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Workarounds…..workarounds…..workarounds. We all build workarounds as necessary until more enterprise-ready functionality is made available. This is true for Power BI Usage metrics across workspaces. We have usage models for each individual workspace but there are several issues with them. you have to copy the model in order to edit it and make it useful you […]

You may have seen things that make you say “that’s Power BI AF” but none of them have come close to this. It’s literally the Power BI AF[1]. That’s right – this …

This blog serves as the beginning of a Power BI Governance series that will outline our observations and recommendations for implementing governance.

The new Power BI Activity Log makes it much easier for Power BI administrators to access audit log data to monitor and analyze activities occurring within the tenant they support. This blog post de…

tl;dr – to kick of 2020 we’re starting a new BI Polar video series focusing on building a data culture, and the first video introduces the series. You should watch it and share it. Succ…

Continuing on our series on data culture, we’re examining the importance of having an executive sponsor. This is one of the least exciting success factors for implementing Power BI and gettin…

When I shared on Twitter the most recent installment in the BI Polar “data culture” series, BI developer Chuy Varela replied to agree with some key points from the video on executive sp…

Data is governed when it is: Trustworthy | Secured | Managed & Audited | Documented & Understood.

BlueGranite has created a solution leveraging the Office 365 Management APIs to extract and store all available Power BI audit data.

The purpose of this post is to identify a number of behaviors and assumptions which may contribute to suboptimal Power BI projects and overall Power BI environments. A few symptoms resulting from t…

In this video, Manu and Paul provide details on various support scenarios and options for Power BI. This series provides a structured approach for developing...

Gateway Performance Monitoring is a frequently overlooked but important part of Power BI governance. Review technical considerations for implementation.

Have you ever looked at a problem and immediately known how to solve it? Have you ever seen that there’s already a group of people who are responsible for solving this problem this problem, a…

I’m running behind on my own YouTube publishing duties[1], but that doesn’t keep me from watching[2] the occasional data culture YouTube video produced by others. Like this one: Ok&#823…

In case you missed it, Microsoft has published the “2020 release wave 1” release plan for the Power Platform, including Power BI. You can find the goodness here: Power Platform: 2020 re…

On-premises data gateways allow users to connect online services like Power BI service, Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow), and Power Apps to their on-premises data sources such as SharePoint…

In my previous post, I pointed out a lot of ways things could go wrong and the necessity to control what users of a service can do because if you don’t, be sure they will abuse every right th…

And here's a link to "The Human Impact of Data Literacy" report that's mentioned in the above article: https://t.co/xeFCOiNM1t— Melissa Coates (@SQLChick) February 19, 2020

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 &#…

Explore the options when implementing Row Level Security in your tabular model.

In 2008 I was hired to solve a problem. At this point almost 12 years later, the problem itself is no longer relevant[1]. While digging around on an unrelated task today I found this chart, which i…

Learn how to automate and elevate data curation, provenance, and protection for improved data governance. Read the report: An Evolution in Data Governance.

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

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

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…

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…

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

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 &#…