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Nobody-Asked-Me Advice to Makers of Custom Visuals for Power BI

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 »

best & worst practices, Power BI, user experience   

Using Dataflows from Multiple Tenants in Power BI Desktop

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 »

Power BI, user experience   

How To Use Live Connection Reports Across Workspaces with #PowerBI

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 »

cool tools, Power BI, software   

The Legend in Power BI Maps: When to Call ‘Feature Complete’?

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 »

building online products, maps & territories, Power BI, software, user experience   

Fast Growing Apps As Seen by Zapier

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 »

web apps & SaaS   

Power BI: The Missing Productivity Features

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 »

Power BI, software, user experience   

Saas Integration: Trends & Players

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 »

web apps & SaaS, web services & APIs   

Ideas to Improve Software Documentation, Raise Productivity of Mere Mortals

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 »

best & worst practices, building online products   

Microsoft Outlook As A Platform, Take 2: From the Desktop to the Cloud

This 2004 entry was updated from the 2016-18 vantage point. If there’s an area where the shift from client-server to the cloud is most dramatic, this is it! Keep reading… Read more »

software, web apps & SaaS   
SSO signup

Sign Up Using SSO, Done Right

Kudos to SurveyMonkey for their very clear, user-friendly sign up form (pictured above) that lets you sign up with your existing Google, Facebook,or Microsoft credentials. They’re far from the only SaaS… Read more »

best & worst practices, user experience, web apps & SaaS, web services & APIs   

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