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Back in 2020 I wrote a post titled “Successfully measuring / measuring success” that talked about a problem without meaningfully describing it, because at the time I didn’t believ…

After Power BI Workspace setup – part 1, which was mainly about creating your workspace, giving it the right name etcetera, this blog will elaborate on workspace permissions. If you did not r…

Unless you’re building a solution for your exclusive personal use, you are not the customer. If you are not the customer, you need to invest in understanding the customer’s motivations,…

My recent posts have focused on the importance of understanding both the problem domain and solution domain in which you’re working, the value of operating in both the problem domain and the …

If you’re reading a Power BI-focused blog[1] you’re probably someone who builds solutions. As a BI and data practitioner, you may build reports, datasets, dataflows, databases, or any n…

Dread of data misuse has spread through all kinds of organizations since the General Data Protection Regulation went live in May. The legislation hasn't done much to lighten the already drab image of

Let’s be clear — we do not intend to bury data governance, but rather to place it within the context of a more comprehensive approach…

In a recent post I mused about problem domains and solution domains, how they’re context-dependent, and how interesting things tend to happen at the intersection of a problem domain and a sol…

To successfully implement managed self-service business intelligence at any non-trivial scale, you need data governance. To build and nurture a successful data culture, data governance is an essent…

There are some really interesting things on the Power BI release plan. I'd like to call out a few of the top things that I’m most excited about. In this post, I’m focusing on a few release plan items that I think Power BI administrators in particular should be aware of as we head into 2022.

I’ve been thinking about problem domains and solution domains a lot lately. I’ve posted on this topic before, but the more I think about it, the more I think I should explore it more. S…

How do you measure the success of your organizations data culture? We dive deep into define measure for success.

Here is a fun way to use Q&A functionality to build a data dictionary in Power BI and add GIF animation to the report page background.

In this blog post I detail how to to configure and backup Power BI Premium per user or Power BI Premium databases.

With the increased use of data to drive business decisions, your organization can't just stick its neck in the sand and ignore data privacy anymore.

Reflection on how “You have to be technical” during informationals or interviews, especially with lack of context can lead to undesirable outcomes, including gatekeeping and more.

Learn what the RACI model is, why it matters, and when and how to use it to improve your stakeholder management.

There are four ways to think about scope when planning for workspaces in the Power BI Service: (1) What is the content? (2) Who’s the content delivered to? (3) How will the content be managed and by whom? (4) How will the content be deployed? This post covers this one aspect of workspace planning an

Power BI CoE is an important concept if it is understood that Power BI implementation does not end when the platform is open and available to your organisation. Implementation starts at this point.…

To realise the vision of a CoE, a common and fundamental requirement is to have support from your organisation’s leadership. CoE is no different from any other investment within a company: you will…

Organisations come in many shapes and forms, so do their needs. Scoping a Power BI Centre of excellence is time sensitive, as nowadays, companies are in constant evolution. The BI journey has many …

scope for the CoE, and in addition, you might have some existing team members and you might need to recruit as well. This article covers not only the skills, knowledge, and behaviour of your CoE, b…

Microsoft customer stories. See how Microsoft tools help companies run their business.

After some time off from blogging, I'm finally back! During the last couple of months, I've been working on something a little bit different, so no, this time you won't see a huge post or some tutorial on how to do some fancy trick with a visual in Power BI. In this blog post, we are going to talk about Power BI Adoption! If you're not yet familiar with the topic, I highly recommend you to have a look at this documentation available on Microsoft Docs (everything I've done was based on this serie

Often I got the question from customers: “Can you assign my workspace to a premium capacity?” But frequently they actually do not really need Power BI Premium. It remains to be a diffic…

Standard Bank, which operates in more than 20 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and abroad, adopted a self-service Power BI model in 2017 and has evolved the platform from descriptive analytics to predictive and prescriptive models. The bank’s Insurance Business group collaborated with its BI Data Visualization team to use AI and automated machine learning to predict and accurately target customers.

The last blog in the series of transforming a local into a global enterprise grade solution. After everything about sharing content and requesting access to content, and many other topics, it is ti…

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 …