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This article reviews Data Governance Initiatives to determine how to secure data usage, manage activity, gain visibility, and control of one of your most important assets.  Whether on-premises or in the cloud, more employees are using and sharing an ever-increasing amount of data throughout your organization.

When comparing AAS to PPU, I show which are the different deployment options and suggest which ones will work best.

This post discusses the forms, origins, and indications of fraud and misrepresentation in the context of Power BI consulting and contract engagements. The intent of this content is to help the read…

Power BI deployments are resource-intensive projects that require managing many moving parts and competing priorities. Plan for success with this approach.

We are very thrilled to announce the general availability (GA) of Backup and Restore for datasets in Power BI Premium and Premium per User (PPU). Whether you are migrating Azure AS workloads to Power BI or must consolidate Power BI tenants due to a merger or acquisition or simply want to backup Power BI datasets on a regular basis to meet the data retention and disaster recovery requirements of your organization, you can now rely on the Backup and Restore capabilities of Power BI as a fully supported feature.

Recently I started a blog series on different topics that come into play when you want to transform a local (small scale) solution into a global (enterprise) solution. I started this series explain…

Even for simple Power BI deployments, you need a strong team. These are the roles you need to fill, along with the skills and responsibilities required for each.

It occurred to me that we have put so much effort into promoting best practices and proper design that there is far less information about how to create bad reports and data models. In that light, …

Organizations must continually mature their Power Platform enterprise management in order to unlock the platform’s value as a first-class cloud application platform and scale it over time. The Enterprise Management Maturity Model is the common standard that can be applied across the platform (and

Microsoft has released a Power BI Adoption Roadmap, roughly 150 pages of guidance for organizations using Power BI to get the most value out of their business intelligence investments. Melissa Coates wrote the document, working closely with Matthew Roche of the Power BI Customer Advisory Team (CAT).

Even though he lived 2,000 years ago, you’ve probably heard of the Chinese military strategist and general Sun Tzu. He’s known for a lot of things, but these days he’s best known …

Any successful data strategy is built upon a deep understanding of your data domain. To get there, you need to set up a data assessment framework first.

Data governance is one of the main pillars of enterprise Power BI deployment. Include these core principles in your data governance framework.

I’m thrilled to announce that the new Power BI Adoption Roadmap is out! The goal for this new documentation is to help organizations know what is involved with adopting Power BI successfully. For the most part it’s targeted to orgs who have Power BI deployed to a certain extent, yet know there’s

Understanding the details behind all the different roles and access controls you can have when governing your Power BI content can be a bit confusing sometimes. I often struggle to remember what tenant settings can I use to restrict users from publishing content, the different roles users can have in workspaces and what they can and can't do in each one of those roles. To make our life easier, I will try to summarise in an easy way how you can restrict users from publishing and accessing content

Power BI is integrating with the Microsoft Teams activity feed. This release adds notifications for report sharing and request access for reports. This helps you get more done without leaving Microsoft Teams or hunting through your emails. Learn more…

Learn how using data can help you understand and improve your business. Power BI lets you easily unify data from many sources to create interactive dashboards and reports that provide actionable insights to drive your business. This training covers an overview and demo of Power BI to show how you can get maximum value out of your data in a way that was previously not possible.

One of the key success factors for organizations to thrive today is adopting modern self-service business intelligence tools and transforming their businesses to become more agile, more automated, …

In this blog post I compare loading historical data between Power BI Premium Per User and Azure Analysis Services.

Building a data strategy roadmap will help you solve many challenges while using data to its fullest potential. Make sure to include these key components.

CSG ProCustom Software, Business Intelligence and Cloud Servicesdata governance frameworkWhat to Include in Your Power BI Data Governance FrameworkData governance is one of the main pillars of …

An overview of the Power BI adoption roadmap series of articles.

This blog post shows configuring and refreshing data using incremental refresh when comparing Azure Analysis Services & Power BI Premium Per User

Our intake form is opinionated. Years of designing and carrying out analyses has taught me that the more context I have up-front, the better my analysis will be. So, our intake form is designed to …

Do you ever get the feeling that you you’re participating in a completely different conversation than the person you’re talking to? Maybe you are. Back in December[1], Power BI MVP Lars…

Most of what I do in my day job involves listening. Specifically, I spend a lot of time listening to people who use Power BI[1] talk about why they use it, how they use it, and where they struggle …

This is part 5 of the Analysis Services DevOps blog series. Go to part 4 Release Pipelines In the previous chapter, we saw how to set up a complete build pipeline, that loads our Tabular model from source control, performs a schema check, runs the Best Practice Analyzer and even performs a validation deployment. At the