What is Version Control and why does it matter? Version Control, a term very familiar to Software and Web Development teams, is the management of changes to documents, computer programs, large web sites, and other collections of information. As self-service Business Intelligence tools like Power BI adoption rates are on the rise, version control is
What is Digital Transformation? Simply put, digital transformation is when processes, culture, business models or business outputs are digitized. Think big: Amazon online vs Sears paper catalog. Think daily: Email vs Xeroxed memos. Think engagement: Order and track Domino’s on your phone vs call and wait for pizza. Think COVID: Video conferences vs conference rooms.
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Not sure what to do if your Get Items request returns a NULL value? SharePoint lists are excellent tools for lightweight data entry storage. However, a SharePoint list is not a database. Key constraints and referential integrity cannot be enforced. When using Power Automate to join values in two different lists using the Get Items
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Welcome to part 2 of our introduction to data modeling basics in Power BI (you can find part 1 here). Let’s start this post by introducing a few more common data modeling terms. We frequently refer to business entities like product or manufacturer as dimension tables, and tables like sales as fact tables. Think of
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In today’s digitally dependent business landscape, SMBs are constantly looking for ways to maximize their IT efficiency while also controlling costs. For some businesses, break/fix IT seems to be the answer. Their model of only coming to repair issues when they arise instead of offering round-the-clock management sounds like it could save you a lot
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One of the toughest hurdles for new Power BI users is data modeling. If you’ve never been exposed to data modeling concepts before, terms like entities, facts, dimensions, keys, and relationships may be puzzling. This two-part article is a simplified introduction to data modeling in Power BI. What is data modeling? For our purposes, we’ll
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With the current pandemic affecting businesses worldwide, it has become crucial for companies to adapt their practices for remote working. Despite this, just 7% of Americans were well-equipped to work from home before the COVID-19 pandemic began. Now, to ensure the safety of employees, families and the general public, companies must work to develop strong
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Disaster Recovery is one of many IT facets that might seem increasingly more complicated while you’re remote. It can easily be forgotten in this ever-changing pandemic time but can be one of the most detrimental to neglect. What could go wrong? Outages are inevitable. A 2019 LogicMonitor study reported that 96% of organizations have experienced at least one outage in the
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One of the most frequent questions asked in IronEdge Group\’s training courses is how we learned Microsoft Power BI. Our trainers all took different learning paths, but we assembled a list of beginner resources to share. We hope this series can be helpful for folks hoping to learn Power BI skills. Future posts will focus
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Updated January 2026. Originally published April 2020. Time intelligence in Power BI (business intelligence) can be a beast sometimes, and this use case is no different. When it comes to slicing and dicing your data using dates and other time intelligence measures, there are many approaches, but this method for slicing data with time intelligence
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