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Data maturity measures and evaluates a business’ habits, behaviours, and tools.

Technology changes but the need for tradeoffs between the rights of the individual and the rights of the community as a whole remain. The new “governed data discovery” is just the next …

Part 2 in a blog series focusing on breaking down the concept of governed data discovery.

Part 1 in a blog series focusing on breaking down the concept of governed data discovery.

How to have both centralized management and end-user agility with one data analysis tool.

10 common challenges for a business intelligence director including lack of BI platform adoption and an inability to carry out effective change management.

Roundup of business intelligence maturity models from key analysts and experts in BI to identify organizational strengths and weaknesses.

With most companies listing BI within their top agenda, and with the rising costs and confusion around proving the worth of BI and justifying its costs, it makes sense to try and understand the evolut…

There are three fundamental steps in building a data warehouse for a BI solution (see Why you need Business Intelligence): Identify the data the users interact with, or would like to interact with,…

Do you ever wonder how your business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW) environment compares to other companies and what steps you should be taking to progress your analytics platform? One…

The BI maturity model can tell you what your business needs to take advantage of business intelligence. But where do you fit on that model? Here's how to take steps toward business intelligence maturi…

Collibra’s data governance and catalog solutions give teams powerful tools that make it easy to consume data across the enterprise.

A BI project should return value to the company quickly, not only after months or even years of work. In this article by Gogula Aryalingam, Ruthie, the intern, determines which items from her manager's requirements she can complete before the big meeting. She continues working on her semantic model by including a Date table, the star schema, measures, formatting, and more.

Last night I was scheduled to present this topic at the Power BI User Group in Portland except the meeting was cancelled because of a snowstorm; except the snowstorm didn’t happen… not …

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”

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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…

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…

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 …

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 …

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.

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…

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.

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…

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...

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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.