As we move into the festive period, now is the time to put your feet up, relax, take stock for the year ahead...or, if you are reading this over Christmas, grab the opportunity to learn more about Power BI 🙂 . In the seventh post in my series concerning Microsoft Exam 70-778, we move away [...]
Welcome to post number 6 in my series concerning Microsoft Exam 70-778. The series aims to provide a revision tool for those who are looking at taking the exam and to also provide an introduction into some of the fundamental concepts around Power BI. As alluded to previously on the blog, Power BI is increasingly [...]
Another week, another Power BI post 🙂 This is the fifth post in my series focusing on Microsoft Exam 70-778, where I aim to provide a detailed overview and description of the skills needed to tackle the exam successfully. Last week's post rounded off the opening theme, Consuming and Transforming Data By Using Power BI [...]
Welcome to the third post in my series on Microsoft Exam 70-778, where I aim to provide a detailed overview and description of the skills needed to tackle the exam successfully. We saw in the previous post how we could use the Power Query Editor to perform a multitude of different transformations against data sources; [...]
Welcome to the second post in my series concerning Microsoft Exam 70-778, where I hope to provide a detailed revision tool for those preparing to take this exam. Last week's post introduced the fundamental notions behind connecting to data sources in Power BI Desktop, and we will lead on from this to look at the [...]
As discussed recently on the blog, I have been on a journey to try and attain the Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate Certification in BI Reporting. I was very fortunate to overcome the final hurdle of this task by passing Exam 70-778: Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Microsoft Power BI the other day. I enjoyed the opportunity [...]
The life of a Dynamics CRM/Dynamics 365 for Customer Engagement (CRM/D365CE) professional is one of continual learning across many different technology areas within the core "stack" of the Business Applications platform. Microsoft has clarified this in no uncertain terms recently via the launch of the Power Platform offering, making it clear that cross-skilling across the [...]
With two major Microsoft events recently taking place back to back over the last fortnight - Microsoft Inspire & the Business Applications Summit - there is, understandably, a plethora of major new announcements that concern those of us who are working in the Business Applications space today. The critical announcement from my perspective is the [...]
Earlier this year, the Business Applications team at Microsoft published a blog post titled Modernizing the way we update Dynamics 365, a significant article that anyone involved with Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (D365CE) should take time to read through carefully. Indeed, as a direct consequence of the announcements contained in this post, you may now be [...]
I was very honoured and excited to be involved with the very first D365UG/CRMUG North West Chapter Meeting earlier this week, hosted at the Grindsmith just off Deansgate in Manchester. This is the first time that a D365UG/CRMUG event has taken place in the North West, and we were absolutely stunned by the level of [...]