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Power BI Performance Tuning (3 of 3)
Performance
Power BI
Fabric
Optimizing report calculation performance In Part 1 and Part 2, we established the foundation for performance tuning and tackled semantic model refresh optimization. Now we turn to the...
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Power BI Performance Tuning (2 of 3)
Performance
Power BI
Fabric
Optimizing Data Refresh In Part 1, we established the foundation for any successful tuning engagement by understanding the solution's background and assembling our toolkit. With that...
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Power BI Performance Tuning (1 of 3)
Performance
Power BI
Fabric
The Art of the Start A key report is slow. Users are complaining, refresh cycles are timing out, and the business is starting to lose trust in the data. It’s a familiar story, and the...
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Skip the Calculator: Real-World MS Fabric Capacity Testing
Scalability Testing
Fabric
Microsoft
As organizations scale their Power BI deployments, the rising costs of per-user licensing can quickly become a significant budget concern. With Microsoft's recent price increase of $4 per...
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Deconstructing a Behemoth: A Technical Blueprint for Migrating Legacy BI to Microsoft Fabric
Fabric
Microsoft
Microstrategy
Every long-standing technology platform eventually reaches a crossroads, where the very scale that signifies its success also presents challenges for the future. This was the scenario...
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Taming Your KPIs: A Guide to Trusted Metrics with Fabric's Metric Sets
Power BI
Fabric
Microsoft
Taming Your KPIs: A Guide to Trusted Metrics with Fabric's Metric Sets It's a familiar problem in any data-driven organization: the same key performance indicator (KPI), like "year-to-date...
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Beyond Copy-Paste: Build Scalable Data Ingestion Pipelines in MS Fabric
Fabric
Microsoft
For many data projects, the initial requirement is simple: copy a few tables from a source system into your new analytics platform. The natural first step is to build a few dedicated data...
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Axis Group Recognized as a Microsoft Fabric Featured Partner
BI Consolidation
Fabric
Microsoft
Axis Group Recognized as a Microsoft Fabric Featured Partner June 5, 2025 2:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time ROSWELL, Ga. — Axis Group, a leader in data and analytics solutions for nearly 30...
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Our FabCon 2025 Key Takeaways: Essential Updates for Enterprise Analytics Leaders
Announcements
Fabric
Microsoft
Our FabCon 2025 Key Takeaways: Essential Updates for Enterprise Analytics Leaders We were thrilled to exhibit at Microsoft FabCon 2025 in Las Vegas last month! With over 6,000 attendees,...
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Axis Group Named in 2025 Gartner® Research on Analytics and Business Intelligence Tool Migration
BI Migration
BI Consolidation
Axis Group Named in 2025 Gartner® Research on Analytics and Business Intelligence Tool Migration January 30, 2025 10:00 AM Eastern Standard Time ROSWELL, Ga.—Axis Group, a leader in data...
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Bridging the BI Maturity Gap: Strategic Insights from our Time with IIA
Business Intelligence
Data Maturity Model
data culture
Last week, Axis Group joined forces with the International Institute for Analytics (IIA) to explore one of the most pressing topics facing enterprise analytics leaders today: How low...
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The BI Migration Time Machine: Breaking Free from Yesterday's Analytics
Business Intelligence
BI Migration
Power BI
Your BI platform is a time machine. The question is: Is it sending you backwards or catapulting you into the future? Many organizations recognize the need to modernize their BI...
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Vortex™ by Axis Group Revolutionizes the Approach to Microsoft Power BI/Fabric Platform Migrations
BI Migration
BI Consolidation
Vortex automates up to 70% of Power BI/Fabric migrations, making risky, time-consuming, and expensive manual migrations a thing of the past July 25, 2024 10:37 AM Eastern Daylight Time...
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Time's Up! Mastering the Art of Calendar Tables in Power Query
BI Software
Why include a calendar table in your data model? Organizing and analyzing data by time periods, such as weeks, months, or years is a common business analysis requirement. But this task...
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Creating Scorecards in Power BI: A Headache-Free Guide
BI Software
Power BI is an excellent tool for data analysis and visualization, allowing users to create interactive reports and dashboards, but sometimes you want present your data in a way that...
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Power BI: Me Oh My Field Parameter Pie!
BI Software
Did you know that you can add your own custom columns to Field Parameter to create custom, interactive visuals and report pages? For example, you can design a report so users can select a...
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Sponsorship within Markets
DataVis & Design
Knowledge is power and knowing how your business is performing and how it compares in the external marketplace can provide the power of competitive advantage. Sponsorship is a growing...
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How does your Analytics Team prioritize user requests?
Enterprise Strategy
In organizations everywhere, analytics teams are engaged around burgeoning backlogs of user requests. They are inundated with demands for enhancements, new dashboards and reports, better...
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The Rise of Enterprise Data Literacy
DataLit & Adoption
Data Literacy is top of mind across industries, businesses and governments because data is the source of innovation, growth, opportunity, and success. While enterprises of all sizes have...
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Driving Data Democracy
DataLit & Adoption
Enterprise Strategy
Urgent Need for Increased "Awareness" of Data Literacy Problem Having a Data Literate organization, country, and world will not happen overnight. The success of Data Literacy is dependent...
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Why the Right Data & Analytics Operating Model Is a Competitive Necessity
Enterprise Strategy
Businesses know that data capabilities can be used to gain competitive advantage. The more meaningful data and appropriate analytics you have, the more you know about your customers, your...
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8 New ThoughtSpot Features Announced at Beyond 2022
BI Software
At Beyond 2022, ThoughtSpot unveiled an exciting roadmap. They discussed features like custom SQL, improved visuals, and a bring-your-own-chart capability that may enable customers to...
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Baby Steps to *Really* Understand Link Tables in Qlik and Tableau
BI Software
My experience both learning and teaching about link tables is that it is hard to explain why they are what they are. You often end up resorting to: "Just follow this formula to build the...
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Six Tips on Scaling Analytics and AI
Enterprise Strategy
AI/ML
Axis Group partners with the Darla Moore School of Business to bring together industry experts and academics along with data and analytics practitioners as part of the semi-annual Analytics...
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Enabling Decision Intelligence with Digital Workers
Enterprise Strategy
Introduction Decision Intelligence (DI) is the collective insight of Artificial Intelligence (AI) regarding data-driven analytics across a spectrum of information, including, but not...
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Data Without Analytics Is A Liability
Data Analytics
Whether you think of data as the oil or the water or the lifeblood of business, it's clear that data fuels insights, which drive the actions that create business results. At the end of the...
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Five Takeaways from DataOps Summit 2021
Enterprise Strategy
The StreamSets DataOps Summit brought together data engineers, enterprise architects, and data and analytics leaders from all over to discuss all things DataOps. (If you are unfamiliar with...
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Axis Group and Celonis Partner to Improve Business Processes and Accelerate Digital Transformations
Axis Newsroom
Enterprise Strategy
Axis Group is proud to announce a new partnership with Celonis. As a Celonis Advisory partner, Axis Group can deliver Celonis’ Best-in-Class process mining, machine learning (ML), and...
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What Is DataOps?
Enterprise Strategy
Digital transformations are forcing businesses to scale and restructure their data and analytics practices to support strategic initiatives tied to driving innovation and responding to...
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Axis Group Celebrates 25 Years in Business
Axis Newsroom
SANDY SPRINGS, GA and BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ, AUGUST 14, 2021 – Axis Group®, The Enablement Company®, a leading data and analytics consulting firm, and a staple in both the North Jersey and...
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Axis Group Uses Data for Good in Social Responsibility Hackathon
Axis Newsroom
Overview Recently, Axis Group team members participated in Data for Hope 2021: Affordable Housing in Atlanta, run by ATLytiCS, a non-profit organization based in Atlanta, that uses...
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Axis Group and Blue Prism Announce Exciting New Partnership
Axis Newsroom
Axis Group announced today that it is now a Blue Prism Advisory partner, offering enterprise clients strategic insights and direction regarding Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotic...
Blog

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Data Literacy But Were Afraid to Ask
DataLit & Adoption
According to Gartner (2020), by 2023 data literacy will become an explicit and necessary driver of business value, demonstrated by its formal inclusion in over 80% of data and analytics...
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June Think Tank BI to AI & CI Takeaways
Enterprise Strategy
AI/ML
From Data and Analytics Experts and Academics Recently, Axis Group and Darla Moore School of Business brought together industry experts, academics, and data and analytics practitioners for...
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Breaking Silos and Driving BI Adoption: Where Analytics Meet Business
DataLit & Adoption
Business intelligence (BI) platform licenses during the past twenty years have been held tight or were limited to a specific pool of users in IT. These licenses were often not shared with...
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What to Expect When You Expect Bad Data: An Insider's Look at Improving Data Quality
Data Analytics
Data quality is always a potential issue lurking around in unfamiliar datasets or hiding in data that has been summarized. To combat these issues, knowing what they are and how to detect...
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Drive Executive Engagement Using Data Stories
DataLit & Adoption
Stories connect people with new ideas and help them understand content on an emotional level. Find out how to use data storytelling to improve engagement, ensure understanding, and expand...
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The Data Wars: Why Every Company Must Be a Data Company to Survive
Enterprise Strategy
Everyone knows data is the lifeblood of innovation; it’s fueling digital transformations and it’s propelling day-to-day business. It has been said time and time again that data is an asset....
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“Just Get It Done!”: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Building Dashboards Part 2/2: Making Sense of Dashboards
BI Software
A great dashboard embodies all the same strengths as a great business intelligence platform, growing and adapting with your business, and that foundation requires some planning; like any...
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“Just Get It Done!”: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Building Dashboards Part 1/2: The Importance of the Platform
BI Software
A dashboard is often what we envision when we think of business intelligence, and with good reason: What better way to look at information than in a centralized, easy-to-read hub? The idea...
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Optimizing Re-use for Data Quality to Scale Data Pipelines
Data Management
As more data enters an organization’s ecosystem for transformation and is shared with more and more organizations both within and external to the business, data quality processes and...
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ThoughtSpot – Designing for Adoption
DataLit & Adoption
BI Software
ThoughtSpot is a revolutionary analytics platform that empowers business users to quickly and easily use search to ask questions of their data in a centralized and scalable way. However, if...
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6 Tips for a High Performing & Search-Friendly ThoughtSpot Data Model
BI Software
Data Management
ThoughtSpot is a fast and flexible data analytics tool that enables everyone in an organization to ask questions of their data through the power of search and automated insights....
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Designing User-Centric Data Applications, Pt. 1: The Research Phase
DataVis & Design
A data-driven organization is only as successful as the ability of its employees to understand and act on the data. That’s why we’d argue that designing successful data applications...
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Need help tracking supply utilization and costs?
Industry Analytics
In a large business, overutilization of supplies and expenses can amount quickly if you are not careful. One of the most difficult things for a business is to be able to determine exactly...
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Target Plots in Qlik Sense
DataVis & Design
Recently, Manasvi Lalwani showed us what a Target Plot is and how it might be useful. I decided to put it into practice in Qlik Sense and see what I could discover about the energy...
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Envisioning Data in New Ways: 3 New Charts You’ve Never Seen Before
DataVis & Design
In a world where bar charts and pie charts run rampant, it’s quite a thrilling thing to create a new and unusual way to visualize data. (It makes me feel a bit like an explorer who’s...
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Data is Beautiful
DataVis & Design
Capturing the attention of your audience can be difficult and keeping it can be even harder. Grasp the attention of your audience using stunning visualizations like the Iris Chart featured...
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That which we call a Target plot
DataVis & Design
Why am I writing about Target Plots anyway? A few weeks ago I attended a meet-up organized by the group Data Visualization NY, called “Visualizing Data in the Life Sciences”. The first...
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Have a Growing Business?
DataVis & Design
A successful business is a growing business. Growth means more employees, more office space, and more company assets. Along with this growth in headcount comes new logistical challenges....
Blog

Improve your Business with Sentiment Analysis
AI/ML
This blog contains the secret to double your revenue in a very short time. Okay, maybe not double but Sentiment Analysis can certainly help you increase your revenue by helping you...
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Sales Summary Dashboard
DataVis & Design
How are your salespeople performing? At any given time, answering this question can be difficult. Some sales are complete but others are still being closed. Even if you know the progress of...
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What’s a BI Application without User Interviews?
Enterprise Strategy
DataVis & Design
When companies set off to build their BI applications, the most common mistake they’ll fall into is foregoing user interviews. We often hear: “But we already know what we want. Here’s a...
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Starting an Analytics Revolution
Enterprise Strategy
WITH AXIS GROUP BEING THE GOLD SPONSOR FOR THE SOUTHERN DATA SCIENCE CONFERENCE, WE FELT IT WAS 100% APPROPRIATE TO HIJACK THE MOCK-UP MONDAY CHANNEL TO TALK ABOUT ADVANCED ANALYTICS. VIVA...
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Credit portfolio management (CPM) Visualizations
Industry Analytics
The current state of a financial institution’s risk profile may impact the interest rates it’s able to offer for new credit/loan accounts as it looks to mitigate/minimize its risk. Since...
Blog

AXIS GROUP OPENS NEW OFFICE IN ATLANTA, GA
Axis Newsroom
New location provides clients and employees better access to an innovative work space and attract more high-tech talent to the Atlanta area. SANDY SPRINGS, Georgia and BERKELEY HEIGHTS, New...
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Visualizing Hospital Acquired Conditions
Industry Analytics
With Big Data, comes big responsibility. Hospital-Acquired Conditions (HAC) tied with the ability to drill down at the incident level detail, enables the industry by enabling each member....
Blog

Begin with the End in Mind
DataVis & Design
Here at Axis group, we believe very strongly in Stephen Covey’s “7 Habits of Highly Effective People”. So much so, that “begin with the end in mind” is part of our core ideals. This is...
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Tying Together Your Financial and Operational Metrics
Industry Analytics
Many companies have financial metrics and operational metrics, but struggle to link operational performance to financial performance. A large, global manufacturing company had been...
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How Visualizations Can Help Marketing Companies
DataVis & Design
Direct marketing companies partner with local businesses to deliver print, mobile and online marketing solutions. A study found that direct marketing accounted for roughly 54% of ad...
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Increase Manufacturing Production Using Visualizations
DataVis & Design
Did you know that manufacturing accounts for 32% of total GDP? This $6.7 trillion-dollar piece of the economy is all around us in everything we do. When a piece of industry is so massive,...
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Minimizing Maintenance Cost with Visualization
DataVis & Design
Sometimes a bar chart or a table just doesn’t cut it. Spending in the U.S. logistics and transportation industry totaled $1.48 trillion in 2015, and represented 8 percent of annual gross...
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Is Your Company Suffering from Fraud?
Industry Analytics
The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners found that the typical organization lost 5% of their revenues to fraud each year. Even if you are affected, it can be hard to know. The average...
Blog

Qlik Sense Server Side Extensions Part 3/3: Resource Optimization and SSE Limitations
BI Software
AI/ML
This is the last of a three-part series on integrating Qlik Sense with Python (using Server Side Extensions). The first post was about some of the architecture and environment configuration...
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Qlik Sense Server Side Extensions Part 2/3: A Simple Example Plugin
BI Software
AI/ML
Last week I posted the first in a three-part series about integrating Python with Qlik using Server Side Extensions. In that post, we discussed the architecture and walked through setting...
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Qlik Sense Server Side Extensions Part 1/3: Architecture and Environment
BI Software
AI/ML
A few weeks ago, we recorded a video Podcast episode on which we discussed the integration of Qlik Sense and Python to deliver a marketing resource optimization solution (you can check it...
Blog

This Tree Can Help You Predict the Future
AI/ML
No, this post is not about some physical tree with mystical power, but rather about a wonderfully simple and powerful predictive analytic technique called a Decision Tree. Decision Trees...
Blog

The Analytics Buzz: Speros Kokenes on Data Visualization
DataVis & Design
Recently, Axis Group’s Director of Visual Analytics, Speros Kokenes, appeared on The Analytics Buzz, a podcast from the Business Analytics Center at Georgia Tech, to discuss data...
Blog

Descriptive, Predictive, and Prescriptive Analytics - Getting to know the right tools for the job
Enterprise Strategy
AI/ML
This is the first of a series of analytics and data science related posts I will write related to data science and analytics in business. In practice we (at Axis Group) see numerous...
Blog

Qlik Hack Challenge: Team Haxis Group
BI Software
DataVis & Design
Overview Two weeks before its Qonnections 2017 worldwide user conference, Qlik kicked off its Hack Challenge, where teams were invited to develop and present Qlik-based solutions to assist...
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Indianapolis 500 and Monaco Grand Prix Analytics
BI Software
DataVis & Design
With the Indianapolis 500 and Monaco Grand Prix this weekend, we thought we would share some auto-focused concept designs that our Visual Analytics Team worked on. Our team took statistical...
Blog

Axis Group Recognized as Qlik's North American Solution Provider Partner of the Year 2017
BI Software
Axis Newsroom
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ - Axis Group, a premier Business Intelligence solutions company, was recently honored with the North American Solution Provider Partner of the Year Award by Qlik®, a...
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Tutorial: How to Build a Qlik Sense Extension with D3
BI Software
The new Qlik Sense APIs make it extremely simple to build extensions that produce new visualizations. A common source of these visualizations is d3.js, a powerful javascript library for...
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Extending Qlik Sense Interactivity with a Qlik Mashup
BI Software
The QlikView and Qlik Sense platforms offer an amazing ability to interactively filter through dynamic data sets. However, the visualizations that sit on top of these data sets have in the...