Manikandan Muruganantham, Author at Visual BI Solutions

Alteryx Weekly Challenge – Dice Game

by Manikandan Muruganantham | Jul 31, 2019 | Alteryx, Self-Service BI

Introduction The Alteryx technical communicate is very active. In addition to the learning materials available in Alteryx Academy, they also provide various business scenarios through the “Weekly Challenge”. Anyone can solve the challenges posted in the...

Self-Service tools with ETL Capabilities: A quick comparison

by Snehaa Selvakumaran, Manikandan Muruganantham and Suriya Sugumaran | Jul 22, 2019 | Power BI, Self-Service BI, Tableau

1. Introduction Over the past couple of years, there has been a strong inclination in the BI market towards Self-Service tools. This blog aims at providing a brief comparison between the three Self-service tools with ETL capabilities: Alteryx 2019.1.6.58192, Tableau...

Exporting Measure and Column formulas from Power BI

by Manikandan Muruganantham | Jul 10, 2019 | Power BI

Power BI supports extensive Data Analysis Expressions(DAX) scripting to achieve complex business scenarios. It is a good practice to maintain a document for each report which helps in future development. The Document can include screenshots of Report Pages, Purpose of...

SAP Analytics Cloud – Application Design Series: 13 – Date & Time Range Functions

by Manikandan Muruganantham and Visual BI | Apr 2, 2019 | Analytic Applications, Application Design, SAP Analytics Cloud

In the previous blog of this series, we learned how to launch Smart Discovery from analytic applications in SAP Analytics Cloud. In this blog, let us look at Date and Time Range functions and how to use them. Analytic Applications support passing single or multiple...

SAP Analytics Cloud – Application Design Series: 12 – Smart Discovery

by Manikandan Muruganantham and Visual BI | Apr 1, 2019 | Analytic Applications, Application Design, SAP Analytics Cloud

[Last updated: 12th of April 2019, SAP Analytics Cloud Version 2019.7] In the previous blog in this series, we learnt how to invoke the explorer functionality on-demand in analytic applications in SAP Analytics Cloud. In this blog, let us look at how to launch Smart...