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 […]
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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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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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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Microsoft\’s Power BI is a powerful tool for leveraging data to help your business succeed. This is not news to those already familiar with Power BI and the importance of business intelligence and automation. However, this tool\’s full potential is only unleashed when you get sufficient adoption. The collaborative nature of Power BI makes it
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We recently had a PowerApps request to default the value of a “Person or Group” active directory enabled form field to the Display Name of the logged in user while allowing the logged in user to change the contents of the “Person or Group” field to effectively make a request on behalf of another member
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Cloud-hosted business intelligence solutions provide your organization with many benefits. Microsoft Power BI and Tableau are popular choices, but figuring out which one meets your budget requirements can be challenging. While Power BI offers a free version, this cost comparison looks at the expenses you can expect to encounter with the paid version of Power
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