To design an effective dashboard for a CEO, one must embody the CEO's mindset, valuing simplicity, beauty, tribal language, and data-driven insights. CEOs seek a concise visual representation of their business's health, wanting answers in under 20 seconds to fundamental questions like "Are we on track?" A successful dashboard integrates the company's branding and aligns with its culture, prioritizing significant issues and providing actionable data insights. Essentially, it should allow the CEO to swiftly grasp the financial status of the business and discern necessary actions for both immediate and future improvement.

At FreshBI, we're transforming the consulting industry. We understand your frustrations with traditional consulting - the lack of transparency, delays, and misaligned results. That's why we're different. We put you first, offering agile, tailored solutions that you'll see in as little as three weeks. We believe in continuous innovation and improvement, releasing new products weekly, all inspired by your valuable feedback. But our relationship goes beyond just providing solutions - we're committed to educating your team, helping you build your in-house Center of Excellence. And our risk-free payment model? It's our way of making sure you're comfortable and confident in our partnership. We're more than just a consulting firm, we're your partners in transformation.

Transitioning from Tableau to Microsoft's Power Platform is a game changer for businesses, as it offers an entire ecosystem of powerful, user-friendly tools. The Power Platform includes PowerBI, PowerApps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents, designed to be accessible to everyone with its low-code approach. By migrating data infrastructure to PowerBI, building custom apps with PowerApps, automating workflows with Power Automate, and creating chatbots using Power Virtual Agents, businesses can transform their operations, leading to cost savings, enhanced capabilities, and increased productivity. The Power Platform enables businesses to drive digital transformation and embrace data-driven insights, custom apps, automated tasks, and AI-powered chatbots, revolutionizing everyday business operations.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly advancing and reshaping our interactions with technology and data. OpenAI's GPT-4 and similar AI models have the potential to bring about significant transformations in business processes, ushering in a new era of digital communication. The focus is on exploring practical applications of AI and its potential to create a meaningful impact in businesses. Imagine having the ability to converse with your company's data as if it were a team member, effortlessly obtaining information about sales trends and operational efficiencies without the need for complex queries or manual data analysis. Learn more about how Azure Cognitive Search can work for you.

As a Power BI developer, I cherish any tips or tricks that can save me time and headaches. While these may be small, the time savings can add up over time. Here are a few of my favorites:

​As the cost of health care continues to rise, hospitals are seeking solutions. According to Deloitte, the most progressive hospitals are choosing to fundamentally transform their business models to not only reduce costs, but also to better engage consumers, enhance experience, compete with new entrants, and leverage technology. Whether hospitals are looking to become specialty care operators, virtual hubs as a part of larger systems and networks, or providers of virtual care, the ability to monitor, predict, and improve operational performance is paramount.

In a world of increasing opportunities to obtain and visualize data, it’s important to understand why business intelligence (BI) projects can fail in certain situations – especially when organizations have invested a great deal into resources.

According to Deloitte’s 2023 Construction Industry Outlook, preparation is key for the year ahead. As supply chain issues, material cost escalation, and labour shortages continue to challenge all aspects of the construction industry, companies must differentiate themselves to capture growth in an increasingly volatile and competitive market. But how does one prepare?

The North American restoration industry is a multi-billion dollar a year business. Increases in natural disasters, an aging population, and growing awareness of indoor air quality are among the many factors contributing to the projected industry growth rates over the years to come. And, as the demand for restoration services continues to grow, so does the competition. Restoration companies that are able to adapt to the changing landscape, and scale their business accordingly, are positioned for tremendous success.

SELECTCOLUMNS is a simple function, but it opens the door for us to visualize and take slow steps to solutions that could get messy.

I hope this example and walk through will help your efforts in the future as you grow in your Power BI skills.

One of the biggest challenges of a modern CEO is gaining a clear, data-driven understanding of their business.

Speed up your PowerBI game with short cuts in PowerBI

Functions like PATH seem niche, but they can have more applications than meets the eye. I had fun exploring Directed Acyclic Graphs in Power BI, and I hope this exploration opened your eyes to some of the possibilities hidden in these obscure functions…

Many businesses fail to recognize a vital concept: Adoption. No, we’re not talking about adopting a new family pet, we’re referring to software and product adoption— specifically of PowerBI.

Many businesses fail to recognize a vital concept: Adoption. No, we’re not talking about adopting a new family pet, we’re referring to software and product adoption— specifically of PowerBI.

Use high quality images dynamically in Power BI.

Distributions help us answer questions like: “On an average day, Gollum catches 4 fish. What is the probability they will catch 5 or less fish?”…

A Business Workflow is visual representation of steps through a business activity used to support and validate your Business Intelligence Objectives.

Many businesses fail to recognize a vital concept: Adoption. No, we’re not talking about adopting a new family pet, we’re referring to software and product adoption— specifically of PowerBI.

Because of security requirements, Quick Books has discontinued use of their online connector for several browsers including Internet Explorer. The problem with the Power BI connector is that Power BI uses Internet Explorer to authenticate its webservices.