Reasons to avoid gradient backgrounds on Power BI reports
Gradient backgrounds are all the rage in dashboard design. They appear to be floating around everywhere. Looks cool right? Perhaps. I am not a fan, and for some time have found it hard to articulate to others why this is the case. My verbal utterances were never much more than “it makes me go cross-eyed […]
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7 Favourite Power BI Summit Sessions from the Purple Peeps
The Power BI Summit was hosted by RADACAD with some 1000+ attendees and 100+ speakers – a mix of the Power BI Product team, Microsoft MVPs and Professionals. The sessions were targeted for beginner to intermediate level users with some more advanced topics available. By far the biggest value came from Q&A sessions, hearing from […]
Read MoreExposé at Ignite 2021 – our main takeaways
Author: Etienne Oosthuysen The Microsoft technology stack, specifically Azure, has over the past few years provided many best-of-breeds solutions to common data problems and tackled the data analytics domain with a different approach to its competitors (AWS and GCP). And recent changes saw them consolidate and tightly couple some of the key data resources which […]
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exposé Digital Twin – an ABA100 Winner for New Product Innovation in The Australian Business Awards 2020
Author: Etienne Oosthuysen We are excited to announce that the exposé Digital Twin has been recognised as an ABA100 Winner in The Australian Business Awards 2020 for New Product Innovation. Now in their fifteenth year, The Australian Business Awards program recognises organisations for the successful development of new and improved products and services and for […]
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Azure Synapse Analytics – the essential Spark cheat sheet
Author: Nghia Nguyen In this article, I take the Apache Spark service for a test drive. It is the third in our Synapse series: The first article provides an overview of Azure Synapse, and in our second, we take the SQL on-demand feature for a test drive and provided some resulting observations. This article contains […]
Read MoreAzure Synapse Analytics – the essential SQL on-demand cheat sheet
Author: Etienne Oosthuysen Disclaimer: as Azure Synapse Analytics is still in Public Preview, some areas may not yet function as it will in a full General Availability stage. This article contains the Synapse SQL on-demand test drive as well as a cheat sheet that describes how to get up and running step-by-step. I then conclude […]
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Azure Synapse Analytics – Insights for all and breaking down silos
Author: Etienne Oosthuysen (And a party down the lakehouse) Cloud databases are a way for enterprises to avoid large capital expenditures, they can be provisioned quickly, and they can provide performance at scale. But data workloads continue to change, fast, which means conventional databases alone (including those running in data warehouse configurations) can no longer […]
Read MoreDigital Twin – Topical use cases
Being left behind in an increasingly digital world is a scary thought. Gartner predicts that this year alone, organisations with digital trustworthiness will have a substantial advantage (of up to 20% increased revenue in online channels) compared to their competitors. In our previous article, Digital Twins – Why all the fuss, we introduced the concept […]
Read MoreDigital Twins – Why all the fuss?
Author: Etienne Oosthuysen What do Twins, NASA, Pokémon Go, the Internet of Things, Big Data and business value have in common? As our landscape changes to embrace digital integration, the physical and virtual worlds are moving closer together than ever before. As flagged by Gartner, digital twins are pegged to be a key strategic technology […]
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The STEM gender gap and how we can lead the way for the next generation
Author: Etienne Oosthuysen Authored by Emma Girvan and Sandra Raznjevic In our continued partnership with St. Peter’s Collegiate Girls’ School, we were honoured to be invited to attend the inaugural Women in STEM Breakfast on Thursday 23 May, which was hosted by Year 10-12 students. This fantastic event included over 30 female industry professionals who […]
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Exposé – the 2019 Microsoft Worldwide Partner of the Year, runner up in the category of Power BI
We are delighted to announce that Exposé has been named as the runner up for the 2019 Microsoft Global Partner of the year award in the category Power BI. We’re proud to add this global award to our two previous Microsoft Australian Partner Awards in 2016 and 2017. This achievement is no small feat given […]
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Say that Again? Power BI Commentary extends to Reports
Author: Etienne Oosthuysen Power BI recently announced the extension of its commentary capability to Power BI reports. Yes, you can now add comments to both report pages or specific visuals to improve your data discussions! These conversations are automatically bookmarked, so the report context is retained exactly as the comment was written, complete with the […]
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