Management Reporting in Need of an Overhaul?

3 Signs your Company's Management Reporting Needs a Massive Overhaul How much time does your organisation spend each month preparing budget and management reports? How much time does management spend trying to understand these reports? How much money does your organisation spend on reporting solutions? Do any of the following [...]

2017-10-03T14:28:21+08:00Power BI|

Power BI Data Sources for Estimating Market Share

Power BI data sources can be almost any file, database or web service. Here's an innovative way to use this amazing connectivity to estimate your market share using free information sources from the web. Facebook tells me my Market Size If you've ever placed an ad on Facebook, you'll know the incredible range of characteristics [...]

2021-07-27T15:29:40+08:00Data Handling, Power BI|

How to…CSVs to Power BI Dashboard in 10 minutes!

How to...CSVs to Power BI Dashboard in 10 minutes! If you've ever clicked "Export to CSV" then we are kindred spirits. In a previous life as analyst and accountant, I have been an unwilling follower of the export, copy paste, filter, remove top 2 rows, transpose mantra. In recent years a lot of [...]

2017-06-09T10:48:18+08:00Power BI|

Power Query Data Cleansing – solving all sorts of Excel issues

Power Query Data Cleansing - solving all sorts of Excel issues by Wyn Hopkins   Some may see Power Query simply as a brilliant way of connecting to multiple data sources and loading that data into a Microsoft Power BI development environment (Excel Power Pivot or Power BI desktop). Having spent 25 [...]

Introducing Power Pivot – Power Query (Get & Transform) – Video Introduction Part 3

Introducing Power Pivot  In this video I introduce Power Pivot and how you can use it to join multiple tables of data together and display your data in a Fiscal Year format. In part 1 I demonstrated how Power Query can quickly consolidate all of the files in a folder and bring that data [...]

Top 10 reasons why winning CFOs are flocking to Power BI for data analysis

Top 10 reasons why winning CFOs are flocking to Power BI for data analysis “A (data analysis) picture is worth a thousand words” (Frederick R. Barnard – 1921) “Time is Money” (Benjamin Franklin – 1706 to 1790) The above truths are even more relevant in today’s real-time business environment. Those who make the smart decisions [...]

2017-03-08T03:53:53+08:00Power BI|

Power Query (Get & Transform) – Video Introduction Part 2

Power Query (Get & Transform) - Part 2 In part 1 I demonstrated how Power Query can quickly consolidate all of the files in a folder and bring that data into Excel. In this 6 minute video I follow on from that introduction and add an extra transformation step to get the dates I need. Once [...]

Power Query (Get & Transform) – Video Introduction Part 1

Power Query (Get & Transform) Part 1 Power Query is amazing at linking to data sources and cleansing / transforming that data as it's loaded into Excel (or Power BI Desktop). Watch this 4 minute video and see how you can consolidate all of the files from a folder instantly using Power Query. Build the transformation steps [...]

Custom Visuals – Power BI – 2 of the best

One of the great things about Power BI visualisations is the fact that they are open source and clever generous folk are developing fantastic tools for free that can help us all deliver a more enjoyable experience to the end users. Custom Visuals Gallery Two of my current favourites are both by OKVIZ and are [...]

2018-04-05T11:16:36+08:00Power BI|

Power Query Parameters – How to use Named Cells as Flexible Inputs

  Check out our YouTube channel with weekly videos dedicated to Excel, Power Query and Power BI Power Query is the best thing to happen to Excel since Tables were introduced in Excel 2007 **Updated May 2018** When developing Power Query solutions for others to use, or when needing parameters that can be changed [...]

2022-01-21T14:52:41+08:00Power BI, Power Query|

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