Category Archives: the Cloud

‘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 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

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

OK .. Let’s go … Part III … !! In this post I will try to explain how (and especially how not) to get your Excel data into Power BI Desktop in a way that will allow you to schedule refreshes … Continue reading

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How To Really Publish Excel Data To Power BI … Part Deux (amended)

Just a quick note for those that looked at and perhaps tried out the code in the post of a couple of weeks ago ( https://dmoffat.wordpress.com/2016/09/29/how-to-really-publish-excel-data-to-power-bi-part-deux/)  .   I have made a very small but very important change to the … Continue reading

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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

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How To Really Publish Excel Data To Power BI

OK .. I’m going to try to make this as short as I possibly can. I am sick of docs that do not explain to people how to REALLY accomplish something 😦  … I want this to be different but … 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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