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’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
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
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
If you’re new to PowerApps, be sure to read my brief introduction to PowerApps HERE In this session, I’ll show you how to setup a series of drop-down menus were the list of available values is based on the value selected in the first dropdown Start by creating a new screen, and creating a Connection Read More
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
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
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
Could the new Map Shapes visualisation be a game-changer for PowerBI? I’m going to look at what the new feature does, and why it could well be. Although this is, I think, the first time I’ve written about Microsoft’s PowerBI, anyone who knows me personally will know I’ve been a huge fan, following its progress Read More