What is the best data plan overall. I can't decide how many GB of data to get...

I can't decide how many GB of data to get...

You can change the data plan on a monthly basis. So as a start, choose one of the smaller amounts, use it for a month or two. Then look at your account and see how much data you are using on a regular basis. If you use a lot of data and need a bigger plan, choose that for next month. However, if you use less data, move to a smaller plan. I did this, and since I'm on WiFi most of the time at home and at work, I migrated to the smallest 3G data plan.

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My original question was:
what's the optimum way of exposing data to the Power BI cloud?
Having spent the last month faffing about with Power BI – and reading about many people’s experiences using it – I think I can offer a few preliminary conclusions.
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Melissa said “My initial thoughts: I would expose each dim & fact as a separate OData feed” and went on to say “one of the hardest things . . . is
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Greg said “data modeling is not a good thing to expose end users to . . . we've had better luck with is building out the data model, and teaching the users
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far has been mostly a bust”.
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For the very few high-power users, that means the ability to interrogate the data warehouse directly, extract the required data, and construct data mining models, spreadsheets and other
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v
80%+ of all enterprise reporting requirement is satisfied by corporate BI . . . if it’s done right.
v Very few staff members have the time, skills, or inclination to learn and employ self-service business intelligence in the course of their activities.
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I think that clean and well-structured data is a prerequisite for delivering business intelligence.
Assuming that data is properly integrated, historically accurate and non-volatile as well, then I've just described
a data warehouse, which is the physical expression of the dimensional model.
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Of course, we can choose to expose perspectives as well, which is functionally identical to building and exposing subject data marts.
That way, all calculations, KPIs, definitions, and even field names, and all consistent because they all come from the single source of the truth, and not from spreadmart hell.
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That’s fine for the general case, but what about Power BI? Well, it’s important to distinguish between new capabilities in Excel, and the ones in Office 365.
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According to
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has over just telling corporate users to go directly to the Cube Perspective they want, that has already all the right calcs, KPIs, security, analytics, field names . . . and most importantly, is already modelled correctly!
If I’m a real Power User, then I can use PQ on my desktop to pull mashup data from the world, along with all my on-prem data through my exposed Cube presentation layer, and PowerPivot the
heck out of that to produce all the reporting I’d ever want. It'd be a zillion times faster reading the data directly from the Cube instead of via the DMG, as well (I think Power BI performance sucks, actually).
Of course, your enterprise might not
have a DW, just a heterogeneous mass of dirty unstructured data. If that’s the case,
choosing Power BI data structures is the least of your problems! :-)
Cheers, Donna
Donna Kelly

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