Business Strategy & Perspectives
Power BI offers many ways to pull in data for analysis. But what approach should your organization take? The answer depends on considerations that include whether or not your organization has an existing data warehouse, your need for real-time dashboarding and the ease-of-use factor for your analysts. We explore four options, outlining the pros and cons of each.
The use of "big numbers” KPI dashboards has become a managerial must-have report for assessing business performance. But building them into a Tableau dashboard isn’t as easy as you’d think. Learn our tried-and-true method for building a big numbers sales and profit KPI dashboard in Tableau and you, too, can deliver professional, effective KPI dashboards to your decision makers.
Power BI Pro licensing often works well for small- and mid-sized organizations focused on enabling self-service BI. But for larger organizations that want to leverage paginated reports or require enhanced administration tools, an upgrade to Power BI Premium is needed. We tell you about included features, pricing and admin functionality.
For organizations looking to move away from on-premise SSRS, you can now leverage Power BI service with premium capacity to run your RDL formatted reports. In this blog, we provide the options for purchasing premium capacity along with the steps needed to create, publish and set up email subscriptions for paginated reports in Power BI service.
Power BI Gateway is a vital component in any enterprise level Power BI deployment. We sum up how Gateway works and how it ties into Power BI service and provide some important best practices and considerations for installation, configuration and data sources.
Business Strategy & Perspectives
Most companies today use more than one BI tool. We examine the birth of bimodal analytics, the pros and cons of this approach and how to bridge the divide so that the tools run optimally and reduce overhead.
Ask Data, Tableau’s new feature for natural language query, is out on the market. But how does it work? Who is it intended for? What are its limitations? Highlights? We took Ask Data for an extensive test drive. In this blog we answer all these questions and many more.
If you recently upgraded your Cognos BI Server to 11.1.2 or later, you might have noticed a big upper-case WARNING when starting up Cognos services indicating that your selected PDF Confidentiality algorithm is not permitted. Sounds serious, right? The good news is, it’s easy to resolve.
Although a standard feature of many BI platforms, the ability to schedule PDF report emails is not easily accomplished in Tableau. But hallelujah! That’s all about to change with the next release! And this little bit of love from Tableau is likely to bring them lots more love in the way of adoption.
Business Strategy & Perspectives
Get a better bead on Power BI licensing. Our fictional customer account provides tangible scenarios for when to use Power BI Desktop, Power BI Pro, Power BI Free, Power BI Embedded, Power BI Premium and the availability (or not) of the paginated reporting feature.
