This page includes history prior to fall of 2019.
For my latest publications, please see my new site at Coates Data Strategies.
BlueGranite Blog + E-Books
Why Power BI Shared Datasets are Critical to a Self-Service BI Implementation (July 2019)
10 Things to Know About Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 (March 2019)
Is Azure SQL Data Warehouse the Right Fit? (V2 w/ major revisions Jan 2019)
Top 5 Strategic Considerations for Choosing Architecture Components in Azure (Oct 2018)
Data Lakes in a Modern Data Architecture (e-book published June 2018)
Older posts published prior to fall 2016:
Top 3 Reasons to Upgrade Your Analytics Environment to SQL Server 2016
Azure Data Catalog: Improve Your BI Program Effectiveness
What the Pyramid Analytics Partnership Means for Power BI
Big Changes - What You Need to Know About the Power BI Preview
What Type of Self-Service BI Culture Do You Wish to Cultivate?
What Types of Projects to Consider for Microsoft Power BI
Overview of Self-Service Capabilities for Self-Service BI Users
Microsoft Publications
Planning a Power BI Enterprise Deployment - published July 2018 (coauthored with Chris Webb)
Power BI Governance and Deployment Whitepaper - published Jan 2016 (coauthored with Javier Guillen)
SentryOne Blog
Getting Started with Automated ARM Deployments in Azure - published June 2017
Overview of Columnstore Indexes in SQL Server - published Feb 2017