Mergers and acquisitions affect several key factors such as business, legal, human resources, intellectual property, IT, finance, and of course, business intelligence. When two different companies sign up for an M&A, it becomes challenging to confront the complexities in integrating dozens or hundreds of applications and IT systems.  Your new mixture of Business Intelligence systems should not be a headache. A BI Fabric helps in easing out the whole process, streamlining the transition and integration of your BI systems from both companies. This blog will see how adopting a BI fabric ..read more

We would like to introduce you to the new version of BI Hub – V2.7.1. In this release, we have implemented new features and fixed few issues. Here is an abstract of all new features and bug fixes in our new BI Hub V.2.7.1! What’s New? With this new version, you will get the following features: Enabling Service Principal Authentication for Power BI. User Specific Sync – Enabled Auto Sync option. Display MS-SharePoint Document Version History in BI Hub. Enabling Service Principal Authentication Power BI agent uses a security identity called Power BI service principal. This service principal al ..read more

For the past few decades, almost every enterprise has relied on one or more BI platforms to build their analytics content.  The turnaround time to build a report is very quick and a lot of people in an organization build reports frequently and generate a lot of content in their BI Platform. Today after few years of BI Platform usage, one significant challenge that most enterprises face is pretty much the same: “My BI platform is a total mess. How do I clean it up?” BI Hub is a one-stop-shop portal to access all your analytics content in one place. BI Hub’s capability is not only limited t ..read more

As businesses grow, it becomes very difficult to manage a large number of reports that users create. Microsoft Power BI has a cutting edge in the BI market space with its compelling visualization capabilities. Power BI is now a go-to tool for businesses who want more reporting power and analytical muscle. Henceforth it has also increased the number of reports being created in an organization. In this blog, you will explore how BI Hub can help organizations dealing with thousands of Power BI reports. You will also know how BI Hub can help deal with multiple BI reports spread across Power BI, On ..read more

We would like to introduce you to the new version of BI Hub – V2.7.0. In this release, we have implemented new features and worked on performance optimizations. Here is an abstract of all new features and bug fixes in our new BI Hub V.2.7.0! What’s New? With this new version, you will get the following features: User Specific Sync Report Implementation. Enabled parameter for Session Timeout value instead of a hardcoded value. BI Hub Mobile App – Ready to use in iPhone & iPad. Implemented pagination for the User Manager page in Admin View. Optimized the performance of the sync jobs and the ..read more

In today’s world, many companies are shifting to a self-service model. Business users are not just consuming reports but also trying to gain more insights about report properties like report source, report SME, whether it is certified, last updated, and documentations attached with it. They want to see all these details so that they can ensure that they are looking at the right report. The only way to consolidate these details for a report is through “Metadata”. Report Metadata is defined as information about one or more aspects of the report; it is used to collect information which can make t ..read more

You have multiple BI systems to meet the individual needs of multiple departments – that’s great, or is it? In today’s world, Business Intelligence (BI) is an integral part of each and every company’s day-to-day activities and with rapid technological advancement, there have been a lot of BI offerings available in the market. Most of the companies end up owning several BI systems because different departments or teams use different BI tools. That means that the number of reports that are in use is huge, the data is scattered across multiple systems and many times it’s duplicated because differ ..read more

The BI world is undergoing a turbo transition from legacy BI Platforms to modern BI platforms. The underlying reason for this transition is that the modern BI tools are more flexible and agile compared to the legacy platforms. Another huge transition that we could see is the change in the personas. Traditional BI tools were predominantly used by analysts and IT staff providing sophisticated features, which were not accessible by anyone outside this tech-savvy community. Whereas modern BI tools are meticulously breaking the barrier and aiding the BI adoption much easier and effortless as it has ..read more

The BI & Analytics world is ever-evolving with new BI tools entering the market. When an organization senses that a single BI tool is not meeting their expectations, they seek a hybrid model of having multiple BI tools that best fit their needs. Studies say that most organizations leverage an average of 3+ BI tools because there isn’t one tool that does everything. With thousands of reports scattered across the business, it becomes difficult for a BI user to quickly locate a report or a dashboard. That is where the game-changer concept of a “BI portal“ comes to play. A BI Portal helps acce ..read more

We are very excited to share with you the new version of BI Hub – V2.6.0. In this release, we have focused on bringing a better user experience and more improvements on the security front. Here is a tiny sampling of all new features and bug fixes in our new BI Hub V.2.6.0! What’s New? With this new version, you will get the following features: Email Notifications whenever there is a failure in the Sync process Passwords are not shown for the agent’s instance configurations page Ability to set a native user password strength validator User Preferences options to set the landing page New Main M ..read more