by Rob Collie | Oct 14, 2020 | PowerPivotPro
Data with the Human Element. Three episodes dropped today! Raw Data by P3 – “Data With the Human Element” We overhauled our website in April of this year, and daaaaamn do I love it. It’s sharp, it’s modern, it’s just a touch edgy – and that represents us more...
by Fred Kaffenberger | Aug 26, 2020 | PowerPivotPro
You need insights from your data, but you don’t want the wrong people seeing data that’s confidential or outside their responsibilities. In the Power BI service, there’s a robust way of ensuring that the right people get the data that they need for their purposes:...
by Rob Collie | Jun 17, 2020 | PowerPivotPro
Wise Professionals See the Big Picture Bringing it Home Today we’ll be concluding our 3-part series on Analysis versus Reporting, Power BI versus SSRS and Paginated Reports, and looking closely at our habit of using the word “versus” so liberally: Part One summarized...
by Rob Collie | Jun 11, 2020 | PowerPivotPro
Recap of Part One If you missed Tuesday’s history lesson AKA Part One, don’t worry, here’s the summary: For a long time, Reporting was the dominant force in BI, with Interactive Analysis a distant second This wasn’t because Reporting was better – it was just because...
by Rob Collie | Jun 8, 2020 | PowerPivotPro
This is where we’re headed in Part Two. Today: taking stock of how we got here. (Click image for larger version) Summary of this 2-part piece: There’s always been a blurry line between Analysis and Reporting 20 years ago, BI was dominated by Reporting, with Analysis...
by Rob Collie | Apr 28, 2020 | PowerPivotPro
Crises Drive a Need for New Business “Maps” Over the years, I’ve written multiple times about how BI spending increases during hard times. When we were planning the Excel 2007 release at Microsoft for instance, we researched the spending trends of the dot-com crash...
