Evaluating people, process and technology for maximum performance and user adoption
Best practices that are critical to follow pre-deployment
Will they accelerate the deployment of datasets, dashboards and reports in your organization?
Decode Cognos reports and models with the report insights utility
Navigating the maze of options in Power BI
Power BI has many strong options when it comes to report distribution. But, puzzling out the right Power BI license to address your reporting requirements is complex. We created a matrix that makes it easy to match up methods of report and dashboard distribution to license.
Microsoft has a dizzying array of relevant, high-impact analytics products. It’s easy to get analysis paralysis trying to decide how to get the most out of their BI offerings. Fear not! our comparison matrix lets you easily view functionality across the tools and cut through the noise.
The potential for deployment failure with Power BI Premium is high if you don’t properly plan capacity and put governance practices in place. We outline three common mistakes we see with clients who have deployed Power BI Premium.
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.
Get a better understanding of 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.
The Microsoft BI front end tools are rich and varied and have also changed and grown over the years. In this blog, we give an overview of the Microsoft business analytics tools, from Power BI to Excel and SQL Server and include a chart that compares their features.
