Manikandan Muruganantham, Author at Visual BI Solutions

Fetching Top N Records in Alteryx

by Manikandan Muruganantham | Aug 15, 2019 | Alteryx

In a large dataset, when you want to focus on certain data you can apply filtering/ aggregating/ fetching top or bottom data. Alteryx provides an enormous tool to achieve this data preparation. In our previous blog, we solved one of the weekly challenges to...

SAP Analytics Cloud – Consuming spatial data from BW4HANA Live Model

by Manikandan Muruganantham and Jothi G | Aug 4, 2019 | SAP Analytics Cloud

SAP Analytics Cloud supports powerful location analytics with various map layers. For Import data models, Location Dimensions can be defined as spatial data to build a Geo Map. In this blog, let us learn how to consume spatial data from BW4HANA as Live Connection to...

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...