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BI, Analytics, and Reporting

5 free resources to help you learn Power BI

16 FEBRUARY 2021 - 5 MINS READ

Organisations are increasingly leaning on data analytics and visualisation tools to help them navigate the forever changing business landscape. Power BI helps businesses uncover insights from data to understand what happened, why it happened, and plan the...

What is data write-back in Power BI and why do you need it?

26 JANUARY 2021 - 3 MINS READ

As a data visualisation and analytics tool, Power BI allows users to consolidate data from multiple business systems and present it in an easy to...

The Power BI approach to surfacing Analytical Accounting data in Dynamics GP

28 JULY 2020 - 5 MINS READ

The Analytical Accounting (AA) module within Microsoft Dynamics GP enables the setup of dimensions to analyse financial data beyond the general ledger accounts, without having...

Leveraging Power BI for Financial Planning and Analysis

17 JULY 2020 - 2 MINS READ

Excel: the finance team’s best friend. That is until due to rapid growth, increased business complexity, or the pursuit of tighter security and compliance, it...

Power BI Feature Focus: Natural Language Q&A

8 MAY 2020 - 2 MINS READ

What is the Natural language Q&A feature in Power BI?The Natural language Q&A feature in Power BI allows you to type your question in the...

Business Forecasting: How to avoid tripping on the Black Swan

22 OCTOBER 2019 - 5 MINS READ

One might suggest that finding the end of a rainbow is easier than the task of predicting the future. However, with each business planning cycle,...

7 signs Excel is a budget planning liability

3 SEPTEMBER 2019 - 7 MINS READ

In a previous blog, we discussed just why Excel is now a liability to your budget, planning, and management reporting process, including providing an example...

When does Excel become a liability to business planning?

27 AUGUST 2019 - 4 MINS READ

Imagine a successful and growing organisation who have used an Excel model to construct their annual budget plan for many years. However, in the past...

Big vision. Small steps

21 FEBRUARY 2019 - 4 MINS READ

As a client success manager, the best part of my job is witnessing the positive change that our projects make to people’s lives. We spend...

Power BI to the People

30 MAY 2018 - 3 MINS READ

It wasn’t long ago that only the elite could afford great BI solutions. The power of great analytics, visualisation and data discovery was only available...