Tag: Business Intelligence

Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) Tools Can Jumpstart your BI Initiative

I often get asked about Business Intelligence and related tools, as dashboards and data integration have become so common today, and everyone wants “instant information”.  After all, aren’t we all information workers today?

Since my company is a Microsoft Partner, doing Dynamics (GP, SL and CRM) business applications, my first recommendation is to “look close to home”.  You may be surprised how much existing BI you already own and are not utilizing if you use Microsoft products.  (Dynamics, SQL, SharePoint, Office)  The Microsoft BI toolkit is not a lightweight player in the BI market, as you can see from the 2013 Gartner’s Magic Quadrant graphic below.

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March 19, 2015

Get your Elbows Dirty with BI

I love listening to the Kane Show on Hot 99.5 during my morning commutes into the office.  So I couldn’t resist using Arnetta’s saying in the title of this month’s blog.   When someone calls in to the Kane Show saying that today is there last day at their company they like playing a clip from Arnetta.  In my case it’s not my last day at KTL Solutions but a job change within the company.

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March 16, 2015

Part 5 of 5: Power BI, Sharing the Wealth

We have put a lot of hard work into this blog series with building a patron analysis so now it’s time to share the wealth of our analysis insights with the rest of the company.  Power BI’s web site and mobile approach with the deployment of Office 365 and refreshable data through a Data Management Gateway, is the perfect solution.  The Data Management Gateway has come a long way since the first version and with version 1.2 it now supports many data source types from Power Query connections.

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October 24, 2014