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Learn how to automate and elevate data curation, provenance, and protection for improved data governance. Read the report: An Evolution in Data Governance.

In 2008 I was hired to solve a problem. At this point almost 12 years later, the problem itself is no longer relevant[1]. While digging around on an unrelated task today I found this chart, which i…

Explore the options when implementing Row Level Security in your tabular model.

A common topic I have been discussing recently with customers is the security around Power BI. Basically, how to prevent users seeing data they shouldn’t. So I’ll discuss the various &#…

And here's a link to "The Human Impact of Data Literacy" report that's mentioned in the above article: https://t.co/xeFCOiNM1t— Melissa Coates (@SQLChick) February 19, 2020

In my previous post, I pointed out a lot of ways things could go wrong and the necessity to control what users of a service can do because if you don’t, be sure they will abuse every right th…

On-premises data gateways allow users to connect online services like Power BI service, Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow), and Power Apps to their on-premises data sources such as SharePoint…

If you are a Business Intelligence consultant working in Power Platform, Azure Logic Apps and Azure Analysis Services landscape, you probably felt that On-premises Data Gateway is one of the essential parts of your engagements with the your customers. Installing On-premises Data Gateway can go smoothly if you already have a well thought implementation plan … Continue reading Definitive Guide to Implement On-premises Data Gateway (Enterprise Mode) in Organisations

In case you missed it, Microsoft has published the “2020 release wave 1” release plan for the Power Platform, including Power BI. You can find the goodness here: Power Platform: 2020 re…

I’m running behind on my own YouTube publishing duties[1], but that doesn’t keep me from watching[2] the occasional data culture YouTube video produced by others. Like this one: Ok&#823…

Have you ever looked at a problem and immediately known how to solve it? Have you ever seen that there’s already a group of people who are responsible for solving this problem this problem, a…

Gateway Performance Monitoring is a frequently overlooked but important part of Power BI governance. Review technical considerations for implementation.

In this video, Manu and Paul provide details on various support scenarios and options for Power BI. This series provides a structured approach for developing...

The purpose of this post is to identify a number of behaviors and assumptions which may contribute to suboptimal Power BI projects and overall Power BI environments. A few symptoms resulting from t…

BlueGranite has created a solution leveraging the Office 365 Management APIs to extract and store all available Power BI audit data.

Data is governed when it is: Trustworthy | Secured | Managed & Audited | Documented & Understood.

When I shared on Twitter the most recent installment in the BI Polar “data culture” series, BI developer Chuy Varela replied to agree with some key points from the video on executive sp…

Continuing on our series on data culture, we’re examining the importance of having an executive sponsor. This is one of the least exciting success factors for implementing Power BI and gettin…

tl;dr – to kick of 2020 we’re starting a new BI Polar video series focusing on building a data culture, and the first video introduces the series. You should watch it and share it. Succ…

The new Power BI Activity Log makes it much easier for Power BI administrators to access audit log data to monitor and analyze activities occurring within the tenant they support. This blog post de…

This blog serves as the beginning of a Power BI Governance series that will outline our observations and recommendations for implementing governance.

You may have seen things that make you say “that’s Power BI AF” but none of them have come close to this. It’s literally the Power BI AF[1]. That’s right – this …

I meet a lot of customers in my job, either through the Microsoft field or at conferences and many times we hear the same: “We love Power BI and we...

Over a year ago, I wrote a blog about Multiple tier architecture and continuous delivery with Power BI, mainly an overview of the setup and manually creating development and production content. Th…

As I continue to explore and develop best practices for managing serious business-scale Power BI solutions, I’m having conversations with recognized community leaders. Last month I chatted w…

Deploying Power BI in a large enterprise is a complex task, and one that requires a lot of thought and planning. The purpose of this presentation is to help y…

Team file sharing and version control may be managed through Power BI workspace integration with OneDrive and SharePoint team sites. In this post, I will show you how to get started and setup a new…

This blog post details how to use the Power BI features to see when there are support issues and how to get notified when it occurs