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Our “Dog-Eat-Dog” IT World Is A Very Real And Destructive Path With No Good End
This was just posted on LinkedIn … I was struck by the sentiment of this guy and although I feel sorry for him it might make him feel better if you knows that he’s far from alone… Not that there … Continue reading
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‘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
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
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
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
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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