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Michael Boisvert Michael Boisvert

Power BI Custom Connector for Xero Accounting

This custom connector allows you to integrate your Xero data with ANY other dataset. No more warehousing, no more refresh latency and no more canned reporting. You integrate with your data. All of your data.

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Craig Juta Craig Juta

Power BI Template App Example

Wouldn’t it be nice to pick your entire Power BI Solution off the shelf - one crafted for your specific business needs and your specific data structure.

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Craig Juta Craig Juta

DAX Quick Tip: Specify Multi Condition Ranks

Every once and a while, an existing DAX function won't meet exact specifications; when this happens you've got to think out side the box. In this case we want to use RANKX avoiding ties…

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Chris Bradford Chris Bradford

Aggregations: Unlocking Large Scale Analytics

Aggregations in Power BI is possibly the biggest leap in scalability the world has seen so far: for me this was a big mystery at first. How does this work? Why is this such a powerful feature? My hope today is to demystify aggregations for you…

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Chris Bradford Chris Bradford

Snowflake in Conjunction With Tabular Models:

Snowflake is a leading data warehouse (DWH) tool and the chances are high that you will encounter a Snowflake DWH in the near future. Additionally, Power BI is an industry leader in data modeling and visualization, it owes much of its power to its Tabular Model built with DAX and Power Query...

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Michael Boisvert Michael Boisvert

Zendesk and Xero Harmonized In PowerBI: The Model

We needed a slick way to overcome these challenges….

  • how do I know that my consultants are contributing equally towards our minimum float amount?

  • How do I know I’m using my teams efficiently?

  • Which contracts are experiencing churn?

  • What contracts are taking too many resources?

  • How do I know that my Actual Billings match work completed?

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Craig Juta Craig Juta

Unlocking DAX Measures in Calculated Columns

DAX Measures are fundamentally different from calculated columns. They allow the user to aggregate and manipulate data in ways that calculated columns can not. What if there was a way to get the attribute like functionality of a calculated column, with the flexibility of a measure?…

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Chris Bradford Chris Bradford

Zendesk and Xero Harmonized In PowerBI

Growing business often run into similar problems on the quest for greatness. Most of these problems are encountered while pursuing the following:

  • The quest for profitability on projects and engagements with customers.

  • Centralized intelligence about the performance of projects and consultants. 

  • Analytics on the quality and speed of service to customers.

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Chris Bradford Chris Bradford

5 Tips and Tricks Using Power BI Bookmarks

The possibilities and utility that bookmarks add to reports really is impressive. Though this feature is not brand new, it remains an extremely relevant tool and therefore is worth the time required to educate ourselves on the many uses.

Real life examples are excellent for relaying meaning. Therefore, I’m going to show one of my own reports and five unique ways I used bookmarks to enhance the user experience…

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Chris Bradford Chris Bradford

Construction Console

With unpaid work, unfavorable payment terms, profitability measurement, project delays and technology adoption all major challenges stacking up against construction companies, this dashboard is an adoption of a technology that provides executives with real-time analytics in these key areas…

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Chris Bradford Chris Bradford

Projects Should be Focused on Adoption

Project timelines are a key component to taking on any BI solution venture. But in our experience, many time lines miss the mark. So what is it that we have found makes an effective timeline?…

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