Using Cyber Security Frameworks to Identify Training Needs
apr 7,
2020
Like most of you, I am working from home. I’ve been doing it for 25 years or so. Working from home provides a good opportunity to take classes without the usual work distractions. This is a great time for government agencies and private companies to bring employees up to speed in cyber security. Both cyber […]
Microsoft Excel Add-Ins Make You More Productive
aug 29,
2018
Productive Microsoft Excel Add-Ins There are many Microsoft Excel Add-Ins available for Free that can make you more productive. This article will show you how to find and install them on your local copy of Microsoft Excel. You can also install them in you Office365 copy of Excel as well. What is an Excel Add-In? […]
Interactive Visio Diagrams in Power BI Reports
aug 8,
2018
When I first evaluated Power BI a few years ago, the thing that impressed me most was that, unlike Sharepoint Power View, a developer could create new visualizations and integrate them into PBI. Some time later, Microsoft greatly expanded the ability of Power BI to include sophisticated graphs by adding to Power BI the ability […]
Cube Data and MDX Queries in R
jul 25,
2018
Using Microsoft olapR to Bring Analysis Services OLAP Data Into R Online Anaytical Processing (OLAP) and the R statistical language are both children of the 1990s. However, for much of the intervening time they inhabited different worlds. OLAP, and its query language MDX, lived in the world of databases and queries while R was the […]
Crafting a Strategic Response to the World You Live in with PESTLE
jun 19,
2018
The world is a big complicated place. A PESTLE analysis provides a way to understand your world…but that only matters if you turn the information PESTLE generates into something useful. Following your PESTLE analysis with three more steps (and merging it with another critical business analysis tool) can lead you to something actionable. As we […]