If you are interested in using Power BI for your organization, and you want to determine what licenses you’ll need to buy and how much your monthly costs are. It’s a little confusing to know what you will need, and we are here to help. This article simplifies the Poser Bi pricing to help you make an informed choice.
Using Microsoft Power BI in data engineering We have a lot of discussions with clients about a desire to do “better reporting”. They have been using Power BI but feel they now need a data warehouse to create reports that will give them all the info they need. Fundamentally, organizations often have an analytics problem, one for which a data warehouse forms part of the solution, however, the complexities lie in the data. Often organizations…
The Power of DevOps in Business Intelligence Common pain points experienced when building Business Intelligence (BI) data assets, and how Imaginet uses DevOps to mitigate them If you’re a Business Intelligence developer, have you experienced some of these challenges? One team member overwrites the changes of another team member accidentally, such as when someone uses an outdated Power BI Desktop file and publishes to a workspace Someone didn’t deploy or publish all the necessary changes…
One of the best parts of my job as a Business Intelligence (BI) consultant is what happens when Imaginet engages with a new BI customer. In many cases, our first engagement with a customer who is challenged by their BI and/or reporting capabilities is our Imaginet Power BI Quick Start. This is typically a one or two week intensive engagement where an Imaginet Business Intelligence consultant (like me) embeds themselves into a team within an…
Power Query Function for Dense Ranking Recently I was having issues writing a measure in DAX to rank items properly (not an issue with the DAX, but in my understanding of the DAX). I did some searching and came across Chris Webb’s article that had a nice implementation of ranking using Power Query. The technique he proposed uses Power Query to: sort a table by the column you want to rank by, add an index column…
Power Query for Azure Tables and Updating Column Names I recently did some PowerBI work using Azure Table Storage. In the query editor, it seemed that each table I pulled in from Azure Tables had a very similar process.: Get the list of tables available for the storage account. Select a table Select the Content of the table (excluding the RowKey, PartitionKey, and timestamp columns) Expand the columns in the Content Rename the columns Azure…
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