Utilising Natural Eye Movement for Effective Power BI Reporting
Author: Tamica McNally Introduction When we first land on a page of information, our eyes will naturally scan in certain patterns. This pattern is determined by the layout, prominence and size of text and images. While reading a book, our eyes follow a distinct pattern. In languages like English, we start at the top left […]
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Our Top Picks and Insights from the Power BI & Fabric Summit 2024
The Power BI and Fabric Summit 2024 united an exceptional community of data enthusiasts, and our Purple Peeps thoroughly enjoyed diving into the latest trends and innovations. Here are our top session picks and insights, from Juan, Sallie, Teresa, and Heidi. Juan’s Insights Data Management Gets a Power-Up With Fabric Onelake Microsoft’s demos showcasing the […]
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Microsoft Fabric Copilot: First Look-Test Drive, Power BI
Author: Etienne Oosthuysen This is the first of several Fabric 'first look' Copilot test drives. In this post, I will focus on Copilot for Power BI, with Data Science and Data Engineering, and Data Factory test drives to follow in subsequent articles. But before we jump, a bit of background, then some pre-requisites, some housekeeping, [...]
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Defence Industries – Workforce Planning Tool
The Problem Our Defence Industries Client had previously forecast project resource requirements over the life of their projects. However, the process was manually intensive and did not integrate and utilise a number of relevant data sources. Defence Industries often involve having large-scale projects with extended timeframes. The scale of these projects often has a noticeable impact on the labour market as […]
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Power BI: Make a table 10 times smaller (and 10 times faster) by adding more data
Author: Lynton Mack Know your column store indexing! These are not databases! Recently, I had a case from one of our Financial Institute clients where a Power BI dataset containing daily account balances was over 1GB in size and not refreshing in the service, and I was tasked to reduce its size. I managed to […]
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Software Provider – From Foundation to Reporting
The Problem This client provides comprehensive software solutions and business automation tools to small business owners. This client has a customisable solution used internally across the organisation, where management reports are generated on a frequent and ad-hoc basis. These reports ensure client data reconciles across multiple data sources, such as Salesforce and Zuora. As a […]
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Power BI Incremental Refresh for Faster Dataset Refreshes
Power BI Incremental Refresh for Faster Dataset Refreshes Author: Ralph Gonzales In today’s day and age, data is the new gold. Companies keep track of all the data they generate as it aids in understanding their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and efficiency. Many companies have adopted a data-driven approach in their strategies and decision-making to further […]
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Our Top Picks, Insights and Key Learnings from the Power BI Summit 2023 – Part Three
Our Top Picks, Insights and Key Learnings from the Power BI Summit 2023 – Part Three Author: Willem Herbst With this being my first time attending the Power BI Summit, I was unsure what to expect exactly. The agenda was packed full of interesting sessions and discussions, and it quickly became apparent that I would […]
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Our Top Picks, Insights and Key Learnings from the Power BI Summit 2023 – Part Two
Our Top Picks, Insights and Key Learnings from the Power BI Summit 2023 – Part Two Author: Rachael Potts The 2023 Power BI Summit, hosted by RADACAD, was packed with presentations by well-known and experienced presenters, including expose’s own Heidi Hasting who, held a session on Power BI Report Server – Things to know. With […]
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Our Top Picks, Insights and Key Learnings from the Power BI Summit 2023 – Part One
Our Top Picks, Insights and Key Learnings from the Power BI Summit 2023 – Part One Author: Herika Medeiros The Power BI Summit is the biggest annual Power BI conference and is run virtually across five days. It brings the best and brightest from around the globe, including Microsoft’s Power BI product group, community experts […]
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Capacity Planning Tool – our utility case study
Problem: One of our major utility customers identified that their current process for planning resources to meet the demand was not sustainable. Daily, there would be hundreds of customer calls requiring a myriad of different services, planned maintenance work as well as corporate demand. These calls often required crews of different levels of skills […]
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Preparing an enterprise BI platform – our Glen Eira City Council case study
Testimonial: Scott Morrow – Co-ordinator Service Excellence, Glen Eira City Council: “The team at Exposé was very pleasant and professional to work with. That, combined with their exceptional domain expertise relating to Microsoft and the Power BI Service mean that Glen Eira now has the necessary foundation, architecture, and governance to support our analytical needs […]
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