Work Around for Printing Power BI Reports
Despite its many unique strengths, Power BI has some frustrating shortcomings. First on our list is the printing experience. Read on for a first-hand account of the ironic workaround we needed to implement.
Despite its many unique strengths, Power BI has some frustrating shortcomings. First on our list is the printing experience. Read on for a first-hand account of the ironic workaround we needed to implement.
Clean, straightforward and well-integrated, the advanced buttons capabilities in the April 2019 release of Power BI enable a new level of integration with Salesforce and let you up your Salesforce reporting game. We’ll take you through a simple exercise that scratches the surface of the types of Salesforce reporting you can do with Power BI. Slick stuff. Check it out!
Power BI comes with a variety of built-in report design themes. But when it comes to applying custom color themes, such as your company brand colors, the process is way too technical. Along with a quick primer on Power BI themes, we give you access to our Power BI Theme Builder, an app we created that makes it super simple to create custom report themes or adjust the built-in ones and then import them into Power BI.
Hallelujah! The latest releases of Power BI resolve many of the pixel perfect, burstable and paginated report issues that have been chapping our hides. While not entirely hitting it out of the park, Microsoft gives us a much better transitional process.
April 18, 2019 Business Strategy & Perspectives
With the abundance of reporting tools Cognos Analytics 11.1 offers, how do you know which one to use? Fear not! We’ve assembled a handy visual reference guide that makes it easy to compare tools against report functionality requirements and quickly come up with the answer.
April 8, 2019 Business Strategy & Perspectives
Before you leap into your BI project, consider the unsung hero of successful BI: documentation. Sure, it’s not sexy, but the effort you put in here, upstream off implementation, ensures everyone is working of the same playbook so you achieve success at the end.
November 26, 2018 News & Events
Our Power BI specialist Shawn Alpay is back with his favorite picks for the most recent release of Power BI. With this November release Shawn waxes positively enthusiastic. Be prepared for lots of exclamation points as Shawn discusses the vastly improved relationships experience!
November 12, 2018 News & Events
From enhancements that improve speed and ease of use to new capabilities that strengthen Tableau’s position as a market leader, this year’s Tableau Conference offered up lots of news. We give you our picks for the best of the coming soon features announced at TC18.
October 29, 2018 News & Events
Microsoft’s October 2018 release of Power BI is available. We give you our take on the tricks and the treats handed out in this month’s version: the feature roadmap, search in filter cards, DAX editor improvements, availability of composite models and aggregations in the BI Service, data profiling in the query editor, and fuzzy matching.
October 18, 2018 Tips & Tricks
Getting Tableau Dashboard Starters for Salesforce connected to your Salesforce cloud and working properly does not happen out of the gate. We describe how to correctly “rewire” the Dashboard Starters to point to your Salesforce cloud and give you the steps and tips to bypass commonly encountered issues.
