Topic: Power Platform
Learn More About Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365 CRM: Understanding Analytics for the Common Data Service
“If you build it, they will come” is a famous line from the movie Field of Dreams. Does the statement hold true for the Microsoft Power Platform? If you build a great system, will your employees and co-workers use it? Fortunately, you have a great tool like Analytics for the Common Data Service to help…
Learn More About Four Ways to Use Bookmarks in Microsoft Power BI
When reading a book, we often bookmark sections or pages that we want to return to later. In Microsoft Power BI, you can bookmark specific views of pages much like in a book. Bookmarks in Power BI allow users to capture the current view of a report page, including the state of slicers and visuals.…
Learn More About Unconventional Uses for Analytics and Power BI: Text Analytics and Sentiment Analysis
One amazing thing about the 21st century is the fact that there is trackable data in everything we do. However, most businesses don’t know what to do with their data or how it can be manipulated to gain insights on areas outside the normal sales and financial reports. There are many ways you can use analytics…
Learn More About How to Configure Scheduled Refresh in Microsoft Power BI
With Microsoft Power BI, you get a platform that integrates with any data source you need, enabling you to create and share intuitive and visually appealing reports and dashboards that can revolutionize the way your organization uses data. What’s more, Power BI keeps your reports up-to-date by managing the connections from your data sources to…
Learn More About New to Microsoft Power BI? From Implementation to Training, Here’s All You Need to Know to Get Started
Microsoft Power BI is the leader in the analytics and Business Intelligence marketspace. Many times, businesses want to begin leveraging business intelligence tools like Power BI but aren’t sure were to start. When evaluating a new Power BI implementation the first place to start is with the data. How is Data Created? First, review how…
Learn More About The Integration Story with Microsoft’s Power Platform: Common Data Services for Apps, Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations and Talent
The new version of Common Data Service, which is referred to as CDS for Apps (CDS 2.0), is extremely powerful — and when integrated with Microsoft Flow, PowerApps, PowerBI, and Dynamics 365 the results are unparalelled. In this post, we will walk through the steps to create, integrate, and test a complete Dynamics 365 integration…
Learn More About How to Transform Your CRM Data: Connecting Power BI & Dynamics 365
Your company has finally made the jump to the cloud. Great, but now how do you use the data in your Microsoft Dynamics 365 cloud environment? To report on all of the data entered into CRM by sales and marketing, you used to just hook up to the SQL database that is on the servers, import…
Learn More About Are you currently using bookmarks in your PowerBI reports? You should be.
The Microsoft Power BI bookmark feature was released with the summer update of Power BI desktop and allows users to highlight certain visuals and filters of a report to tell a story. One way to think about Power BI bookmarks is as if they were the next slide of a PowerPoint presentation. You can have…
Learn More About Today, Business Intelligence Extends to Everyone in the Organization
In today’s work environment, everyone in the organization can benefit from business intelligence. With a proper Power BI implementation, your entire business, from the traveling salesperson to the CEO, can see and interact with the data they need. We typically group Power BI users into three groups — the Technical User, the Self-Service User, and…