Altis UK Data & Analytics Newsletter: October 2023
Hello!
As we march towards the end of the year deadlines, please consider Altis’ frameworks, consulting, and training services to assist with your Data & Analytics needs. I welcome a conversation to discuss your needs.
I'm going to cover seven things in this edition of the Altis UK Data & Analytics newsletter:
I invite you to share our newsletter with your colleagues and network.
Please feel free to contact me directly if you’d like to learn more about how we can help you with your Data & Analytics needs.
1. Altis UK Training update: 20% off public training until Christmas!
“Very informative and interactive. Well paced. Best virtual learning course I have ever done!”
Take advantage of our Autumn 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. We’ve got a range of?public training dates?scheduled until the end of the calendar year. 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:?Data Visualisation Best Practices
It is one thing to know how to build a report or dashboard in Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, etc., but it’s another to know which chart types to use under different circumstances, how to make it look good and most importantly, how to make it easy for people to consume the information.
Check out the Data Visualisation Best Practices course page for more information including a short video describing what the course covers and who will benefit from it.
Power BI Data Modelling: Nov 23
Power BI Data Wrangling: Nov 28
Power BI Data Visualisation: Oct 31, Dec 5
Power BI DAX Foundations: Nov 7, Dec 12
Data Visualisation Best Practices: Nov 14, Dec 19
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2. 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. It 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.
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3. Blog spotlight: So, you want to learn how to build a Power BI Dashboard in a day?
Altis is a Microsoft Power Platform in a Day Delivery Partner, and as such, we deliver Microsoft’s Power BI Dashboard in a Day (DIAD) course. Attendees become equipped with a broad range of outcomes after completion of the DIAD course. Namely, learning how to use Power BI to access and transform data, modelling and enriching data, visualising and communicating data stories, and utilising the different methods of sharing data in Power BI with others.
Altis provides the DIAD course in three different formats. The first is a free event run on behalf of Microsoft, which garners a lot of interest, and as such, we’ve set limits to ensure fairness. Only two people from one organisation can attend (in total) and students are not able to attend the free event more than once. The second format that Altis provides is similar, but a paid version, that has no limits on the amount of people from one organisation and allows individuals to sign up as well. The third option is a ‘private’ option, where organisations can book the course to only include their staff members in the group. The latter two options are capped to 15 attendees to maximise personal attention. Read Anna’s blog post to learn more.
4. Power BI October 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.
5.?Accelerate your journey to best practice with the Altis Power BI Framework
We’ve helped many organisations on their Power BI journey, and we’ve distilled our experience and learnings into the Altis Power BI Framework. The Altis Power BI Framework is a collection of best practice templates, guidelines, standards, and processes that will accelerate your adoption and success with Power BI. The Altis Power BI Framework has been successfully implemented for our clients in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. The Altis Power BI Framework is comprised of four main components, which can be purchased separately or as a bundle:
And of course, we also offer consulting services to ensure the Altis Power BI Framework is tailored to your needs and to assist your team to deliver their first best practice solutions.?I welcome the opportunity to meet with you to demonstrate the Altis Power BI Framework and discuss how it can help accelerate your organisation’s journey to best practice. You can also register for our FREE webinars via the links in the webinars section below.
6. Upcoming FREE webinars
Register for our FREE 1-hour webinars and please feel free to forward to your colleagues and network.
Track Power BI Usage across your estate with Altis Power BI Insights
An Introduction to Data Visualisation Best Practices
7.?Follow our monthly newsletter on LinkedIn
Please feel free to subscribe to Altis UK Data & Analytics News on LinkedIn. I’ll be publishing our monthly newsletter there (we’ll still be emailing it too) along with other newsworthy items throughout the month.
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.