Siloed and Slow: What Happens When You Aren’t Using Power BI’s Data Model “Brain”

Resuming from Last Week Last week’s post left off here:  most BI still relies on the storage layer (SQL or its many cousins) to be the brain, and storage layers are terrible brains because they were designed for storage, not for analysis. This week, I hope to explain the following points: Storage brains are siloed brains. Storage brains are slow – in two ways. Using Power BI doesn’t help much unless you use it properly Let’s “tease” point #3 real quick… It’s kind of a shame that the narrative flow “buries” point 3 near the end, so let’s give you a preview of that right here, up front, before circling back to the sequential agenda. In last week’s article, I talked about the rise of the dumb reporting tools – the ones that depend on the storage layer to be the “brain.”  Power BI is very, very different.  It’s SMART.  […]