Mercedes-Benz Korea and Databricks piloted an AI-powered "Talk to Data" system using Unity Catalog, Metric Views, Genie, and Agent Bricks to deliver governed, explainable analytics at enterprise scale…
Data science and data analytics are distinct career paths with different focuses, skills, and educational requirements. Data analytics interprets existing data to identify trends and inform business d…
As of May 2026, four major business intelligence tools—Looker, Tableau, Power BI, and Mode—have varying levels of Model Context Protocol (MCP) coverage, enabling AI agents to access dashboards, datase…
Meta announced layoffs of 8,000 employees and canceled 6,000 open requisitions, many for software engineers, while Google's CEO reported 75% of new code is now AI-generated. Stanford researchers found…
Power BI has introduced user-aware calculated columns that evaluate at query time under the security context of the individual user running the report. The feature, enabled by setting Expression Conte…
Microsoft Fabric has introduced AI Functions that integrate generative AI directly into pandas and Spark workflows as standard data transformation steps, rather than requiring separate chatbot applica…
Databricks released a new feature that simplifies how Power BI customers manage data and build AI agents on its platform, effectively diverting workloads from Microsoft's competing Fabric offering. Th…
This article describes an enterprise integration pattern where a Dataverse plugin publishes a small metadata message to an Azure Service Bus Topic, rather than directly calling multiple downstream sys…
The article explains how Power Query, a tool built into Microsoft Excel and Power BI, can be used as an efficient alternative to Python for automating web data extraction in enterprise SEO and analyti…
Here is a factual summary of the article: The article outlines seven common design mistakes that cause semantic layer projects to fail, emphasizing that failures stem from early design decisions rath…
This article provides a DAX script for creating a reusable calendar table in Power BI. The script generates common time-intelligence columns such as Year, Month, Quarter, and Week, using the `CALENDAR…
Headless BI is an architecture pattern that decouples metric definitions and business logic from visualization tools, addressing problems like definition duplication, tool lock-in, and AI agent exclus…
As Microsoft Copilot in Power BI uses semantic model metadata to answer business questions, this metadata must be treated as critical engineering assets—reviewed, versioned, and stored in source contr…