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Export to Data Lake Alternatives: Fabric Link Vs. Azure Synapse Link
We previously explored Microsoft's deprecation of the "Export to Data Lake" feature for Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations (F&O), what it means, and your ...
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Your Guide to Power BI Licensing in the Microsoft Fabric Era
Licensing in the Microsoft Fabric world has never been a straightforward path. There are always permutations, alternatives, and perspectives on the best path for ...
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How a Data Focus Feeds the Analytics Harmonization Engine for Medicaid Payer Plans
Data Focus for Medicaid Payer Plans In a previous post, we explored "How Medicaid Payer Plans can hone their data focus," or in other ...
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How Medicaid Payer Plans Can Hone Their Data Focus
Part 1 of a 2-part Medicaid Blog Series Data Focus for Medicaid Payer Plans Managing patients, providers, members, encounters, and other healthcare-related data domains ...
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The Power of AI in Managing Cash Flow
How AI models can help predict cash flow One of the most important success metrics for any company, large or small, is cash flow. ...
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The Deprecation of Export to Data Lake in Dynamics 365: What It Means and Your Next Steps
Introduction The "Export to Data Lake" feature in Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations (F&O), is an important feature that allows customers to copy data ...
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What is Production Level AI?
Production Level AI requires prepared data, as a single source of truth. Production Level AI is defined as AI in production throughout your organization. ...
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Tech Talk Thursday: Automatically Updating Partitions in Power BI Semantic Models
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Transform Your Data Insights: Unleash the Power of OmniAnalytics™ D365 Business Central
Specifically built for Business Central and powered by Microsoft Fabric, OmniAnalytics™ offers a game-changing solution that will transform the way you work with data. ...
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Talk Thursday: Power BI Dataset Refresh Part 2 – Confirming a Dataset Refresh
Welcome to Part Two of this two-part video series on dataset refresh from Power BI within our Synapse Analytics pipeline using Power BI REST ...
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Talk Thursday: Power BI Dataset Refresh Part 1 – Trigger a Dataset from Power BI using REST API
Welcome to another two-part series for Tech Talk Thursday hosted by Ray Marquina, OmniData™'s Principal Solutions Architect. In this series, we will be exploring ...
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Elevate your Business Central Reporting: Modern Data Architecture for Analytics
Business Central helps companies take a major leap in the depth of processes they can automate, as well as the data available for analysis. ...
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Tech Talk Thursday: Build a Synapse Pipeline Part 3: Full and Incremental Refresh / Building a Notebook
Welcome to Part Three of this three-part video series on creating a pipeline to handle both full and incremental refreshes in Azure Synapse presented ...
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Tech Talk Thursday: Build a Synapse Pipeline Part 2: Expanding on Control Tables
Welcome to Part Two of this three-part video series on creating a pipeline to handle both full and incremental refreshes in Azure Synapse presented ...
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Tech Talk Thursday: Build a Synapse Pipeline Part 1: Handle Full and Incremental Refreshes Using Delta Lake Control Tables
What exactly is Delta Lake and how can you use it to build Azure Synapse Pipelines for full and incremental loads? Find out in ...
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Understanding Business Central Reporting Challenges and Overcoming Reporting Limitations in Microsoft Dynamics 365
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (D365 BC) offers substantial benefits to businesses and organizations looking to manage their business more efficiently. However, reporting in ...
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Unlocking the Power of Sharing and Distribution with Power BI and OmniAnalytics™
When adopting a new reporting or analytical solution, organizations devote a lot of time and resources into standing up their library of reports, but ...
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Tech Talk Thursday: Explore the “If” Condition Within Azure Synapse Pipelines
Don't miss this tutorial for beginners just learning about Azure Synapse Pipeline configurations and analytics. This tutorial builds on the concept of using Switch ...
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Tech Talk Thursday: Dynamic Mapping Using a Copy Activity Within Azure Synapse Analytics
If you've ever encountered issues with corrupt file types, or encoded files that aren't supported on the destination end of an Azure Synapse data ...
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Tech Talk Thursday: Configure API Pagination within Azure Synapse Pipeline
API pagination can be an exceptional data display and analytics tool. This is especially true in Azure Synapse pipelines. But using REST APIs can ...
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Power BI Tips & Tricks: Group Values
Are you building back-end fields, over and over, to group existing data points for additional reports in Power BI? Or maybe you're adding a ...
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Tech Talk Thursday: How to Create a Metadata Driven Pipeline using Azure Synapse Analytics
This Tech Tip from OmniData™ Principal Solutions Architect Ray Marquina is perfect for beginners as well as advanced data analytics professionals who want to ...
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Tech Talk Thursday: How to Use Switch Activity Within Azure Synapse Analytics
Using Switch Activity in Azure Synapse Analytics, located in "Activities" under "Iterations and Conditionals," will provide you with the same functionality as using a ...
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Power BI Tips & Tricks: Faster Power Query
Extracting relevant, insightful business information from your critical data sources is significantly streamlined with Power BI using Power Query. But Power Query can be ...
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Tech Talk Thursday: How to Setup Notifications Within Synapse Pipelines With Logic App
Have you ever wished you could have been notified when you had an Azure Synapse Pipeline fail? If so, you don't want to miss ...
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Power BI Tips & Tricks: Field Parameters
Have you ever had information overload, aka TMI (too much information!) when generating graphical reports in Power BI? If so, you're not alone. What ...
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Tech Talk Thursday: How to Leverage Variables within Azure Synapse Analytics
In today's Tech Talk Thursday video, OmniData™'s Ray Marquina, Principal Solutions Architect, shares how to leverage variables within Azure Synapse Analytics. More specifically, he'll ...
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Power BI Tips & Tricks: Themes
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S(killing) it with AI and Earning New Solutions Partner Designation
How do we do it? Because Power BI has always been a major focus, OmniData™ jumped at the chance to secure its new Microsoft ...
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Power BI Tips & Tricks: Pro Formatting
Have you ever looked at your Power BI reports and thought they looked a little bland? Now you can make your Power BI presentation ...
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OmniData™ Helps Customers Tap Into Power BI
How do we do it? In just one workshop, customers walk away with practical skills to build their own Power BI dashboards, while OmniData™ ...
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Power BI Tips & Tricks: Concatenate
Have you ever generated a chart, and the headings were way too long? Learn how to use the concatenate feature to make your charts ...
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Power BI Tips & Tricks: Small Multiples
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Power BI Tips & Tricks: Expandable Sidebar
One of our favorite BI tricks is the expandable sidebar. Instead of having slicers taking up all the space on a page, you can ...
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Data Analytics Bootcamp—How OmniData™ Can Help You To Monetize Your Data Insights
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How To Take Your Data Analytics Approach To The Next Level in 2023
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Power BI Tips & Tricks: Coloring Above Average
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Power BI Tips & Tricks: Conditional Formatting in Tables
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How Will Azure Business Intelligence Change Your Business In 2023?
How can your company benefit from implementing a business intelligence strategy in 2023? Business intelligence solutions are top of mind with executive and leadership ...
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Power BI Tips & Tricks: Auto Align
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Video: How OmniData helped Milwaukee Tool using Azure Synapse
As Milwaukee Tool grew globally and expanded their manufacturing capabilities, so did their needs for data visualization and flows. OmniData™ helped give their business ...
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OmniData™ Video: Dynamics & D365 F&SCM Inventory Aging
The OmniData™ Dynamics and D365 F&SCM inventory aging model provides detailed inventory aging analytics based on a FIFO inventory management method. Find out how ...
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Six Reasons Azure is Winning the Cloud Modernization Market
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BYOD v Export to Data Lake
Extracting Data from D365 F&SCM F&O for Data Warehousing and Analytics Overview When designing and building a typical data warehousing and analytics environment, ...
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1-Minute Tour: Dynamics & D365 F&SCM Inventory Analytics
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Dynamics Analytics Excellence – Deep Dive White Paper
Most organizations face the same four common data problems. OmniData™'s Dynamics Analytics Excellence whitepaper helps solve them. One size fits all reporting Reporting across ...
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Dashboard in a Day Workshops Scheduled
Classes available now OmniData™ joins Microsoft in offering Free Dashboard in a Day Power BI Discovery Sessions Tobias Eld, OmniData™ partner and Azure guru ...
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Free Excel, Power BI, and Azure Training Offered by Microsoft
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Analytics in a Day Workshops
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Data Warehouse Automation Optimizes Govt Response to Covid-19
Part 2 - Data Warehouse Automation is the next logical step for stability and growth http://omnidata.com/about#teamThis article on Covid-19 Data Warehouse Automation was written ...
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Data Analytics in the Covid-19 Trenches
How Washington State’s Pandemic Insights Got a Jump-Start. This article on Covid-19 Data Analytics was written by Douglas Textor with Susan Pessemier. Washington State ...
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OmniData™ Remote Solutions
Maintaining Productivity during COVID-19 The Coronavirus/COVID-19 is now having an impact on every family in the United States. We empathize that you and your family are impacted, ...
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Cashflow Magnifier Quick Tour
Cashflow is the lifeblood of every business, but it's not easy to pull and manipulate accurate, useful data across an organization. How easily can ...
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Best Cloud Provider: Microsoft With Azure Synapse
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Migrate From SQL 2008 Before Support Ends
Migrate from SQL 2008 at 10x the speed and reliability using TimeXtender. Microsoft is ending support for SQL Server 2008 on July 9, 2019. ...
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June 2019 Discovery Hub Release
This week, TimeXtender released a new version of Discovery Hub, I have been playing around with the preview for a last several weeks, so ...
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Export to Data Lake Alternatives: Fabric Link Vs. Azure Synapse Link
We previously explored Microsoft's deprecation of the "Export to Data Lake" feature for Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations (F&O), what it means, and your ...
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Your Guide to Power BI Licensing in the Microsoft Fabric Era
Licensing in the Microsoft Fabric world has never been a straightforward path. There are always permutations, alternatives, and perspectives on the best path for ...
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How a Data Focus Feeds the Analytics Harmonization Engine for Medicaid Payer Plans
Data Focus for Medicaid Payer Plans In a previous post, we explored "How Medicaid Payer Plans can hone their data focus," or in other ...
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How Medicaid Payer Plans Can Hone Their Data Focus
Part 1 of a 2-part Medicaid Blog Series Data Focus for Medicaid Payer Plans Managing patients, providers, members, encounters, and other healthcare-related data domains ...
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The Power of AI in Managing Cash Flow
How AI models can help predict cash flow One of the most important success metrics for any company, large or small, is cash flow. ...
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The Deprecation of Export to Data Lake in Dynamics 365: What It Means and Your Next Steps
Introduction The "Export to Data Lake" feature in Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations (F&O), is an important feature that allows customers to copy data ...
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What is Production Level AI?
Production Level AI requires prepared data, as a single source of truth. Production Level AI is defined as AI in production throughout your organization. ...
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Tech Talk Thursday: Automatically Updating Partitions in Power BI Semantic Models
Often when working with large semantic models, we see fact tables with many partitions. A common pattern is to partition by a date grouping ...
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Transform Your Data Insights: Unleash the Power of OmniAnalytics™ D365 Business Central
Specifically built for Business Central and powered by Microsoft Fabric, OmniAnalytics™ offers a game-changing solution that will transform the way you work with data. ...
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Talk Thursday: Power BI Dataset Refresh Part 2 – Confirming a Dataset Refresh
Welcome to Part Two of this two-part video series on dataset refresh from Power BI within our Synapse Analytics pipeline using Power BI REST ...
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Talk Thursday: Power BI Dataset Refresh Part 1 – Trigger a Dataset from Power BI using REST API
Welcome to another two-part series for Tech Talk Thursday hosted by Ray Marquina, OmniData™'s Principal Solutions Architect. In this series, we will be exploring ...
Read More
Elevate your Business Central Reporting: Modern Data Architecture for Analytics
Business Central helps companies take a major leap in the depth of processes they can automate, as well as the data available for analysis. ...
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Tech Talk Thursday: Build a Synapse Pipeline Part 3: Full and Incremental Refresh / Building a Notebook
Welcome to Part Three of this three-part video series on creating a pipeline to handle both full and incremental refreshes in Azure Synapse presented ...
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Tech Talk Thursday: Build a Synapse Pipeline Part 2: Expanding on Control Tables
Welcome to Part Two of this three-part video series on creating a pipeline to handle both full and incremental refreshes in Azure Synapse presented ...
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Tech Talk Thursday: Build a Synapse Pipeline Part 1: Handle Full and Incremental Refreshes Using Delta Lake Control Tables
What exactly is Delta Lake and how can you use it to build Azure Synapse Pipelines for full and incremental loads? Find out in ...
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Understanding Business Central Reporting Challenges and Overcoming Reporting Limitations in Microsoft Dynamics 365
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (D365 BC) offers substantial benefits to businesses and organizations looking to manage their business more efficiently. However, reporting in ...
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Unlocking the Power of Sharing and Distribution with Power BI and OmniAnalytics™
When adopting a new reporting or analytical solution, organizations devote a lot of time and resources into standing up their library of reports, but ...
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Tech Talk Thursday: Explore the “If” Condition Within Azure Synapse Pipelines
Don't miss this tutorial for beginners just learning about Azure Synapse Pipeline configurations and analytics. This tutorial builds on the concept of using Switch ...
Read More
Tech Talk Thursday: Dynamic Mapping Using a Copy Activity Within Azure Synapse Analytics
If you've ever encountered issues with corrupt file types, or encoded files that aren't supported on the destination end of an Azure Synapse data ...
Read More
Tech Talk Thursday: Configure API Pagination within Azure Synapse Pipeline
API pagination can be an exceptional data display and analytics tool. This is especially true in Azure Synapse pipelines. But using REST APIs can ...
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Power BI Tips & Tricks: Group Values
Are you building back-end fields, over and over, to group existing data points for additional reports in Power BI? Or maybe you're adding a ...
Read More
Tech Talk Thursday: How to Create a Metadata Driven Pipeline using Azure Synapse Analytics
This Tech Tip from OmniData™ Principal Solutions Architect Ray Marquina is perfect for beginners as well as advanced data analytics professionals who want to ...
Read More
Tech Talk Thursday: How to Use Switch Activity Within Azure Synapse Analytics
Using Switch Activity in Azure Synapse Analytics, located in "Activities" under "Iterations and Conditionals," will provide you with the same functionality as using a ...
Read More
Power BI Tips & Tricks: Faster Power Query
Extracting relevant, insightful business information from your critical data sources is significantly streamlined with Power BI using Power Query. But Power Query can be ...
Read More
Tech Talk Thursday: How to Setup Notifications Within Synapse Pipelines With Logic App
Have you ever wished you could have been notified when you had an Azure Synapse Pipeline fail? If so, you don't want to miss ...
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Power BI Tips & Tricks: Field Parameters
Have you ever had information overload, aka TMI (too much information!) when generating graphical reports in Power BI? If so, you're not alone. What ...
Read More
Tech Talk Thursday: How to Leverage Variables within Azure Synapse Analytics
In today's Tech Talk Thursday video, OmniData™'s Ray Marquina, Principal Solutions Architect, shares how to leverage variables within Azure Synapse Analytics. More specifically, he'll ...
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Power BI Tips & Tricks: Themes
Formatting in Power BI got you down? Are you getting bogged down with redoing your charts, graphs, and graphical insights from scratch? Too many ...
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S(killing) it with AI and Earning New Solutions Partner Designation
How do we do it? Because Power BI has always been a major focus, OmniData™ jumped at the chance to secure its new Microsoft ...
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Power BI Tips & Tricks: Pro Formatting
Have you ever looked at your Power BI reports and thought they looked a little bland? Now you can make your Power BI presentation ...
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OmniData™ Helps Customers Tap Into Power BI
How do we do it? In just one workshop, customers walk away with practical skills to build their own Power BI dashboards, while OmniData™ ...
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Power BI Tips & Tricks: Concatenate
Have you ever generated a chart, and the headings were way too long? Learn how to use the concatenate feature to make your charts ...
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Power BI Tips & Tricks: Small Multiples
It's time to become a Power BI Chart Wizard with the latest expert tip of the day on Power BI Tips & Tricks. Let's ...
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Power BI Tips & Tricks: Expandable Sidebar
One of our favorite BI tricks is the expandable sidebar. Instead of having slicers taking up all the space on a page, you can ...
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Data Analytics Bootcamp—How OmniData™ Can Help You To Monetize Your Data Insights
What does data analytics in action look like in your business? At OmniData™, we always ask our clients that question whenever we engage with ...
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How To Take Your Data Analytics Approach To The Next Level in 2023
How are data analytics and business intelligence in Azure related, and can one exist without the other? Information analytics and BI in Azure are ...
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Power BI Tips & Tricks: Coloring Above Average
Power BI can be used to manage all facets of a company, including logistics, human resources, customer relations, sales, market analysis, and so on. ...
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Power BI Tips & Tricks: Conditional Formatting in Tables
If you have taken the plunge into unlocking the data insights Power BI has to offer but are feeling lost when it comes to ...
Read More
How Will Azure Business Intelligence Change Your Business In 2023?
How can your company benefit from implementing a business intelligence strategy in 2023? Business intelligence solutions are top of mind with executive and leadership ...
Read More
Power BI Tips & Tricks: Auto Align
Power BI allows you to gain deeper data insights into your business than you could have ever dreamed - however users all around the ...
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Video: How OmniData helped Milwaukee Tool using Azure Synapse
As Milwaukee Tool grew globally and expanded their manufacturing capabilities, so did their needs for data visualization and flows. OmniData™ helped give their business ...
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OmniData™ Video: Dynamics & D365 F&SCM Inventory Aging
The OmniData™ Dynamics and D365 F&SCM inventory aging model provides detailed inventory aging analytics based on a FIFO inventory management method. Find out how ...
Read More
Six Reasons Azure is Winning the Cloud Modernization Market
Forward thinking Enterprises are modernizing their information technology, while moving to the cloud. Following are five reasons their best option for managing into a ...
Read More
BYOD v Export to Data Lake
Extracting Data from D365 F&SCM F&O for Data Warehousing and Analytics Overview When designing and building a typical data warehousing and analytics environment, ...
Read More
1-Minute Tour: Dynamics & D365 F&SCM Inventory Analytics
Take a 1 minute tour and learn about 6 easy-to-understand dashboard reports that help you better manage your inventory. We'll peek at the incredible ...
Read More
Dynamics Analytics Excellence – Deep Dive White Paper
Most organizations face the same four common data problems. OmniData™'s Dynamics Analytics Excellence whitepaper helps solve them. One size fits all reporting Reporting across ...
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Dashboard in a Day Workshops Scheduled
Classes available now OmniData™ joins Microsoft in offering Free Dashboard in a Day Power BI Discovery Sessions Tobias Eld, OmniData™ partner and Azure guru ...
Read More
Free Excel, Power BI, and Azure Training Offered by Microsoft
OmniData™ Teaches One Day Trainings Learn all aspects of the Azure Analytics offerings Microsoft has structured free training in the Azure Analytics Stack into ...
Read More
Analytics in a Day Workshops
OmniData™ Hosts Analytics in a Day Workshop Sessions Tobias Eld, OmniData™ partner and Azure guru guides ambitious clients through setting a best practices foundation ...
Read More
Data Warehouse Automation Optimizes Govt Response to Covid-19
Part 2 - Data Warehouse Automation is the next logical step for stability and growth http://omnidata.com/about#teamThis article on Covid-19 Data Warehouse Automation was written ...
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Data Analytics in the Covid-19 Trenches
How Washington State’s Pandemic Insights Got a Jump-Start. This article on Covid-19 Data Analytics was written by Douglas Textor with Susan Pessemier. Washington State ...
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OmniData™ Remote Solutions
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Cashflow Magnifier Quick Tour
Cashflow is the lifeblood of every business, but it's not easy to pull and manipulate accurate, useful data across an organization. How easily can ...
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Best Cloud Provider: Microsoft With Azure Synapse
Ignite Conference Announcements Advance Microsoft Azure on Many Dimensions Microsoft Azure emerges as best cloud provider Microsoft Azure is absolutely now the best cloud ...
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Migrate From SQL 2008 Before Support Ends
Migrate from SQL 2008 at 10x the speed and reliability using TimeXtender. Microsoft is ending support for SQL Server 2008 on July 9, 2019. ...
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June 2019 Discovery Hub Release
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