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Hello! Those who attended my webinar Report Usage Power BI Dashboard, and those who registered and didn't make it can use this page to access the following items: View Recordings:13th of September 2021 (Webinar - Atlanta BI Meetup)Download Power BI Financial Freedom Dashboard file (Zip file).Download PowerPoint Presentation file. Want more? If you want more webinars like this one, join our meetup group.If you are interested in a career with...

If you are an owner of a User Group and would like us to present one of our sessions, then have a look at the session description for “Power BI Report Usage Dashboard”. Session Description: What is one of the most important KPI after you deliver Power BI reports/dashboards to users? Without doubts one of it will be the actual usage of reports where we can answer questions like: How...

One of my 2021 goals is to become a Microsoft MVP in Power BI, or at least be nominated in 2021 and try to become one in 2021/2022. I've read blog posts and watched videos, and even written my own blog post on how to become a Microsoft MVP, which is all good for general information gathering, but in this post I want to create a plan for myself to...

I thought I'll document and share a DAX scenario from Ian Y. who contact me on LinkedIn asking for advice. The problem was that DAX Datesytd function was not working as expected with Year End Date argument which is used to change fiscal year beginning/end in the calendar. The argument that Ian provided was "1/10" for October 1st and this worked in Power BI Desktop but didn't work in Power...

We offer Power BI consulting services using our Power BI Flexi Team and in this article we will describe our table naming conventions standards that our team members should adhere to. If you a website visitor (not part of our team) please note that we will use quite a specific way to name tables and feel free to adjust it to your liking. When we work with Power BI solutions...

We offer Power BI consulting services using our Power BI Flexi Team and one of the benefits of the service is that we have Power BI best practices that we adhere on every project and that includes naming conventions standards. The best practices and naming conventions standards that I will describe here is what we use in all our projects, and we expect all our team members to adhere to,...

In May 2021 we officially offer a Power BI consulting global service called Flexi Team. Before 2018 I was contracting, relocating for contracts and expected a baby and it was time where I finally decided that with my wealth of experience in BI with Microsoft BI tools, it's time to make a strategic decision to grow not as a contractor but as a Power BI consulting business. My main motivators...

I got this error today (24th of May 2021) while working on a project for one of my clients, and trying to sign in to Dynamics 365 using organizational account. Something went wrong! The solution for me was to download the latest Power BI update, I think I was already using May 2021 but it seems there was an update to an update. For some reason I only had Repair...

So like me, you are interested in becoming and Microsoft MVP and wonder how exactly to do that? The main criteria to become a Microsoft MVP is to contribute to the community, and over 10 years ago that's exactly what I started doing by creating SQL Server BI Stack (T-SQL, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS) blog, which I later on expanded into an e-learning website, which at some point was being visited...

I regularly check Itjobswatch website for statistics related to IT jobs and Microsoft Power BI (Consulting service we offer) and recently there was a major change in top 5 IT skills where we suddenly got Social Skills as #3 most in demand skills. Let's start with a definition of social skills. ITJobswatch puts in brackets interpersonal, communication which essentially is a soft skill related to how we communicate at work...