Category Archives: Process Automation

‘Real-Enough-Time’ Data

I see and hear a whole lot of noise and effort around the acquisition of “Real-Time” data in their Power BI Reports and Dashboards. I argue here that most times this is simply not necessary nor preferred and that it … Continue reading

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Excel Client Is Not Going Away … Business Reporting Needs It.

Business Reporting For Today I am always thinking a lot about the entire Business Reporting environment.  In fact I have done this constantly now for about 40 years, actually.  While I started as a “Real” person” in a “Real” industry … Continue reading

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Excel Pivot Tables or Power BI Matrix ? – Use Both With XLPublish

  Let’s start by just looking at these two “Tables”: Excel Pivot Table: Power BI Matrix Visualization   The Same? Look pretty much the same, eh? Well to the Viewer they are, but for the person distributing this report there … Continue reading

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Self-Service BI Anyone? Your Excel Models with XLPublish and Power BI Offer You That Today !

Brutal Editorial Honesty: This post is intended to convince you to try the XLPublish Add-In for Excel in your work and in your organization. Please read on … Pre-Apology: Here we go … a loong posting that is effectively a … Continue reading

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XLPublish Is Almost Here !

    This is a heads-up about the imminent release of the new XLPublish add-in written by myself and David Hoppe. If you go to our Website ( xlpublish.com )  there is an explanation of what this is. We will … Continue reading

Posted in Business Intelligence, Cloud, Excel, Excel 2013, Power BI, Power BI Desktop, Power Query, PowerPivot, Process Automation, Spreadsheets, the Cloud, XLPublish, XLPublish.com | 3 Comments

How To Really Publish Excel Data To Power BI … Part Deux

A couple of weeks ago I published a length post detailing the techniques I have developed to successfully export Excel data to Power BI.  I have had some interesting responses and I have since evolved my thinking on this, and … Continue reading

Posted in Business Intelligence, Cloud, Excel, Excel 2013, Office 2013, OLAP, Power BI, Power BI Desktop, Process Automation, Spreadsheets, the Cloud, Uncategorized, VBA | 2 Comments

How To Change Data Sources Dynamically In Excel With Power Query

My Crow Eating Exercise This past week I asked on this blog whether anyone out there was using the technique I wrote about years ago for dynamically changing the Source Connections for Power Pivot Tables in Excel.  I have noticed … Continue reading

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How To Change Connection Type In Power Pivot

Every day, day in and day out, the most popular posting I have here is this one: How You Can Change To Another Connection Type In PowerPivot and this one: Building a Flexible and Efficient Client-Side PowerPivot Solution in Excel 2013 I … Continue reading

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Is Power BI For Real ?

Thought of the day … I have been messing around with Power BI for a while now and while it “looks” great and does “good demo” I’m finding it almost impossible to build anything that I can rely on  .. … Continue reading

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This post is about the Windows 10 Start Menu Corruption BS ….

I am going to talk about something that most users of Windows 10 have not run into yet, so most will probably be inclined to just write this post off as irrelevant to them .. Just wait !! This post … Continue reading

Posted in Access, Access Solutions, Business Intelligence, Excel 2013, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Access 2013, Microsoft Excel 2013, Office 2013, Office Automation, PowerPivot, Process Automation, Spreadsheets, the Cloud, Windows 10, Windows 10 Start Menu | 6 Comments