Power BI
Fully interactive, stunning data visualizations for your business
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Pros
- Rich ecosystem
- Active product group
- Out-of-the-box connectors
- Familiar to Excel professionals
- ETL processing with Dataflows
- Custom visualization marketplace
- Low cost Power BI Pro
- Automatically ingest data into Azure Data Lake Store
- Option to embedded reports via Power BI Embedded
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Cons
- Premium SKUs can be expensive
- DevOps support is lacking (coming soon)
- DAX language can be tricky to master
Read our blog posts about Power BI
Star Schemas are fundamental to unleashing value from data in Microsoft Fabric
The practice of dimensional modelling to generate Star Schemas was brought to mainstream adoption by Ralph Kimble in his seminal work The Data Warehouse Toolkit in 1996. This blog explains why his principles remain as relevant today as they were 30 years ago.
Data Engineering an End-to-End Solution with Microsoft Fabric @ Oxford Microsoft Data Platform Group
Ed Freeman is going to do a live end to end demo of building a data engineering solution on Microsoft Fabric.
Barry Smart presenting Modern DataOps in the Azure Cloud at Big Data LDN
Barry Smart is going to talk about applying software engineering practices rigour to data engineering processes in the Azure Cloud.