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Join this session to learn how to plan and manage your Premium capacity for your enterprise. Learn what factors to consider in planning your capacity and how to assess your plan through mechanics and …

I just wrapped up my first presentation on Making Sense of the Power BI Ecosystem at SQL Saturday #755 in Davie, Florida at Nova Southeastern University. The room was full and unfortunately people …

A new version of the popular whitepaper, Planning a Power BI Enterprise Deployment, is now available as a resource for the community. This whitepaper was a joint effort between BlueGranite and Crossjoin Consulting. The evolution of Power BI continues to move at a fast pace, so updating the whitepaper involved a large number of edits and additional content.

It’s my pleasure to announce that version 2 of the white paper that I co-wrote with Melissa Coates, “Planning A Power BI Enterprise Deployment”, is now live and can be downloaded from here. The title …

Selected slides from presentation regarding Power BI Governance and Development Best Practices. Presentation was held at MS BI & Power BI User Group Finland ev…

As adoption of Power BI grows, more and more organizations are finding value in purchasing and deploying Power BI Premium. Power BI Premium offers a different licensing structure where an organization…

System1 Chief Data Officer Nathan Janos describes how he and his team communicate their data science process to business stakeholders when tackling a new optimization opportunity.

An important reason for global enterprises of all sizes to embrace Self-Service Analytics & Business Intelligence (BI) is to allow business users and business units to conduct their daily Analytics work without relying on IT.

Workspaces is another way of sharing Power BI content with other people. The benefit of this approach of sharing is that you can share content with a group of people, and create a development environm…

Implementing a Power BI solution is not just about developing reports, creating a data model, or using visuals. Power BI, like any other technologies, can be used in a correct, or incorrect way. Any t…

Data Curation needs to be guided by Data Governance so it can secure itself a place as a core Data Management requirement.

As Power BI becomes more prevalent in data analytics and visualization within the enterprise, data security becomes a significant concern. Power BI at its best is deployed to the Power BI service host…

What is most important during the organisational change implementation to make sure that employees feel the change is done with then, not to them? Proper creation and execution of change communication.

A Value-Driven Approach to Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing This article is the first chapter from the book Agile Analytics: A Value-Driven Approach to Business Intelligence and Data Warehou…

In the context of digitalization, organization are deploying more and more data science projects.

This wave of data technology revolution remains strong and companies of various sizes are actively building/expanding their Data Science…

Business Intelligence is way more than just software. It is a strategy. This article outlines the five elements that constitute a good BI discipline: Industry know-how, methodology, architecture, soft…

This webinar will help you understand the stages of adoption and a methodology to drive adoption of self-service BI with the help of a structured approach.

A skills framework establishes common ground for conversations, even among people of wildly diverging perspectives.

The organizational choice to implement Power BI often comes with the promise of self-service business intelligence. This can be interpreted in a number of ways, but tends to be represented as the ability of the business to query data with minimal involvement from IT. The reality, however, is not usually

We are happy to announce the technical reference implementation of an enterprise grade infrastructure to help accelerate the deployment of a BI and reporting solution to augment your data science and…

All this talk all the time about Big Data and Advanced Analytics is all well and good, in fact it is something I do most of my time. The technology is there and has great potential. The biggest que…

BI@Microsoft is a program inside Microsoft IT which is responsible for the BI tools Microsoft employees use. This blog post will look at how we are driving rapid internal adoption of Power BI and influencing the Power BI product group so that it builds a product that meets the needs of large enterprise customers.

Power BI is a versatile tool, but there can be confusion as to who should use it and how when an organization begins to roll it out.

Missed the previous parts of this series? See Become your organization’s strategic advisor by using Machine Learning and Power BI   Estimating the actual impact of an investment is an essential part of management. An investment, in this context, can be any change in resource allocation but is most o...

In this series of blog posts, I will provide a step by step guide on how to become the change agent that puts your organization on a path towards continuous improvement using the most valuable decision support techniques. I prefer the term decision support over business intelligence since it emphasi...

Before Excel and other data-linked spreadsheets, business reports needed to be hand-crafted by IT experts, and changes were arbitrated slowly via change control. Power BI was designed to take the liberation that Excel pioneered to the max, by allowing 'power' users to not only to create Power BI desktop reports, graphics and visualisations in Power BI App, but then link and publish these to the Power BI app. These in turn can be given row level security and have their underlying data kept up-to-date so that users can log in and see the relevant and appropriate data in a browser. Saurabh Des...