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 Today many organizations are still using outdated 3rd party tools, manual processes, spreadsheets, or the “back of a cocktail napkin” to accomplish the Planning process.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
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Integrated Planning in Power BI There is no need for specialized planning solutions any longer. Power BI enables corporations to build advanced planning solutions the entire organization: Analyze, Report, and Plan in Power BI In 3 steps your organization could be enabled for better, more accurate and faster decision making where a larger group of the organization can participate. All with using standard Power BI
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
Read MoreGame-Changing Planning and Forecasting with Power BI
Power BI keeps innovating. In November 2019 Microsoft released the long awaited Decomposition Tree. This enables companies to analyze, forecast and make predictions to support decision-making.
Read MoreWrite-back Options in Power BI
Early January 2018, Microsoft launched a new custom visual that enables users to enter data in Power BI. Basically, the custom visual opens up a Power Apps solution, checks permission for the end-user, and let end-users add, modify and delete data directly in the SQL Database. Now there are multiple ways to let end-users analyze and edit data in Power BI: What is Write-Back? Write-back
Read MorePlanning Process and Solutions are in Transition
Budget Once – Forecast Forever Power BI provides unparalleled ability to analyze your data, uncover potentials and reveal problems. Exactly what you need when creating budgets or doing forecasting. Why is it that traditional BI solutions do not have forecasting capabilities, except IBM Planning Analytics? IBM just combined Cognos and Watson to enable customers to gain insights AND plan for the business in one solution!
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