“Excel & Power BI – Better Together” has been the punch line for many presentations. It’s not just a punch line anymore. It’s real. From its inception, Microsoft had a vision for Power BI; that it would be not only a leading Business Intelligence (BI) tool, but a solid collaboration and presentation platform for corporate data. To support their vision, Microsoft enabled partners to develop
Read MorePlanning with Power BI in the Government Cloud
(GCC and GCC High) State and Local Government and Public Sector can now securely plan in Power BI with Power ON Visual Planning™ Boston Consulting Groups outlines 4 steps to why Planning for Government and Public Sector is even more important than before. Microsoft has taken made a big investment in security and compliance with the Microsoft 365 Government Community Cloud (GCC). It is easy
Read MoreTop 5 reasons Fortune 500 Companies choose Power BI for Planning.
Planning in a Rut? Corporate Planning and the tools supporting it, is just one of many business processes that have stagnated over time. Today many organizations are still using outdated 3rd party tools, manual processes, spreadsheets, or the “back of a cocktail napkin” to accomplish the Planning process. Why? Because real planning is hard , takes many iterations, and often ends up in a different
Read MoreThe 1 Thing The Pandemic Taught Us About Business Planning and Forecasting
It goes without saying that the pandemic shook the business world. With shelter-in-place orders around the globe, virtual meetings instead of physical visits, and shifting relationships between organizations and their partners, the old way of doing business is gone. But through that event, a fundamental truth has been revealed. Post-pandemic, it has become perhaps the most important aspect for a business to succeed and even thrive in the face of the
Read MoreThe Most Magical Time of 2021
May 4th 2021 will be on of most exciting days for people interested in BI, Analytics, Cloud, Azure, Planning, AI, and Forecasting. If you have not already signed up, you should: In 2020, Microsoft launched game changing visions of Composite Models, and delivered on it. Later in the year they built further on this and introduced Premium Per User. Hardly any product team inside Microsoft
Read MoreMicrosoft ahead in Gartner Magic Quadrant
Is Microsoft even further ahead than given credit for in 2021 BI Magic Quadrant? Intro The Gartner Magic Quadrant is a valuable and much anticipated read whether you are a professional developing a Business Intelligence solution or an end-user. Especially if you are in the Microsoft Power BI and Azure camp. For 13 years running Gartner presented Microsoft Power BI as a leader; most recently
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