A business intelligence (BI) service facilitates the use of structured data in order to enable data-driven decision-making across the organization. It is an end-to-end service that handles the extraction, organization, and maintenance of data.
So if you’re a small business with limited IT resources or someone who’s interested in exploring this service model using Power BI, this episode’s for you. There’s more to Power BI than building a consulting business.
Erik Svensen, a Microsoft Business Intelligence specialist, and Microsoft MVP data platform. He is also the founder of CatMan Solution, a Power BI consulting company based in Northern Europe, and a Microsoft Gold Partner for Data Analytics. The company offers business analytics consulting, design, and implementation of tailor-made data analytics solutions to mid-to-large CPG organizations throughout Northern Europe and the world. The organization’s mission is to enable companies to adopt a data-driven culture through the use of Power BI, thereby helping them perform better.
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***** Video Details *****
00:00 Introduction
03:56 The beginning of CatMan Solution
06:19 Erik’s first-hand experience on Power BI Beta and his customer’s reactions
07:48 CatMan Solution: Business Intelligence as a Service Solution Provider
12:36 How the business idea grew into what it is today.
17:58 Erik’s thoughts on recent updates in Power BI and features he considers transformative.
18:57 The impact of Microsoft Enterprise Solution on organizations according to Erik
22:23 Challenges associated with data architecture as a result of recent developments in tools and features related to Power BI
23:42 Data Integrations using Power BI
27:41 Customer’s Power BI implementation challenges and how to overcome them
37:31 Power BI Danish user group activities
42:11 Power BI features that would be nice to have
50:57 Connect with Erik Svensen
***** Related Links *****
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eriksvensen/?originalSubdomain=dk
Blog: https://eriksvensen.wordpress.com/
CatMan Solutiion: https://www.catmansolution.com/catman/
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