Recently I started a blog series on different topics that come into play when you want to transform a local (small scale) solution into a global (enterprise) solution. I started this series explaining some typical differences between local and global solutions as you can find in the introduction post of this series. This week, the …
Continue reading Transform a local into a global Power BI solution – Content sharing
The Power BI team has invested a lot over the past year in making datasets better discoverable in the Power BI Service. This helps on many aspects to drive a data culture within your organization, aim for a single source of truth, collaboration within the organization and much more! In this blog post I will …
Continue reading Transform a local into a global Power BI solution – Introduction
Recently, I have presented a webinar about Driving a data culture in your organization. During this webinar, I presented what challenges you might face, what mistakes are made often and what you can do to drive a data culture in your organization! In this blog, I will introduce the topic Data Culture and elaborate on …
Continue reading Driving a data culture with Power BI – Part 1 – What is a data culture?
Back in May 2020, I wrote a blogpost about visual customization in Power BI reports. The feature was released in preview with the April 2020 release. Now, the Power BI team made another update to the feature by supporting perspectives in Power BI to be assigned to the visual customization feature. In this blogpost I …
Continue reading Power BI visual customization – using perspectives
The Power BI team releases many new features in every monthly release, which is an amazing achievement to make it happen every time. Having all this new functionality on your fingertips is a great experience, but not all functionality is production ready yet. Every now and then, functionality is in public preview, which means that …
Continue reading Power BI Governance – New functionality? Govern the implementation in phases
Back in January 2020, I visited the Power BI Days in Belgium, where I had a talk about custom page navigation in Power BI. I already started playing around with the Power BI REST API and URLs to create a personalized navigation. As other bloggers might recognize, I ended-up as a draft blog but I …
Let's start this blog with a scenario. I think all of us, who are a (Power) BI professional, have been in this situation... Once you start a new project, you gain all the requirements for a newly to be created report, interview a representative group of users and you start building the report. After a …
Imagine that you are building a Power BI dataset for corporate reporting, that will also be reused for self-service purposes by many others. It is up to you, as dataset author, to make it as simple as possible for them to reuse your content and avoid misunderstandings. In this blog I will give more detail …
Continue reading Share your Power BI dataset and spice up your table and column names
The drill through functionality is in Power BI for a long time and already made huge steps forward. Though, one of the most challenging things with this very valuable feature was the discoverability. Hidden behind the right-click, not every user was able to use this feature or not even know that it is there. Let me take you through the biggest game-changers for drill through in Power BI and close-off with the recently launched (preview) feature in the March 2020 release!
As Power BI enthusiasts and consultants, we are building tons of reports. All with the goal to enable the business to take data driven decisions by providing them with the right information at the right time. Though, if your reporting audience is growing, there is no way to satisfy all your users. Of course, the …
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