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Core's Data Team is deeply experienced in the technologies and methodologies needed to transform data into actionable insights.

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Data Analytics

How Aggregation Tables Improve Performance for Power BI Reports

This dive into aggregation tables will help you decide when to use them in Power BI to improve your data model and query performance.
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Data Analytics

Power BI Tips for Star Schema and Dimensional Data Modeling

This blog covers the advantages of using dimensional data models in your Power BI datasets + some additional tools that can optimize your dataset performance.
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Data Analytics

Power BI Governance: Refining and Maintaining Your Power BI Strategy

To guide your Power BI strategy, here are monitoring strategies and guidelines on establishing a Center of Excellence to performance-tune your content.
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Data Analytics

Power BI Governance: Data Gateway Management

Still using on-premise data sources? Then a data gateway is required for your Power BI implementations. Here are some guidelines to follow when setting it up.
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Data Analytics

Power BI Governance: Report Design Strategy

Developing a set of best practices in your organization around report design will allow for you and your end users to create consistent and re-usable reports.
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Data Analytics

Power BI Governance: Sharing and Deploying Power BI Content

If you want to design the best way for your organization to share content in Power BI, this blog will detail your options including Apps, Workspaces, and more!
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Data Analytics

Power BI Governance: Delivery Strategy and Licensing

When implementing Power BI, you need to know the different delivery strategies available, which one best fits your organization, and what licensing you need.
Data Protection
Security

6 Practical Data Protection Features in SQL Server (Pros & Cons)

Here's how we use the data protection features within SQL Server to protect confidential data and make it available to only those authorized to see it.
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Cloud Deployment & Optimization

Machine Monitoring IoT Solution with Azure Services and Power BI

We custom-made an IoT framework with Azure components and Power BI to implement a scalable solution to source, stream and show machine performance in real-time.
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Cloud Deployment & Optimization

How to Dynamically Scale an Azure SQL Database

By designing and implementing a dynamic scaling plan for your Azure solution, you can get the resources you need while reducing cost at the same time.