business intelligence

In the ever-evolving landscape of data management, organizations are faced with an array of tools to orchestrate data workflows and enhance business intelligence. Two prominent players in data integration are Microsoft Azure Data Factory and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS). While both are...

In a move that’s sure to elicit a spectrum of reactions from businesses that rely on Power BI, Microsoft has announced its first license fee increase in a decade. Effective April 1, 2025, both Power BI Pro and Premium Per User (PPU) licenses will see a hike in costs. As part of its pricing...

The Microsoft Power BI Publisher for Excel add-in enhances your self-service Business Intelligence experience in Excel. Now you can quickly and easily share key insights in Excel by taking snapshots of cell ranges, PivotTables, and Charts and “Pin” them to dashboards in Power BI. Link Removed

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016 Report Authoring Extension is required to author custom Fetch-based reports for Microsoft Dynamics CRM by using Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools Business Intelligence (BI). Link Removed

The Master Data Services Add-in for Excel gives multiple users the ability to update master data in a familiar tool without compromising the data’s integrity in Master Data Services. Link Removed

With new chart types and improvements to PivotTables and business intelligence (BI), Microsoft Excel 2016 makes it easier to work with large amounts of data and give it even more meaning. Unlock insights, and tell the story in your data by organizing it in spreadsheets (workbooks). View your...

In this video Sachin Patney and Nico Cristache describe the process of creating custom visualizations for Power BI. It is remarkable how easy it is to create any kind of visualization given the framework that's been set up. The best part of their explanation is where they detail the fact that...

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In this weeks episode of Data Exposed, Scott welcomes back Asad Khan, Principle PM on the HDInsight team. Today Asad shows us how easy it is to use 3rd party BI tools like Tableau to do data analysis for better insights into your data. This episode focuses on Tableau and we begin the episode by...

Datazen Publisher for Windows 7 allows you to create stunning data visualizations from Excel, SQL Server, SSAS, SQL Azure, SharePoint and other cloud & enterprise data sources. Link Removed

Content current as of April 2009. Microsoft, with more than 60,000 employees worldwide, and with 2006 revenue exceeding U.S. $50 billion, generates a lot of internal data that the company wanted to centralize to provide it with a more integrated view of its customers. To fill this need...

In this inaugural episode of the SharePoint Sideshow show, Paul Stubbs and Donovan Follette, technical evangelists for SharePoint and Office, respectively, introduce developers to the possibilities of building solutions on the SharePoint and Office platform. Here you’ll see some examples of what...