Altis UK Data & Analytics Newsletter: November 2023
Hello!
We’re excited to launch a new version of the Altis Power BI Insights solution enabling you to understand your licensing costs in addition to tracking the usage of Power BI objects across your entire estate. Please contact me if you’d like to schedule a call to see the solution in action and discuss how it might be suitable for your needs.
I'm going to cover the following in this edition of the Altis UK Data & Analytics newsletter:
I invite you to share our newsletter with your colleagues and network and as always, please feel free to get in touch with me directly if you’d like to learn more about how we can help you with your Data & Analytics needs.
1. Track Power BI usage & licence costs across your entire estate with Altis Power BI Insights
Organisations invest significant resources in developing Power BI reporting solutions and they expect to be able to understand the usage of these solutions and the licensing costs. The out-of-the-box Microsoft Power BI “Report Usage Metrics” provides limited usage reporting and does not flag Power BI objects that have not been used. It also only stores 90 days of report usage metrics data. This makes it very laborious to see the entirety of your Power BI estate and severely limits historical usage reporting. There is also no way to see the Power BI licensing costs and identify opportunities for cost savings.
The Altis Power BI Insights solution allows you to see your entire estate at a glance and track the full history of usage across your organisation to better support your adoption strategy.
The Altis Power BI Insights solution also allows you to see the Power BI licensing costs and which users are not using the solution, therefore providing you cost saving opportunities.
The Altis Power BI Insights solution is part of the broader Altis Power BI Framework which can further accelerate your journey to best practice. Please contact me if you’d like to schedule a call to see the solution in action and discuss how it might be suitable for your needs.
2. Altis UK Training update: 20% off 2023 public training courses!
“Very informative and interactive. Well paced. Best virtual learning course I have ever done!”
Take advantage of our discount training offer with 20% off all of our Altis UK public training courses for the remainder of the 2023 calendar year. Use the?ALTISUK20?discount code.
Check out our?public training dates?with courses scheduled until June 2024. We can also deliver any of our courses?privately?for groups of up to 15 people at a time. Please contact me if you’d like to learn more.
Course spotlight: Dimensional Modelling Foundations
Attendees of this one-day Dimensional Modelling Foundations course will learn the tried and tested Kimball techniques for designing robust dimensional models to support enterprise decision making. Students will gain a solid foundation in Dimensional Modelling that they can apply directly to their workplace projects.
Check out the Dimensional?Modelling Foundations course page for more information including a short video describing what the course covers and who will benefit from it.
Upcoming public training dates
Power BI Dashboard in a Day (DIAD): Jan 9, Feb 12, Mar 18, Apr 22, May 28
Power BI Data Modelling: Jan 11, Feb 15, Apr 25, May 30
Power BI Data Wrangling: Nov 28, Jan 16, Feb 20, Mar 26, Apr 30, Jun 4
Power BI Data Visualisation: Dec 5, Jan 23, Feb 27, Apr 2, May 7, Jun 11
Power BI DAX Foundations: Dec 12, Jan 30, Mar 5, Apr 9, May 14, Jun 18
Data Visualisation Best Practices: Dec 19, Feb 6, Mar 12, Apr 16, May 21, Jun 25
Dimensional Modelling Foundations: Dec 18, Mar 11, May 20
Public Training Discount Offers
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3. Blog spotlight: Reports of the Star Schema’s Death are Greatly Exaggerated – Part 2
In this two-part blog series, Sam Riggs sets out to answer a simple question: with all the technological change that has taken place in the Data & Analytics landscape over the past ten years, is Dimensional Modelling still relevant?
Following on from Part 1,?where Sam examined why Dimensional Modelling was created and how?it’s persisted for so long,?Part 2 seeks to understand how the Star Schema, Dimensional Modelling, and The Kimball Method do (or don’t) differ, and to discuss?the?alternative approaches.
Is Dimensional Modelling still relevant in today's modern data landscape??Read Sam's conclusion to find out!
4. NEW! Power BI Dashboard in a Day events for Women, by Women
We're excited to announce that commencing in November, Altis Consulting UK will be delivering Power BI Dashboard in a Day events for Women, led by Women. These women-only events are an opportunity for women to come together for a free, hands-on, 1-day training event led by experienced, women trainers.
Anna Smith from Altis UK will lead these events and she is "looking forward to being a part of this great initiative to empower women in tech."
Our first Power BI Dashboard in a Day for Women, led by Women event is in November is already full, but stay tuned for more here*.
We'll continue to deliver the regular (not exclusive to women) free Power BI Dashboard in a Day events on behalf of Microsoft as well. The free events are very popular and we can’t accommodate everyone. You might want to consider paid public or private Power BI Dashboard in a Day training options if you’re not able to secure a free spot.
*search by keyword: "Dashboard in a Day" to find the Dashboard in a Day events for Women, led by Women.
5. Power BI November 2023 Feature Summary
Ian Stuart is an Altis UK Power BI and Data Visualisation specialist and here he shares his thoughts on the latest Power BI features. Be sure to connect with Ian and subscribe to his LinkedIn newsletter, as he will be continuing to share these updates each month.
6.?Qlik ANZ Health & Public Sector Digital Transformation Awards – WINNER
We are excited to announce that the work we completed with the?Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care has won the?2023 Patient-centred App Innovation Award.
This award celebrates the continued and dedicated efforts in designing, developing and deploying critical business intelligence solutions to solve complex health matters across the public sector and healthcare domains. Congratulations to the team members for their hard work on this project! We are proud to have contributed to helping clinicians and the wider health network better perform their duties.
7. Upcoming FREE webinars
Register for our FREE 1-hour webinars and please feel free to forward to your colleagues and network.
5th Dec 2023: Create functionally rich & consistent reports with the Altis Power BI Template
11th Jan 2024: An Introduction to Data Visualisation & Storytelling Best Practices
1st Feb 2024: Leveraging a Framework to improve quality & manage your Power BI Estate
29th Feb 2024: How to track Power BI usage & licence costs across your entire estate
19th Mar 2024: Create functionally rich & consistent reports using a Power BI Template
Our mission at Altis is to guide our clients to become successful data-driven organisations. We are Data & Analytics experts, it’s all we’ve done since we started in 1998. We don’t sell any software, which means we listen carefully to what you need and design solutions that deliver tangible business benefits for you rather than recommending a solution for our own financial gain. We deliver value for our customers in a number of ways, whether it’s helping you create a Data Roadmap to guide your future endeavours, building Data Platforms and Data Visualisation solutions to support organisation-wide decision making, delivering toolset and best practices training, or providing Managed Services for your existing Data & Analytics solutions.
Please feel free to get in touch, as I'd love to catch up with you to learn about what you're looking to achieve in the Data & Analytics space, share how we've helped clients in similar situations, and see if we might be able to help guide you to become a successful data-driven organisation. We enjoy spreading the love, so please feel free to share this newsletter with your networks, or better still, I welcome an introduction.
Thanks for reading!
Chris.