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A modern data stack for startups

Nowadays, easy access to data is table-stakes for high-performing companies. Easy access doesn't come for free, though: it requires investment and a careful selection of tools. For young companies like us, the question is how much? And when do you make that investment? Having grown to ten people, several without engineering backgrounds but with strong data needs, we decided 2022 was going to be that time.

The Right Power BI License for your Business

Microsoft BI is a powerful game-changer for business intelligence solutions that are widely used for data analysis and reporting. It is a unified self-service that delivers a great depth of data insights by combining interactive data visualizations with intuitive user experience. Whether you are a business enthusiast or an owner who likes to keep a tab on all things in a single dashboard, Power BI allows you to visualize and analyze your data dynamics like never.

Self Service BI with Power BI

Self-service business intelligence is an advanced approach to data analytics enabling users to process and explore data sets even without much data analytics expertise like data mining and statistical analysis models. Self-service BI with Power BI allow business users to prepare, sort, analyze and visualize data without involving any technical support.

Business Intelligence for Hospitals: How to Leverage?

Business Intelligence is essentially an umbrella term that includes infrastructure, best practices, and applications needed to analyze data and support decisions. In the age where data holds unlimited transformative potentials, hospitals and healthcare institutions are diving headfirst to harness the power of data through business intelligence (BI) services.

What is Power BI for Retail Industry?

Power BI (Business Intelligence) is a business analytics platform/service provided by Microsoft. This service aims to provide interactive visualizations and business intelligence, enabling the end-user to create individualized reports and dashboards independently. Especially for retail businesses, Power BI helps them meet the dynamic customer demands in advance with actionable insights. Microsoft Power BI service is based on cloud service, which also offers a desktop-based interface.

15 of the Best Data Analytics Tools of 2021

The importance of effective data analytics within an organization is widely accepted by business leaders at this point. With use cases for data analysis spanning every department—from IT management, financial planning, marketing analytics, and so on—the right data analytics tools can have a significant impact on a company’s profitability and growth.

Azure Data Factory - Key to migrate data in Azure Cloud

Data sources ingest data in different sizes and shapes across on-premises and in the cloud, including product data, historical customer behaviour data, and user data. Enterprise could store these data in data storage services like Azure Blob store, an on-premises SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, and many more. This blog will highlight how users can define pipelines to migrate the unstructured data from different data stores to structured data using the Azure ETL tool, Azure Data Factory.

Exploring New Integration Opportunities with Azure Data Lake and Power BI

From digital transformation to infrastructure optimization, business analytics and data visualization allow IT stakeholders to make sense of complex situations. You can’t improve what you can’t measure, right? More and more, we see IT organizations combining different sources of information to uncover unique insight, allowing them to detect areas of improvement, find new opportunities, optimize processes and gain that competitive edge.

Redefining Business Intelligence for Real-time Businesses

We are in the midst of an unprecedented convergence of events accelerating digital transformation. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the unexpected shift to remote workforces, and the pressure to expedite cloud adoption have companies reprioritizing their business models and operations, not only to survive and scale but also as a precaution to unforeseen future disruptions. Now, more than ever, amidst this transformation, enterprises can leverage their data and real-time analytics to gain a competitive advantage and gain market share.