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Updated August 21, 2025

The business intelligence landscape has a fundamental interoperability problem. Organizations using Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Microstrategy, and Cognos often struggle with semantic silos that block the adoption of AI-driven analytics, natural language query (NLQ), and BI investments. Today, we're launching…

Updated August 19, 2025

Power BI and Snowflake are a powerhouse combo for modern business intelligence. But performance issues can creep in—especially with DirectQuery mode. If your dashboards are slow to load or your queries are hitting limits, you're not alone. This guide breaks…

Updated June 19, 2025

In a multi-tool analytics world, one of the most persistent challenges facing data-driven organizations is metric sprawl. When business teams use different BI tools each with their own logic and metrics, the result is conflicting numbers, duplicated effort, and a…

Updated June 5, 2025

Organizations today rely on both Power BI and Tableau to unlock insights from their Snowflake data. But without a centralized approach, things get messy—definitions drift, performance suffers, and costs climb. Despite significant investments in cloud data platforms, data teams still…

Updated May 27, 2025

If your Power BI dashboards feel more like a waiting game than a real-time tool, you're not alone. Many teams struggle with sluggish performance when connecting Power BI to Snowflake. Dashboards that should load in seconds often take minutes. The…

Updated April 3, 2025

The Rising Cost Challenge for Power BI Customers Organizations across industries rely on Power BI to drive business intelligence and inform strategic decisions. However, as data volumes increase, so do the associated costs. Businesses often face growing expenses related to…

Updated February 11, 2025

In my last post, I demonstrated the many advantages of using AtScale Models to power your Business Intelligence workloads, including human-friendly SML syntax, Git integration, multi-tool support, zero-extract Live Connections, and proven BI Modeling capabilities. In this post, I'll demonstrate…

Updated October 21, 2024

Tabular models and the Data Analysis Expression (DAX) language offer Microsoft Power BI users enormous analytic and visualization capabilities. As powerful as these tools are, when using them, it can feel like one is reinventing the wheel to solve basic…

Updated May 23, 2024

This blog is part of a series on Microsoft Fabric from Greg Deckler, Vice President at a global IT services firm who leads a practice specializing in Microsoft technologies such as Dynamics 365, Power BI, and Azure. Greg is a…

Updated April 30, 2024

This blog is part of a series on Microsoft Fabric from Greg Deckler, Vice President at a global IT services firm who leads a practice specializing in Microsoft technologies such as Dynamics 365, Power BI, and Azure. Greg is a…

Updated April 2, 2024

This blog is part of a series on Microsoft Fabric from Greg Deckler, Vice President at a global IT services firm who leads a practice specializing in Microsoft technologies such as Dynamics 365, Power BI, and Azure. Greg is a…

Updated March 22, 2024

As I hinted in my last blog post, “Your Questions Answered: TPC-DS Benchmark for Power BI/Direct Lake”, and due to popular customer demand, I’m happy to announce that we just published our Power BI/Direct Lake benchmark comparison for another data…