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Power BI Copilot: Natural Language Analytics for Business Users
Use descriptive table and column names that match business terminology. Add measure descriptions explaining what each calculation represents. Create…
Business Intelligence
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Power BI Copilot: AI-Powered Business Intelligence
Power BI Copilot makes data analysis accessible to everyone through natural language.
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Semantic Layer for AI: Building Business-Ready Data Interfaces
A semantic layer enables AI to understand business terminology and generate accurate queries.
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Reading Charts and Dashboards with GPT-4o: What to Trust
Where GPT-4o vision helps data teams read charts and dashboard screenshots, what it gets wrong, what each image costs, and how to check its numbers in code.
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Analytics Modernization: From Legacy BI to AI-Powered Insights
Analytics modernization is a journey, not a destination. Start with clear goals, measure progress, and continuously evolve your analytics capabilities.
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Power BI in Microsoft Fabric: Unified Business Intelligence
Power BI in Fabric provides seamless BI capabilities that connect directly to your unified data layer. Tomorrow, I will cover Fabric Capacities and pricing.
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Introducing Power BI Goals for OKR and KPI Tracking
Power BI Goals arrived in 2021 as Microsoft's answer to OKR tracking inside the BI platform, and I think it was better conceived than it might sound. The…
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Power BI Premium Gen2 - Enhanced Performance and New Capabilities
Premium Gen2 introduces several architectural improvements: Autoscale compute resources based on demand No need for capacity management or monitoring v…
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Azure Analysis Services for Enterprise Semantic Models
A semantic model sits between raw data and end user tools, providing: Business friendly names and descriptions Calculated measures and KPIs Row level…
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Power BI Paginated Reports for Operational Reporting
Paginated reports excel when you need: Pixel perfect formatting for print Multi page documents with headers/footers Parameter driven report generation…
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Power BI Premium Per User - Enterprise Features for Everyone
Power BI Premium Per User launched as the answer to "my team needs paginated reports, deployment pipelines, and large dataset support but we don't have a…
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Databricks SQL Analytics in Preview: What to Test Before You Commit
SQL Analytics on Azure Databricks is in public preview. Here is what it is, how to pilot it properly, and when Synapse or Power BI alone is the better fit.