Automating your Power BI dataset refresh can save time and ensure your reports always stay up to date. In this post, we’ll walk through how to trigger a Power BI report refresh directly from Azure Data Factory (ADF) using an App Registration in Azure Entra ID.
While working with Microsoft Fabric, a question came to mind: why use a Data Warehouse if the Lakehouse already provides a SQL endpoint? At first glance, it may seem redundant. However, when you look closer, the two serve very different purposes, and understanding these differences is key to knowing when to use each.
When it comes to data visualization and business intelligence (BI), Power BI and Tableau are two of the most popular platforms in the world. Both turn raw data into insights, but they differ in cost, ecosystem fit, and flexibility.
Data becomes valuable when it’s turned into insights that drive action. In Microsoft Fabric, this is where Power BI shines. By connecting directly to Lakehouses and Warehouses in Fabric, you can build interactive dashboards and reports, then publish and share them securely across your organization.
If you’ve used Power BI for any amount of time, you know that DAX (Data Analysis Expressions) is both powerful and, at times, puzzling. While it unlocks deep analytical capabilities, it can also slow down your reports if not used wisely.
In a world full of dashboards, reports, and visualizations, simply showing data is not enough. If you want your audience to understand, remember, and act on the insights, you need to go beyond the graph. You need to tell a story. Welcome to the world of storytelling with data, where raw numbers are transformed into compelling, clear, and meaningful narratives that spark decisions.
In today’s data-driven world, dashboards are everywhere; in executive meetings, marketing reviews, sales stand-ups, and operations war rooms. Yet despite their prevalence, most dashboards fail to deliver real value. They’re cluttered, confusing, or just ignored. A high-impact dashboard isn’t just a collection of charts. It’s a powerful decision-making tool. When designed well, it answers questions before they’re asked and guides teams to take confident, timely action.
In today’s data-driven world, integrating marketing and sales data from platforms like HubSpot into a centralized storage system such as Azure Data Lake is critical for advanced analytics and reporting. Azure Data Factory (ADF) makes it simple to automate this process without writing any code. In this guide, we'll walk through the exact steps needed to pull data from HubSpot and store it in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 in JSON format.
The best BI tool for creating reports and dashboards will depend on your specific needs and requirements. It is important to evaluate each tool carefully to determine which one will best meet your needs.
13. What are content packs? Content packs are the container of Dashboard, reports and dataset which can be used by many users. The primary feature of content pack is that if you created a report and put it in a content pack other users can see your report and make to copy of the report and make changes to their own copy of the report while your report is safe and unaltered.
Data models should be filtered and normalized. This is particularly important if datasets are sourced from high data volume repositories such as enterprise data warehouses.
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