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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…

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…

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A new whitepaper authored by Peter Myers presents a comprehensive body of knowledge covering all aspects of deploying, scaling, troubleshooting and managing a Power BI Premium deployment in an enterprise. The whitepaper provides both background information explaiing how various Power BI concepts play together in an enterprise deployment as well as practical examples of challenges encountered in … Continue reading “Power BI Premium Deployment and Management Whitepaper added!”

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”

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 …

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.

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

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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 …

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

Explore Power BI videos to see how innovative Power BI features work together to provide business intelligence insights at a massive scale.

Power BI is an excellent tool for departments or small organisations getting started with their BI solution. Unless some time is spent organising the solution, however, it can become cluttered. In this article, Gogula Aryalingam explains how to streamline the solution to keep it organized and efficient.

I post about Power BI dataflows a lot, but that’s mainly because I love them. My background in data preparation and ETL, combined with dataflows’ general awesomeness makes them a natura…

If you build software or data solutions[1] you have probably encountered one or both of these situations: You're trying to report a bug, but the developer doesn't believe that there's a problem. Someo…

Every few weeks I see someone asking about using Analysis Services as a data source for Power BI dataflows. Every time I hear this, I cringe, and then include advice something like this[1] in my respo…

Here are links to the resources that helped a client recently as her team is switching over to Power BI. For additional resources, please let me know what you’d like to see, and I will dig it…

We need to use Power Platform Adoption Framework as an opportunity to embrace the whole platform, which means thinking about all the component parts — Power BI, Flow, PowerApps (and Common Data Service!) — when we think about enterprise adoption.

I am so excited to be sharing the first edition of the Power Platform Adoption Framework, the start-to-finish approach for adopting Microsoft’s Power Platform at scale. The white paper is available at this link. My hope is that the framework will continue to become a worldwide standard for enterpris

Shared datasets, as well as dataset endorsements which include certified and promoted datasets, are interrelated and can play an important role in a self-service BI implementation of Power BI.