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...
by Evan Rhodes | Apr 20, 2020 | PowerPivotPro
Sometimes in the grind of data wrangling, slinging some DAX code, and laying down some sweet charts, graphs, and tables, we can forget that the softer “non-data stuff” can really drive usability and adoption. It’s very easy for us (the report authors) to...
by Rob Collie | Apr 12, 2020 | PowerPivotPro
Yep, it’s a big change. And a good one!(but don’t worry, we’re still in the stick figure business) “P3 version 3” Clarifies What We Can Do For You A lot has changed in the ten and a half years since we launched this site! When I penned the first “hello world” post in...
