Important stories about complex industries such as oil & gas can be difficult to tell. Thankfully, they often are also very rich in data – data which can be used to interactively illustrate the story for readers, making it more engaging and meaningful. Come hear how data visualization and industries expert Dallas Salazar, collaborating with Power BI MVP Greg Deckler, recently used data and Power BI to draw readers into a complicated story and leave them wanting more. Join us on Wednesday, May 31 at 10 a.m. PT to learn more.
» Read more In April we debuted the new Video Gallery, your central hub for video tips and tricks from the Power BI team, Partners, and users like you. This month we’ve expanded the Gallery to include webinars, and to celebrate the community is starting a new Webinar Wednesday program. To kick things off, today’s presentation features Microsoft webinar star Charles Sterling, talking about How to Design Visually Stunning Power BI Reports. In this marketing-focused session, Charles will be walking through design best practices that will help your reports and dashboards be more attractive and consistent while saving you time. The webinar starts today at 10 a.m. PT, and we hope to see you there!
» Read more Delight customers by carrying the right products on every shelf! To stay competitive, retail and consumer packaged goods companies need to apply complex business intelligence (BI) to their SKU portfolio. For some, this kind of advanced sales analysis is out of reach. Fortunately, new tools are making new sales goals possible. Join this webinar on March 2, 2017 to learn more!
» Read more A common challenge that businesses face today is creating something that improves on the value of traditional analytics while utilizing new technologies at our disposal. Turning data into insights and action is the hallmark of a good business intelligence solution. With the increasingly rich and populated Microsoft Cloud Technology landscape, new opportunities are presented in ways that organizations can leverage them. Attend the webinar, “Accelerate your Retail Business with Analytics” by Hitachi Solutions on February 2 to learn more!
» Read more We’ve got four new webinars from Jan 10th – Jan17th for your viewing pleasure! The topics include: * Walking through the development process for creating custom visuals for Power BI * Microsoft Flow administration, SharePoint Integration and best practices * PowerApps Custom APIs, Gateways and Data sources * How to build production ready event application in less than a week with PowerApps
» Read more Good decisions start with good data, but are you spending more time prepping and blending data than analyzing and visualizing it to make insightful decisions? Attend our virtual lab and follow along as we walk you through step-by-step instructions on how to build your very own workflow in Alteryx and create interactive reports and dashboards in Microsoft Power BI.
» Read more Ask the experts at Microsoft and find out if the visual design of your work is helping to project your data story, or just creating confusion. Attend the live webinar on November 17, 2016 to see how our Power BI pros turn dashboards and reports from standard to shiny, sharing insights more efficiently and making a bigger impact on your audience. If you want to learn more about dashboard and report design, with or without a submission of your own, register now for the Dashboard Makeover webinar!
» Read more Power BI is a fantastic data visualization, transformation, and discovery product, but it’s not designed for “Big Data”-scale datasets. Meanwhile, Azure HDInsight is an impressive cloud-based Hadoop and Spark distribution that works at scale, but it isn’t designed to be friendly for business users the way Power BI is. In this webinar, Andrew Brust will show how you can leverage the scale of HDInsight and the ease-of use of Power BI with Datameer, part of the Azure HDInsight Application Platform. If you’re a Power BI fan, and you want to do Big Data analytics without learning the ins and outs of Hadoop and Spark, then don’t miss this webinar.
» Read more Join this webinar to learn more about the new functionality from Pyramid Analytics that allows organizations to publish Power BI Desktop content directly into BI Office’s on-premises solution.
» Read more With more digital work being done than ever before, the sheer volume of data that marketing departments collect is growing each and every day. As a result of this influx of data, marketers now have more opportunity to drive better outcomes for their organizations. So, how can you, as an analyst, combat these challenges and get more value from your marketing data at the point of impact? Join this webinar on Thursday, October 27 and find out!
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