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Category Archives: Spreadsheets
‘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
Do You Really Need/Want All That Detailed Data In Your Power BI or Tableau Or Other DataSets?
Huh ? I remember some years ago standing next to an IT guy at the biggest Brewing company in Canada of the time. He proudly showed me a new product he had created that allowed the President (down the hall) … Continue reading
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
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
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
New Feature In XLPublish – Multi Workspace Publish
While XLPublish is already a complete and mature piece of tech at this point, we have added one new feature that you might find useful, Multi-Workspace Publishing With the introduction of App Workspaces in Power BI (a great way to … Continue reading
Modeloff GTC in New York City – Dec 4-5, 2017
Just a note that I will be in New York on Monday and Tuesday Dec 4 & 5 exhibiting and presenting at: Modeloff GTC New York I will be showing the latest iteration of the XLPublish add-in on exhibit with … Continue reading
XLPublish Is Here !!!
Today Personal Logic Associates Inc. is proud to ship XLPublish – our new Add-in for Excel that makes publishing your Excel data in Power BI Easy, Reliable and Repeatable. With XLPublish you can make your current Excel Ranges, Tables, Pivot … Continue reading
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
How To Really Publish Excel Data To Power BI … Part Deux (amended again)
It has been brought to my attention that the formatting I chose for my Blog post on this makes for a difficult to copy and paste the code I listed into an Excel module without significant effort (like fixing doub;t-quotes, … Continue reading
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