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 of 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.
Cognos Analytics 11.1 is now available and it’s a major new release. Our in-house Cognos expert Todd Schuman lists the new capabilities and changes he is most excited about in CA 11.1.
Microsoft just issued the September 2018 release of Power BI. You can read the official Microsoft take on the newest changes, but check here for our real-life run down of the most notable features in the September 2018 release.
September 20, 2018 Tips & Tricks
Microsoft offers more than 20 tools in its BI and data warehouse ecosystem. If your organization uses the Microsoft platform to build its business intelligence and data warehouse solutions, understanding these assets…
September 10, 2018 Tips & Tricks
Groups play an important part in everyday Tableau use, allowing you to get around the inconsistencies that arise when pulling data from various sources. Groups let you create custom combinations and hierarchies so you can use data in a way that makes sense for your particular analysis needs. Watch our step-by-step demo of how to create a Tableau worksheet that leverages a group.
Hierarchies in IBM Planning Analytics are a great tool for providing summarized information that does not exist in the underlying cube. But like Clint Eastwood’s character in Sergio Leone’s epic spaghetti western, this good guy can be tough and gritty in places. Read on for our take on the good, the bad and the ugly with this powerful feature.
