In the day to day operations of businesses speed of delivery, cost effectiveness, and satisfaction of outcome is a trifecta of challenges we run against as report authors. Picking and choosing what parts to deliver, and when, determines the overall success of a given report. However, we typically can’t do [...]
Themes are the bedrock of consistency. As report authors it is important to create a consistent experience in a single, series or multitude of reports. With a little forethought you can easily build reports that exhibit the same fonts, properties and many other aspects with a Power BI Theme. If [...]
2021-12-15Comments Off on Discussing SQLBI’s 7 Reasons DAX is Not Easy
First of all, go read this amazing blog put out by Alberto Ferrari over at SQLBI that he posted awhile ago. It is the context for the conversation we had and is well worth the read. 7 Reason DAX is Not Easy If you are new to DAX you will [...]
2021-12-12Comments Off on Data Culture with Matthew Roche
This month we partnered with the relaunch of the Des Moines user group to host Matthew Roche. This month’s topic is all about data culture. If you don’t know Matthew you should get to know him. His experience in developing enterprise data access is second to none. Along this journey [...]
2021-12-09Comments Off on Measuring Data Culture Success
This topic was gleaned from the absolute wealth of knowledge put down in the MSFT Power BI Adoption Roadmap. We highly recommend you check the full roadmap. In this episode, we focused in on Data Culture, this topic is a bit ambiguous as it relates to how you measure the [...]
2021-12-07Comments Off on All Columns have Data Types in DAX, Or do they?
To say this another way. Not all columns have datatypes in DAX, specifically speaking to using dynamic ranking with an “Other” category. Let me explain. The Tabular model is comprised of tables with typed columns. This is a truth learned in one’s Tabular infancy. Whether the table is imported, calculated, [...]
2021-12-02Comments Off on Trolling the Power BI Ideas Site
Trolling… we should clear up the definition of this right off the bat. We aren’t talking about the type of trolling where we spend a bunch of time finding things on the Power BI Ideas site and say obnoxious things about them to elicit a response. We may say obnoxious [...]
2021-11-27Comments Off on Power BI Formal vs. Self-Training
We’ve been having an amazing amount of fun having conversations on our podcast “Explicit Measures”. Join us live on Tuesdays and Thursdays on YouTube or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcast. During our podcast this last week, we talked about which method is better when trying to learn all the [...]
2021-10-19Comments Off on Business Ops: New and Updated External Tools
Howdy, folks! This past weekend, I was a man on a mission. There were two pressing reasons for a new release of Business Ops: The authors of many popular External Tools released updates recently, so we needed to ship a new version of Business Ops with those updates includedLast week, [...]
2021-10-06Comments Off on Using the Power BI Scanner API to Manage Tenant’s Entire Metadata
Much thanks must go to both Ferry Bouwman and Rui Romano for inspiration and building off the work they have done already for the use cases for the Scanner API. Ferry created the initial Microsoft Flow to automate the request and pull of data, and design ideas were taken by [...]
2021-10-03Comments Off on Business Ops Update: Bugfix
Howdy folks! We have just published a bugfix release for Business Ops; Version 2.0.2 is now available for download. Please see the instructions below for details. Instructions If you have installed Business Ops 2.0 or [...]
Where does the Power BI Mobile app fit within your report building plan? This topic is widely un-discussed within the Power BI community. Many blogs and tutorials focus mainly on developing Power BI reports for [...]
2021-09-23Comments Off on Three New Time-Saving Scripts for Tabular Editor
Howdy folks! I just published three new scripts for Tabular Editor to the PowerBI.tips “TabularEditor-Scripts” repository on GitHub yesterday. So, I wanted to take a moment to explain what they do, and why you should [...]
2021-09-12Comments Off on Copy Power BI Desktop Server:Port Connection String to Clipboard
Howdy, folks! A few months ago, I was writing and running various PowerShell scripts to manipulate the connected data models in my Power BI Desktop files. During model development, I was constantly having to open [...]
2021-05-19Comments Off on Standardizing KPI’s around a Business Intelligence Team
This article follows from Episode 5 of the new Explicit Measures Podcast, a whole new way to talk about Power BI. If this article strikes you as relevant, subscribe to the podcast on Spotify, Apple, [...]
2021-05-11Comments Off on How to Represent Your Power BI Skills
This is part 3 of 3 in a series designed to help Power BI users and enthusiasts. The first post focuses on identifying the dizzying array of skills that make up the Power BI ecosystem. [...]
One of the biggest improvements you can make to your life and career is embracing a learning mentality. If you are here, I assume one of your interest areas is Power BI. This post is [...]
There is a strong advantage to use all the Power Platform tools together, Power Apps, Power BI, and Power Automate. This article provides cases to use these applications together as a complete product. […]
Power BI Version Control is a free, fully packaged solution that lets users apply version control, local editing and manage PBIX or PBIT files. The solution is fully in the Power Platform and SharePoint environment. [...]
Power BI took the BI world by storm 5 years ago, there has been a release of the Power BI Desktop almost every single month. The infant that was Power BI has grown into a [...]
