What a hit! TDI had the pleasure of joining forces with the savviest SQL Server users at SQLSaturday Nashville. What a thrilling sensation it was to team up with some of the top SQL Server users around during this month’s SQLSaturday event, the largest SQL event in Middle Tennessee! The TDI team was honored to [...]
Create an application instantly with PowerApps! PowerApps is a Microsoft service that makes it easy for anyone to build mobile and web-based business applications. Visual drag-and-drop functions that mimic PowerPoint and Excel allow you to easily create apps that run on a phone, tablet, or in a browser. For beginners, PowerApps provides templates and examples [...]
I’m looking forward to giving back to our Nashville SQL Community by presenting at this year’s SQLSaturday event. This is by far one of the best events in Nashville’s tech community and has been a great event for myself and others to attend every year. I can recall the first time I attended SQLSaturday years [...]
Think Data Insights is a proud sponsor of SQLSaturday Nashville 2018! SQLSaturday is a free training event for Microsoft Data Platform professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server, Business Intelligence and Analytics. This event will be held on January 13th, 2018 at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU). Register here! Don't forget to attend Think [...]
As 2018 is approaching, it’s important to take the time to reflect on this past year and set goals for the future. Without goals, there is a lack of focus and direction. Here are a few tips to make sure you reach your goals and be successful in the new year. Set the right goals [...]
Power BI Report Server has been an over looked feature of the new Power BI Premium subscription model that Microsoft released in June this year. The Power BI Report Server is a new product that allows organizations to house Power BI Reports in an on-premises report server which serves as a “one stop shop” for [...]
Power BI is many things… a cloud and on-premise analytics and reporting service, a rich set of APIs for developing analytics applications, and a powerful desktop application for individual data exploration and analytics solution building. Power BI Desktop allows users to solve the most complex data integration and visualization challenges they face in today’s corporate [...]
Think Data Insights strives to improve the data culture in an organization, with the goal of increasing the speed-to-value of analytics. The average organization today requires IT to develop all the analytics, but the IT group does not often have the business’ subject matter expertise required to provide the value needed. As a result, most [...]
Think Data Insights had the pleasure of serving the community in Franklin, Tennessee on Saturday, November 18th, with One Generation Away. One Generation Away has many partners, including our favorite, the recent winner of the Data Analytics Dashboard Giveaway, Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee. On the 18th, at a local elementary school, we [...]
Data visualization is the way we present data to support data driven decision making. It is the key to self-service business analytics where people in the business can access data and build visuals for specific problems. To be successful in data visualization, it’s important to know your objective, know your audience, highlight key findings, eliminate [...]
