COE) for data analytics with Azure and Power BI innovation in FSIs.

Learn how Power BI advanced data model management is about empowering creators with advanced data modeling and publishing capabilities.

In recent years, Power BI has become one of the most widely used business intelligence (BI) tools. Power BI is more than just a reporting tool; it is a comprehensive analytical platform that enables users to collaborate on data insights and share them internally and externally. In addition to creating reports and dashboards, Power BI … Continue reading Power BI Governance, What Organisations Need to Know

Learn about the content certification and endorsement in the Power BI service, what it is, and how it can help the adoption of Power BI.

This Scanner API release extends coverage for artifact metadata, RDL data source properties, dataset sub-artifact metadata, and datamart metadata.

Power BI includes capabilities to enable users to understand the content they own, and how different items relate to each other. Sometimes you may need a custom “big picture” view that …

Power BI Usage Metrics Report If you build it, they will come.  That movie line doesn’t just fit baseball diamonds, it is often uttered when an

We’re excited to announce a new form of Power BI embedded analytics that enables you to embed an interactive data exploration and report creation experience in your applications. With this solution, you’ll be able to provide your users a similar experience to our integrations in Dynamics 365 and SharePoint.

The SSRS RDL Migration tool is now available in SSRS 2017, SSRS 2019 and SSRS 2022! You can also migrate .pbix and .rdl files from Power BI Report Server January 2023 and Report Server September 2022.

We are announcing improvements to the Power BI audit logs that helps Power BI admins filter usage of Power BI data in Excel by workspace name and workspace id.

Beware of Power BI migration tools that do things that are unsupported or over-promise

Announcing Public Preview of new My workspace governance features that address some of the pain points of governing My workspaces for Power BI Service Admins

Explore the many benefits of leveraging code and no-code analytics technologies during your analytics go-to-market strategy with this blog.

Learn how to build an automated and customized Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipeline that integrates with Power BI using Azure DevOps.

Reading Time: 4 minutes The Power BI Gen2 capacity model significantly changed the way that Power BI resources are shared among multiple or reserved for individual customers. Attempting to draw a good analogy of how capacities work, however, leads to significant oversimplification. Simple analogies...

This blog discusses the different steps your organization can take to maximize the adoption of your dashboards, ML solutions, and analytics applications.

Licensing in Power BI os one of the most intimidating topics for the newbies. This article will demystify all the licensing options in a gentle and friendly way!

Over the last half year, I have been involved in many large migration projects from another BI tool to Power BI. All with a different setup, from Tableau, Microstrategy and from Analysis Services t…

You’ve probably heard of Microsoft Purview somewhere. Buck Woody joins Patrick to highlight how Microsoft Purview can help you with data governance. From cataloging to lineage, Purview is a key component for your data strategy! Connect with Buck: https://twitter.com/BuckWoodyMSFT https://www.linkedin.com/in/buckwoody/ Microsoft Purview: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purview/purview https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/?view=o365-worldwide https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/purview/

No More Copying/Pasting Passwords in Power BI Desktop Unlike Office Microsoft 365 desktop applications, Power BI Desktop doesn't keep track of more than one account at a time, which is quite annoying for people like myself who work across several tenants. Like many people I use a password manager, and for years I had to