Saurabh Desai

Saurabh Desai is a BI Architect/Senior BI Developer, working in the Financial industry. In his early career, he worked on ASP.Net and Windows .NET technologies using C# and Visual Basic. Now he works with Qlikview, Power BI, R, SQL Server, SSAS, SSIS and SSRS. In his free time, he explores various BI tools features with realtime analytics, predictive analytics, integration and connectivity with Hadoop, and other tools.

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17 July 2017
17 July 2017

The Best of Both Worlds: Using Excel and Power BI Together

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Excel and Power BI work well together. This allows you to use the two tools together to provide for many types of business workflow and BI practices. You can publish an Excel file to Power BI to share with others, analyse a Power BI dataset in Excel or import either an Excel workbook or Excel data to Power BI. You can gain the workgroup power and business-orientation of Power BI without losing the ease and versatility of Excel. Saurabh shows how.… Read more
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19 May 2017
19 May 2017

Deploying, Securing, and Updating Power BI Reports

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Before Excel and other data-linked spreadsheets, business reports needed to be hand-crafted by IT experts, and changes were arbitrated slowly via change control. Power BI was designed to take the liberation that Excel pioneered to the max, by allowing 'power' users to not only to create Power BI desktop reports, graphics and visualisations in Power BI App, but then link and publish these to the Power BI app. These in turn can be given row level security and have their underlying data kept up-to-date so that users can log in and see the relevant and appropriate data in a browser. Saurabh Desai shows how.… Read more
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28 February 2017
28 February 2017

Using an R Package within SQL Server with Real time analysis in Power BI

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We all know how easy it is to run R, together with dependent packages, from SQL Server on order to do statistical analysis, and then turn the result into a real-time graph using Power BI; but can you actually do it? Saurabh Desai gives a step-by-step hand-holding guide to turn even the most timid into a BI guru. There is nothing difficult in using R in SQL Server 2016 once you know the steps.… Read more
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