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

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, …

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.

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…

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

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

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

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.

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 …

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).

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

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, …

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.

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…

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.

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

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…

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

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.

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 …

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…

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.

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…

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

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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…

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 …

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…

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.…