Ten Ways to Deliver Business Impact with Power BI
A simple description about ten things Power BI and data can do for you, along with bonus honorable mentions as well.
Category: Observations, Trends, and Wild Speculation
Nerds-Turned-Bullies, the Rise of the Brogrammer, and Are Analytics Good for SQL People?
Today I want to go off-topic just a little bit, but in a way that I think is relevant to many of us as professionals. And then bring it home, so to speak, specifically at the intersection of Analytics and Databases.
BI for Everyone: Tear Down the Wall Between IT and Business
President Reagan in his famous “Tear down this wall” address, asked for the Berlin wall to be brought down. Believing that freedom and security go together.
Power BI Designer vs. Excel: What’s Microsoft Up To?
This is Power BI Designer, a New Product from Microsoft, and It’s Relevant to ALL of Us.
A New Take on “Data Quality?”
Bad Data DOES Lead to Bad Results. But Good Data Can STILL Lead to Bad Results. Garbage in, Garbage out. We’re all familiar with this. If you’re being given junky source data, it’s going to be hard to perform ANY meaningful analysis or reporting on said data until the quality of the inputs is addressed.
Self Service BI Doesn’t Mean Desktop Standalone BI
A colleague recently pointed me to a blog post on Birst’s website, that says QlikTech has jumped the shark.
Insight as a Service – Your Next Career?
Is Your Brain More Valuable Than You Know? ***Update: May 2015 This article is now three years old. I’ve been gone from my last company now for more than two […]
Beta-Testing the “ROI Quadrant”
If you’ve been around Business Intelligence for the past ten years, you’ve seen a LOT of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant. You can see the 2012 version here on Microstrategy’s web site.
DataMarket Revisited: The Truth is Out There
Yeah, I love quoting movies. And tv shows. And song lyrics. But it’s not the quoting that I enjoy – it’s the connection.
The 3rd Most Common Button in Data Apps is…
A little bit of food for thought today, delivered in a pictorial/humorous style but with a serious point. A Running Joke That Never Gets Old I’m quite fond of the […]
In the Browser, Aesthetics Yield a Greater Return
I thought today was going to be a “handful of mini posts” kind of day but then this post blossomed into a bit more than I thought it would, which is a good thing.
Comparing Access to PowerPivot
Here’s a question that comes up with increasing frequency: “PowerPivot seems kinda similar to Access in many ways, what’s the difference?” Why Does the Question Come Up? Some of you […]