I find it interesting that Microsoft and Google have chosen to gate their latest data-driven improvements to their spreadsheets behind their most expensive enterprise licenses. These new features are great,… Read more »
I bought an Nvidia Shield (2017 model) on sale for $140 at the end of 2018 and am amazed by how much this tiny device can accomplish. It’s connected to… Read more »
As a Power BI consultant I use many custom visuals from the AppSource marketplace and have tested many more, if not most of them. The good news is that there… Read more »
Most people working for a single organization are unlikely to run into this use case, but if you’re a consultant like me then this issue will annoy you. In Power… Read more »
Fulfilling a long-standing request to make it easier to administrate Power BI content, it is now possible to use a dataset from one app workspace as the source for a… Read more »
I’ve spent countless hours comparing features in the various map visuals available for Microsoft Power BI. Each has their strengths and weaknesses and there is not a single option that… Read more »
Zapier is in a great position to get the pulse of which cloud software has traction in the small business world (and in departments of larger organizations, to a lesser… Read more »
These past couple of years I’ve worked extensively with Microsoft Power BI, which in many ways is “the next Excel”, but because it is much more recent, it still has… Read more »
Note: entry originally published in November 2014, maintained regularly since then. By definition Software as a Service is easier to roll out than on-premises software because you don’t have to install… Read more »
The explosion in the quantity and quality of both commercial APIs and open source projects is a huge enabler for digital start-ups and small businesses. Instead of painfully rolling your… Read more »