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Power BI (PBI) WordPress MYSQL Analytics

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PBI for WordPress – we offer consultancy services to integrate Microsoft Power BI to WordPress / MYSQL databases.

This can be used to provide analytics on all items in your WordPress database, to extract to a report, Microsoft Excel, CSV or Power BI Dashboard.

Examples might be data captured via Gravity Forms, WPForms, Contact Form 7,Jetpack Form, Caldera Forms, Ninja Forms that is contained in your WordPress website database.

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WordPress Analytics

We offer a range of WordPress Analytics solutions and consultancy, from analysing web visitors and site traffic to more detailed analysis of the contents in the WordPress MYSQL database.

 

Power BI Azure Synapse Analytics

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Power BI is a well known and widely used Business Intelligence software tool.

It is widely used often because many users have Power BI because they’re Windows users and Power BI comes with Windows. It’s probably fair to say that users of the Power BI platform often don’t always fully assess the BI tools market since they mostly have what they need in Power BI

Despite Microsoft’s ability to update the Power BI platform on an almost constant basis, its capabilities aren’t always viewed as the most innovative on the market.

This could be about to change with Microsofts introduction of Power BI Azure Synapse Analytics.

Power BI Azure Synapse Analytics aims to integrate data warehousing and data analytics in a single BI cloud service that provides the functionality and tooling from both Microsoft Power BI and Azure Machine Learning.

Azure Synapse Analytics

ASA can be summarised as the next step in the evolution of Azure SQL Data Warehouse as the diagram below illustrates

Power BI Azure Synapse Analytics

What is Azure Synapse Analytics?

Azure Synapse is a limitless analytics service from Microsoft that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics. It gives you the freedom to query data on

Qlikview Version 13 Release Date

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Qlikview Version 13

Qlikview Version 13 – Business across the globe are evolving at a breathtaking pace and the need to make decisions instantly has also grown multi-fold.

Decision making at levels needs to be a data driven approach backed up with visualations, diagrams, graphics and more traditional management information sources and reports.

To quickly assimilate a huge amount of data, there is growing demand for Business Intelligence tools that can help the Top Executives gain relevant and conscise

Best Business Intelligence Software 2021

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Best Business Intelligence Software 2021 Vendors and Comparisons – the BI Business Intelligence Software market is a crowded and confusing marketplace.

It can be difficult to navigate the vendor offerings, functionality and pricing and compare these to guide the purchase decision making process.

Best Business Intelligence Software 2021

The Best Business Intelligence Software 2021 based on User and Analyst feedback is :

  1. Power BI
  2. MicroStrategy
  3. Spotfire
  4. SAS Visual Analytics.
  5. Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE)
  6. Sisense.
  7. Qlikview
  8. Tableau
  9. Yellowfin BI
  10. Cognos

Microsoft Power BI is the rising challenger to some of the more established vendors.

Power BI accounts for almost 60% of new Business Intelligence Software purchased.

Power BI DAX

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Power BI DAX – DAX is a grouping of functions, operators, and constants that can be used in a formula and expression or simply to calculate and return one or more values. To summarise PBI DAX helps you create new insights from data already in your model.

The DAX toolset is also embedded in other Microsoft products such as Power Pivot and SSAS Tabular.

 

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DAX can be classed as a functional language, which in practice means the executed code set can be contained inside a function.

What is Power BI DAX?

In simple words, DAX is used for data manipulation – to create new data and insights

There are two main calculations you can create using PBI DAX:

  • calculated columns
  • calculated measures

Important DAX Functions in Power BI

  • LOOKUP( )
  • FILTER( ) & CALCULATE( )
  • Nested IF Condition
  • Splitting a String Based on Delimiters
  • Fetching a Particular Letter from a Word
  • Conditional Formatting
  • The ALL Function
  • RELATED(<column>) – This DAX function is designed to help you return a related value from another table in addition to the one you are working on

Useful DAX Functions

The most useful PBI DAX function is probably the CALCULATE function given this is one of the most important and multipurpose functions in DAX Power BI.

The DAX calculate function can simplify complex, multiple calculations easily.

The DAX CALCULATE function assesses an expression in a context that is changed by specific filters. Below is a basic example of the relevant DAX expressions:

CALCULATE(<expression>, <filter1>,<filter2>