Category: Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, BI Industry, BI Projects, Business Analytics, Microsoft BI Platform

How Lakehouse Architecture is Revolutionizing Business Intelligence

Paul Turley

The Lakehouse is the evolution of the earlier cloud data platform in many pieces that came with “some assembly required”. All of the components are modern, mature and capable but complicated and require specialized skills. Imagine that the new version is easier to assemble with instructions that are only a few pages with stick figures, and it comes with an Allen wrench.

We’re seeing consulting customers putting Lakehouse and BI solutions on-line in just a few weeks. Then they iterate to scale-up their modern data warehouse/BI platform as they train their Center of Excellence champions and Data Governance organizations as they progress.

Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, BI Industry, Business Analytics, Dimensional Modeling, Microsoft BI Platform, Power BI, Power Query, Self-service BI, SQL Server, Tabular Models

Getting Data Into Shape for Reporting with Power BI

Paul Turley

Even for small, informal BI projects, shaping the data into a dimensional model alleviates complexity, speeds up slow calculations and reduces the data model storage size. I conclude this post by reviewing seven data architectures and the data shaping methods with different degrees of scale.

Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Microsoft BI Platform, Paginated Reports, PASS, Power BI, SSRS Design

Learn Databricks, ADF & Paginated Reports at the PASS Community Summit

Paul Turley

Seven days and counting… For the past eighteen years, thousands of data tech professionals would travel to the PASS Summit…

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