Key Differences Between a Data Lake vs Data Warehouses – Which One is Best for You?
By Aaron Kaiser Legacy data warehousing as well as other analytical systems can be slow and stubborn to adapt. Using a data lake to bring your data architecture into the future can be an effective way to continue leveraging existing investments, begin harnessing different types of data, and ultimately gaining insights faster. IT executives are […]
10 Ways Cloud Managed Service Providers can Transform and Streamline Your Operations
By Aaron Kaiser Managed Cloud, Managed Cloud Providers Cloud Managed Services providers refers to the practice of outsourcing your daily IT management of your cloud-based needs to an outside vendor to supplement your technical support your cloud managed solutions and enhance your business performance and operations. Often, internal IT resources don’t possess the skills or have […]
Microsoft Power BI Governance Webinar
Join the Webinar Thursday | September 12, 2019, 1:00 PM EST Learn how to implement governance around Power BI to ensure scalability, security & long-term success Organizations today are experiencing missteps when implementing Power BI due to the lack of planning and rolling out a strategic governance strategy around their implementation. When businesses fail to […]
Three things to do before building your reports in Power BI
Overview You have started learning Power BI, the service is set up, and you have your first request to build a dashboard. As tempting as it may be just to load a data source and start building your first report, it is essential that you take a moment and do the following three things first. […]
Power BI Index Strategies
Power BI is an amazing tool and is being used more and more by small and medium-sized businesses, but something that arises regularly, is the eventual sluggishness of both Power BI, as well as the databases it is connected too. While this can be caused by many factors, I would like to go over the […]
Power BI Book Signing Event: June 10th at 4:45PM
Errin O’Connor Book Signing at the Microsoft Business Applications Summit on June 10th at 4:45pm
What is an Office 365 Group
Whether you’re new to Office 365 or you’re not quite certain of how to use Groups or their related benefits, you’re not alone. This question has been asked by a lot of stakeholders within companies who are either migrating their on-premise environment to Office 365 or settings up a new Office 365 tenant all together. […]
How to Setup Workspaces, Share Content and Publish Apps in Power BI
In Power BI, one can easily create Workspaces to allow specific groups of people to access and edit Power BI reports and dashboards created with these spaces. The Workspaces and Apps are situated in the cloud version of Power BI called Service. After setting these reports, these workspaces can be published as an application for […]
Microsoft Teams Change Management & User Adoption
How to boost your MS Teams Adoption By Aaron Kaiser Change Management Strategy Before you introduce the full power of MS Teams to your users it’s important to implement a focused change management strategy for training users on the new business processes that increase efficiency and reduce risk. Having a thorough Change Management Strategy […]
Microsoft Teams and Whiteboard
Microsoft Teams Updates: The Latest Microsoft has been doing an excellent job updating their MS Teams application with additional functionality. Recently, they’ve integrated another one of their Office 365 applications called Whiteboard. Whiteboard What is Whiteboard, you might be asking. Whiteboard is a neat application that functions as a free-form digital canvas. Think of […]
Power BI Governance Practices and Strategies
Power BI Governance: A Quick Background By Aaron Kaiser Governance is the business practice that defines and manages strategies for people, processes and technologies to ensure that valuable data assets are formally protected and managed throughout your business. Your IT team leverages governance and change management strategies with updates to the data sources and target systems […]
Business Intelligence Features in Excel
Leveraging Power BI to get the most from Microsoft Excel By Aaron Kaiser Microsoft’s new BI tool “Power BI” can seamlessly integrate with a plethora of Business Intelligence features from Microsoft Excel, including: Power Query Power View PowerPivot Power Map All these features can be a little confusing as there are so many options to […]
Power BI vs Tableau
Which of these powerful tools is going to be best for your business? By Aaron Kaiser This question has been on the minds of many CIOs and Senior IT leaders for many years now. Unfortunately there is no clear winner in this debate, as both are great tools to gain additional knowledge on your data. […]
Office 365 Governance Best Practices
What is Office 365 Governance? When applying Office 365 as a solution or even when using applications outside of Microsoft, the word Governance comes up a lot. What exactly is it and why is it important for our implementation? According to Microsoft, Governance is “The set of policies, roles, responsibilities, and processes that control how […]
Configuring Row Level Security (RLS) in Power BI Desktops
Implementing a Business Intelligence (BI) platform is absolutely critical to any organization, as it offers data visualizations in real time to provide actionable metrics needed to improve decisions making. In all of these BI processes, Business Intelligence-related security is absolutely key and it’s a critical conversation that is happening in organizations throughout the globe. EPC […]
Microsoft Teams vs. Slack
With the capacity to connect thousands of users and over 800 third-party applications, Slack has been the leading communication tool for users and their file sources. Microsoft decided to join that market when it released a new communications platform called Microsoft Teams, which has become the big contender for this type of enterprise solution. MS […]
