10th April 2024
The business landscape is becoming more data-driven and extracting valuable insights from disparate sources is crucial for informed decision-making. However, the initial stage of data preparation can often be a complex and time-consuming process. Here's where Power BI Dataflows come in, offering a powerful solution to streamline data preparation and empower businesses to unlock the [...]
4th April 2024
Leveraging the Power of Data: Using Power BI to Track Project Progress and KPIs
In today's data-driven business landscape, effective project management hinges on clear visibility and actionable insights. Microsoft's Power BI stands out as a powerful business intelligence (BI) tool, empowering organizations to transform raw data into strategic knowledge. However, project managers often face challenges in tracking progress and key performance indicators (KPIs). In this blog, we explore [...]
5th February 2024
Power BI for HR Analytics: Unlocking Employee Insights
In the modern workplace, data-driven decision-making is becoming increasingly essential, and one area where this is particularly evident is in Human Resources (HR) analytics. HR analytics involves collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data related to various HR processes, such as recruitment, training, and development. Having powerful tools like Power BI, HR professionals can gain valuable insights [...]
29th January 2024
Power BI for E-commerce: Analyzing Sales and Customer Behavior
In today's digital age, e-commerce has become a vital component of many businesses' revenue streams. As the e-commerce industry continues to grow, data analysis has become increasingly important for businesses to make informed decisions and drive growth. This is where Power BI, a powerful business intelligence tool developed by Microsoft, comes into play. Power BI [...]
23rd October 2023
Unlock Data-Driven Insights with Microsoft Power BI
In today’s rapidly changing business environment, data-driven decision-making has become a critical success factor for organisations across all industries. Companies must be able to analyse and act upon large volumes of data quickly and accurately in order to make informed decisions, remain competitive, and drive growth. However, many organisations face challenges in efficiently extracting insights […]
10th August 2023
Power BI integration overview
With Power BI, you are able to connect several data sources together simultaneously and design a data model for your business analysis. The data sources can be systems such as other business intelligence software, corporate tools, project management platforms, and any number of your business' external systems; documents, images, files, emails, videos, etc. This includes [...]
4th August 2023
Power BI security best practices
Ensuring a secure platform on which to store sensitive information and work collaboratively on is a business' top priority. For businesses using Power BI, we've pulled together a non-exhaustive list of security steps to keep your data safe. Implement Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) The first step is the easiest. By enabling Multi-Factor Authentication, users must use [...]
10th May 2022
Power BI April Feature Summary
Over the past two months, Microsoft 365 has made leaps and strides in improving usability, flexibility, and security within all it's apps. As the workforce continues to adjust to new hybrid working expectations and BYOD culture, Microsoft has progressed in parallel. From easier account switching to new updates for Microsoft Teams and 365 users, 2022 [...]
25th March 2022
Influential Software supports the NRC Ukrainian outreach with the latest Power BI technology.
A week or so ago, we were contacted regarding the urgent need to deliver a technical solution to help the Norwegian Refugee Council to be able to best direct aid to Ukrainian refugees in the form of vital supplies, money, or housing. Working alongside Cloud-first organisation Zing, industry-leading Twilio software was used to create WhatsApp [...]
4th March 2022
Power BI February Updates
February was a big month for Microsoft. Not only did the countdown to the licence price increase cause a hike in demand - but some of their top products were updated with a range of new features. Microsoft typically updates its core apps monthly, continually improving the customer and partner experience. From the return of [...]