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Power BI personal bookmarks let end users save customized views of any report, including filters, slicers, sort orders, and cross-highlights, without changing the report for anyone else. This is an incredibly useful feature even at its most basic level, and yet most people never use them, which means they are missing an opportunity to go from passively reading to saving themselves time, or even actively adding value through it. I've been working with Power BI across enterpris

If you'll get into a stranger's car, then why won't you trust your colleague's sales report? It's a fair question, and it gets at something I think about a lot when helping organisations with their self-service data strategy. We trust platforms like Uber, Airbnb, and Tinder with some pretty significant decisions, often involving strangers, money, or both. But inside our own organisations, people won't touch a dataset they didn't build themselves. Self-service data strategy su

Early in my career, I learned that you can make any metric turn green if you try hard enough. Fresh out of university, I asked the IT department director how I could add more value. He showed me an email that came in every week. Our department had one of the worst IT incident SLA metrics globally. As an eager graduate, I saw my chance to shine. I dug into the numbers and discovered something interesting: if you put a ticket on hold, the clock stopped. So I created a one-page