Resuming from Last Week Last week’s post left off here: most BI still relies on the storage layer (SQL or its many cousins) to be the brain, and storage layers are terrible brains because they were designed for storage, not…
If You’re Not Building Data Models, You’re Not Doing Power BI (or Data!) the Right Way Alternate Titles Abound! I could have just as easily titled this post ANY of the following: Why Power BI is (much) better than Tableau…
What can Data do for your Business Today? My new seminar’s mission is to provide business leaders with easy-to-follow recipes for data-driven success. We will devote an entire day to the kinds of business impact you can readily achieve…
We Interrupt Our Regularly-Scheduled Program… Rather than talking about HOW to do things with data, let’s start the new year by spending some time on WHY we care about data investments in the first place. “BORING,” I hear you say,…
This is a follow on from my last post where I gave my view on why so many companies fail to embrace Self Service BI as at least a part of the overall BI capability. In that article I introduced…
New Feature: Roundtable Welcome to an experimental new feature here at PowerPivotPro, where members of the team discuss various topics related to Power BI, Power Pivot, and Analytics/BI in general. These conversations take place during the week on our Slack…
Two Hours. Data Superpowers. Victory. Not Kidding. A New Way. Tearing Down Old Paradigms. Folks, today I want to share a source of personal pride – literally share it, and make sure YOU experience it. I saw something, back in…
by Matt Allington Many businesses (dare I say most) are yet to get started with Power Pivot and Self Service BI. Often the first person in an organisation that discovers Power Pivot doesn't know how to navigate the political and cross functional…