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Learning Guide: Azure Data Solution Architecture Resources
set of curated resources that will get you started. The resources are split into a number of sections that roughly follow the order of your design decisions. With the wide variety of possible architectures, this post concentrates on a data reporting and analytics style of solution.

Learning Guide: How to Get Started with Power BI Embedded Development
One of the most challenging aspects of developing your own application is adding reporting capabilities. Power BI Embedded gives you the ability to include the capabilities of Power BI while hosting the reports in your application. This post provides a curated resource guide.

Why You Need a Data Governance Process Now!!
This article reviews Data Governance Initiatives to determine how to secure data usage, manage activity, gain visibility, and control of one of your most important assets. Whether on-premises or in the cloud, more employees are using and sharing an ever-increasing amount of data throughout your organization.

Learning Guide: Microsoft Azure Data Engineering – Ingest and Transform Data
The Ingestion and Transforming of data in Microsoft’s Azure Platform can cover a wide variety of topics a Microsoft Azure Data Engineer needs to know. This post covers some must-have documentation, tutorials, and demos to help you through the topic.

Introducing Power BI Object-level Security
This walk-through and resource list will provide an introduction of Power BI’s Object-Level Security (OLS) and when combined with Row-Level security (RLS), you can secure and hide specific metrics, measures, tables, or columns from report viewers when using Roles.

Top 11 Data Announcements from Build (2021)
There were several interesting Data & AI announcements that came out of Microsoft Build 2021. I put together this summary of 11 interesting and includes links to both the announcements and other follow-on information.

Power BI Tutorial – How to DAX: Distinct Count and Filters – How many Open Cases do I Have Today?
Being a Power BI enthusiast, I always find DAX a challenge but have found success by keeping to a couple of simple tricks. In this Power BI Tutorial, we review my DAX development workflow through an example case where we will use Power BI Desktop to create a KPI measure

Azure Data & AI Newsletter (May 2021)
This article is a summary newsletter covering some of the news, announcements, new resources published by Microsoft this month in the Azure Data & AI space, including Azure Dev Ops and Synapse integrations walkthroughs.

How to Pick the Perfect Color Combination for Power BI
Once you have your data, the most significant part of the decision process could be the most important; choosing a color scheme. This article will cover a couple of great starting places and resources for your Power BI visualization.