April 2019 - Visual BI Solutions

Data Visualization Foundation– Communicating with Charts & Graphs

by Trang Van Nguyen | Apr 29, 2019 | Business Intelligence, Dashboards, Tips and Tricks

Data Visualization as a Tool of Communication Despite the number of articles and books on data visualization, many people are still intimidated by the process of creating and formatting charts. Why can’t we have a precise formula that works? There is only a limited...

6 Steps to Perfect the Art of Gathering Requirements from Users

by Trang Van Nguyen | Apr 26, 2019 | Business Intelligence, Dashboards, Tips and Tricks

A most important milestone in building a dashboard is the meeting among all the stakeholders, especially end-users, to discuss and agree on the deliverables. This process is called requirement gathering meeting. At Visual BI, we call these sessions design workshops as...

Row Level Security – Azure SQL Server Security Recommendations (Part 2)

by Mohamed Ramees Raja | Apr 25, 2019 | Azure

This post is the continuation of the Azure SQL Server security recommendations series. In my previous blog, we went through the filter predicate. In this blog, we will cover block predicate and highlight some of the best practices recommended by Microsoft. ...

Parameterize Connections in Azure Data Factory

by Mohamed Kaja Nawaz | Apr 24, 2019 | Azure

Azure Data Factory is a managed cloud service that is built for complex data orchestration processes and hybrid extract-transform-load (ETL), extract-load-transform (ELT), and data integration projects. In this blog, we will demonstrate how to parameterize connection...

Best Practices for Installing Tableau on Azure

by Shankar Narayanan | Apr 23, 2019 | Azure, Tableau

In our previous blog, we discussed the best practices for installing Tableau on VMware. Now let us take a look at the best practices for installing Tableau on Azure. Azure is one of the widely used Cloud Providers and a lot of companies use Azure for their Computing...