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

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...

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 […]

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 […]

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

Cerner Corporation implements a single source of truth for data

My family is a foster family for cats and kittens from the cat shelter where we’ve adopted some of our own cats. Usually a litter will stay with us for a month or two, but it depends on the k…

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.

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

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. …

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.

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 …

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…

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 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…

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...

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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…

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…

How to increase Power BI adoption in your organization.

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…

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…

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

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_single_image media="87927" media_width_percent="100"][vc_column_text] Complete blog post to be released following the 4th part of the series. Part 3 Power […]

New documentation about what’s involved with migrating to Power BI is available on the Microsoft Docs site.

Power BI implementation key considerations from a non-technical perspective.

In this blog post we cover features of the Power BI Service that could potentially compromise enforcement of your governance and security policies.

We know that Excel is one of the most widely used tools in the world for understanding data and making decisions based on that data. It's used by hundreds of millions of users each month in almost every type of company imaginable. To better meet the needs of our users, Excel has evolved and transfor...

The last few posts and videos in this series have introduced the importance of a community where your data culture can grow, and ways to help motivate members of the community, so your data culture…