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 […]
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A Modern Data Analytics and User Engagement Platform – our South Australian Local Council case study
Find out how we enabled this South Australian Local Council to help achieve its strategic objective and move closer towards becoming a smart city by designing and delivering a Modern Data Analytics and User Engagement Platform, which provides rapid and reliable analytics along with the ability to add new analytics workloads swiftly and securely. Read our case study here.
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Power BI Report Server and BI Platform Upgrade – our PIRSA case study
The Department for Primary Industries and Regions South Australia (PIRSA) faced an increased demand for consumption of Power BI dashboards and reports in a modern and centralised platform. With the business not quite ready to move to the cloud, we architected and created a solution that could serve as a stepping stone that could satisfy […]
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Building a unified model for consistent and coherent team reporting – our City of Adelaide case study
Author: Rory Tarnow-Mordi We created a unified model for the City of Adelaide across fragmented data sources (including on-premise, cloud, file-based and SaaS) to deliver a consistent and coherent reporting solution across different teams. Manual, costly and inconsistent preparation and curation efforts were eliminated through the automated solution, delivering a single source of interactive Customer […]
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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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Establishing a corporate report style and data model framework – our Local Government case study
Our Local Government case study shows how the establishment of a corporate report style and data model framework greatly assisted business report designers build their operational reports in a more streamlined fashion with greater consistency, and provide the IT team a foundation to expand on. Read the case study here: exposé case study – Local […]
Read MoreData is the new oil – read about our growth story so far
Data is the new oil – read about our growth story as a group so far in The Advertiser!
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Smart Wastewater network – our SA Water case study
This solution enables greater customer service through better management of the wastewater assets through an industry-leading smart wastewater network management solution. It incorporates a leading edge architecture built on the Azure platform using key technologies including Databricks, IoT, Stream Analytics, App Service, and more. Read our case study here: Smart Wastewater network – our SA Water […]
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Self Service BI Enterprise Rollout – our Victorian Government case study
A Victorian Public Sector case study – A self-service BI journey from ad-hoc to enterprise grade deployment. Read it here: Exposé case study – Self Service BI Enterprise Rollout – Victorian Government
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Branch locations and success criteria using predictive analytics – our Agribusiness case study
Exposé designed and developed a solution that uncovered whether there were strong relationships between known characteristics of branches and their success in order to determine new locations to be considered and the services they will offer. See our case study here: exposé case study – Agribusiness – Branch locations and success criteria using predictive analytics
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Tableau Prep – we test drive this new user-centred data preparation tool
Data preparation is undoubtedly one of the most competency-reliant and time-consuming parts of report generation. For this reason, it is fast becoming the new focal area for further development and we are seeing a large uptick in the number of options being made available to help alleviate these issues. One recent entrant to this space […]
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