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Learn how to plan and conduct a migration from another third-party BI tool to Power BI.

The last two videos in our series on building a data culture covered different aspects of how business and IT stakeholders can partner and collaborate to achieve the goals of the data culture. On…

BI Polar has a series of videos and accompanying blog posts that focus on key aspects building a data culture. This series is in progress – five videos have been published so far, and more vi…

How to increase Power BI adoption in your organization.

When starting a Power BI project, you have many choices to make. Decisions like how to source your data, where and how to create queries to cleanse, transform and reshape the data; where and how to…

Microsoft released the exam DA-100 (Analyzing Data with Microsoft Power BI) around early April 2020 which was in Beta until around the beginning of July. After the exam become out of Beta, I was wo…

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Introduction This article is an update to one of my more popular blog articles and includes updates and corrections. Free Even though Microsoft took away the ability to share using the Free version of the Power BI Service, there is still a method available for sharing reports in Power BI. That featu...

In last week’s post and video we looked at how business intelligence tools have evolved, with each evolution solving one set of problems and introducing another set. The video described how s…

Not all data is created equal. One size does not fit all. In addition to collaboration and partnership between business and IT, successful data cultures have something else in common: they recogni…

In this blog I describe a few of the challenges you might face when you have a lot of dataflows. I will describe a few tips and tricks I am applying to sanitize your dataflow approach, organize dat…

The Power BI team releases many new features in every monthly release, which is an amazing achievement to make it happen every time. Having all this new functionality on your fingertips is a great …

This post discusses two methods of receiving an alert when a tenant setting has changed in the Power BI Service: one using Cloud App Security, and the other using the M365 Security & Compliance Center.

Using the XMLA endpoint, the Power BI Premium service now includes the capabilities of SQL Server Analysis & Azure Analysis Services combined with newer data modeling capabilities of Power BI. …

In my experience working in IT industry from early 2000 one aspect of dealing with data that is always taken very seriously is data governance. For many years the industry learnt how important it is to have a data governance process in place to keep your data safe and healthy so you get the most … Continue reading Introducing Power BI Governance and Adoption Good Practices Series

Welcome to the all-digital Microsoft Business Applications Summit 2020! As we kick off the event, we are excited to announce and showcase new capabilities to help our customers drive a data culture in their organizations.

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Today we’re releasing the second edition of the Power Platform Adoption Framework. We're introducing some new ideas—and new ways of thinking about existing concepts—as we enter the Power Platform Adoption Framework's second year. As a "framework", we're committed to broadly applicable best

Companies are generating an amazing amount of data, but do they know how to use it? Often, the answer is ‘not really.’ You need to leverage a solution that can help your employees understand what your data is telling them. With Microsoft Power BI, you have access to manipulate, learn from and act on your […]

The digital transformation has already begun. By 2020, 60% of all enterprises will have fully articulated an organisation- wide digital platform strategy. Where will your business be by 2020? Don’t fall behind. Bring your enterprise up to speed with Microsoft Azure. Contact us to learn more on how we can help you adopt this transformative […]

Today our great friend Alex Powers is walking us through how to use the Open Broadcaster Software OBS to increase our brand via video streams. Alex is a Micr...

Navigating organizational change through Power BI in the turbulent landscape of 2020.

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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 &#…

How Rockwell Automation drives a data culture using Power BI and Azure

Imagine that you are building a Power BI dataset for corporate reporting, that will also be reused for self-service purposes by many others. It is up to you, as dataset author, to make it as simple…

PowerShell 7.0 was made generally available last month and one of it’s new features is pipeline parallelization for the ForEach-Object cmdlet. Scripts running on PowerShell 7 or higher can si…

Power BI is taking off, and it’s fast becoming the most popular business intelligence platform on the market. It’s easy to engage with and get professional results quickly, making it the perfect tool for organisations looking to beef up their BI prowess and make data driven decisions through-out the organisation. In this post we’re going … Continue reading Power BI Governance, Good Practices, Part 1: Multiple Environments, Data Source Certification and Documentation

Here are seven tried-and-true tips from other successful Business intelligence adoptions you can’t miss.