Ebeneezer sat there rubbing his hands with glee as the phone rang off the hook. “Hello, Ebeneezer’s taxis… name, where from, where too?” Rather than chancing their arm, people seemed to like that a taxi would turn up right on time, just for them. He...Read More

When I decided I wanted to start a Power Platform Consultancy, I was doing it with very mixed feelings. Across my career I have worked with many of the big consulting firms as well as smaller consulting firms. I have had mixed experiences, and one...Read More

Last week, we looked up the use of context within time intelligence and how time intelligence can be used to introduce some of the concepts of context within the Power BI platform. Context is a key part of any Analytics platform, so many of the...Read More

Intelligent use of time implies wisdom, so when we talk about time intelligence patterns, what does it mean and how can we apply it to our analysis? Time Intelligence is the practice of applying your calendar or time dimension to your measures. Think about your...Read More

Ask any experienced Data Professional, “What’s the most important table in Analytics?” They will all tell you the same table, but with many different names. “Dates”, “Calendar” and “DimDates”… to name a few. The Calendar in Analytics is so important because most report packs have...Read More

The last three weeks have been introductions for many into the world of what is needed to achieve business success as far as your data is concerned. This topic is one where the certainties are normally the legal limits of what you can do. In...Read More

What kind of environment have you been cultivating at work, how is your data literacy? Are you aware of the rationale behind the data your organisation collects, why and how? What do you understand about your data? If we take the term improving the health...Read More

Ethics, its massive, it’s a word that is on everybody’s lips. It implies fairness and justice, equality. Ethics is – “the philosophical discipline concerned with what is morally good and bad and morally right and wrong”, so it intersects hugely with values and bias. Remember...Read More

 I’d like to iterate from the off, this is a 50 000ft view of a massive subject …. So data governance in a compact and convenient nutshell, what is it and why is it more important than ever before? Modern day life and access to...Read More

Announced in early 2023, Fabric is the name being given to a largely existing suite of applications within Azure (and O365). Bringing all data services under a unified heading. There are simplifications and deduplication within the structure as (currently) separate workloads can be unified for...Read More