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How did Microsoft’s Power BI come to lead the Gartner Magic Quadrant?

February 18, 2017 0 comments Article News, PowerBI

Once per year Gartner, a research and advisory firm specialising in the IT sector, release their ‘Magic Quadrant’ for Business Intelligence. For the second year running, Microsoft has been considered the vendor with the most complete vision, though also notable is that both Microsoft and Tableau have begun to open the gap between themselves and Read More

You can now Download your PowerBI Reports as a PBIX file

November 30, 2016 0 comments Article Intermediate, PowerBI

You’ve created that fantastic Data Model in PowerBI desktop, uploaded it to PowerBI Web for your team to admire. You’ve built some snazzy visualisations which everyone is now happy with. Fantastic. Job Done. Home early tonight. If only, right? Chances are, you spotted a problem / limitation with your original model – or thought of Read More

A Brief introduction to Microsoft’s PowerApps Platform

November 27, 2016 0 comments Article Advanced, PowerApps

After several months of being in Preview, Microsoft has moved its PowerApps service into General Release – though if PowerBI is anything to go by, we’ll see regular updates and enhancements in the coming months    . If you’re not familiar with PowerApps, it’s a tool to create Data-Driven mobile phone applications in a Graphical Interface, and Read More

Transferring Data & Parameters Between Screens in PowerApps

November 27, 2016 4 comments Article Advanced, PowerApps

If you’re new to PowerApps, be sure to read my brief introduction to PowerApps HERE In this session, I want to show you how to transfer data between screens. This assumes you have created a data connection (See also: Creating a connection to an Enterprise Gateway), and have brought some data into your app (in Read More

Connecting PowerApps to an Existing Enterprise Gateway

November 27, 2016 0 comments Article Advanced, PowerApps

If you’re new to PowerApps, be sure to read my brief introduction to PowerApps HERE In this session, I want to show you how to connect to an existing Enterprise Gateway. If you already use Microsoft’s PowerBI, there’s a good chance you already use an Enterprise Gateway to connect PowerBI to your on-premises SQL Server Read More

Creating Virtual Tables in Power BI Using DAX

November 26, 2016 0 comments Article Advanced, PowerBI

In this session, I want to show you how to use DAX / M expressions to create virtual tables. You may want to do this to create an aggregated view of your data to then work with, or perhaps filter down a dataset. I’ll show you examples of both, including doing both together. Once you’ve Read More

Microstrategy Desktop Now Available as a Free Application

October 19, 2016 0 comments Article Microstrategy, News, Visual Insight

In an interesting development, Microstrategy has decided to make its once-flagship Desktop application free of charge, without limitation. For those unfamiliar, Microstrategy is a Business Intelligence tool, along the same lines as Tableau, Qlik et al. They’ve struggled to maintain market share as the BI space has grown, so providing their standalone desktop software for Read More

How did Microsoft’s Power BI come to lead the Gartner Magic Quadrant?

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