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Master Your Power BI Environment with Tabular Models

Jet Global

Power BI provides users with some very nice dashboarding and reporting capabilities. Unfortunately, it also introduces a mountain of complexity into the reporting process. It updates a dedicated database against which you can perform reporting and analytics. Fast-forward to 2020. The first is an OLAP model.

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Navigating Data Entities, BYOD, and Data Lakes in Microsoft Dynamics

Jet Global

Data warehouses gained momentum back in the early 1990s as companies dealing with growing volumes of data were seeking ways to make analytics faster and more accessible. Online analytical processing (OLAP), which enabled users to quickly and easily view data along different dimensions, was coming of age.

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Reduce IT Dependence for SAP S/4HANA Reporting

Jet Global

As the first in-memory database for SAP, HANA was revolutionary, bringing together the best characteristics of both traditional online transaction processing and online analytical processing.