When life seems jolly rotten there’s something you’ve forgotten
Viruses, hurricanes and fires. Economic recession, job loss and evictions. Things are tough all over and it can be challenging to find the silver lining these days. But there are some bright spots if you know where look. Some of the positives can be uncovered with tools like Microsoft Power BI. There’s a lot of data out there and, turns out, it’s not all bad news.
Read MorePower BI is an amazing tool for aggregating data and gaining insights that are difficult to extract from a spreadsheet, or even worse, several spreadsheets.
At Kiefer Consulting, we are proud of our reputation for building sophisticated solutions that streamline processes, improve communication and enable collaboration. We’re also constantly striving to improve how we work so we regularly build solutions for internal use as well. These solutions are built with the same outcomes in mind.
Read MoreWhy it might be the right time for Microsoft Government Community Cloud (GCC) subscribers to consider moving from G3 to G5.
The times they are a changin’. Has your Microsoft 365 license kept up? The modern workplace of today looks a lot different than it did just five months ago. No matter your license level, Microsoft 365 Government Plans provide state and local agencies with a host of powerful tools that help make things like, say, suddenly transitioning to a remote work environment a lot more tenable.
Read MoreData is everywhere. It’s in all our devices and it’s constantly being shuttled back and forth, downloaded, uploaded, shared and emailed. And we’re constantly creating more data. In fact, we generate so much data it can seem overwhelming trying to figure out ways to make use of it. Where do you even begin?
Read MoreThe tools that empower the modern workplace are here. This blog shares how organizations can leverage these tools to improve collaboration and communication.
Read MoreOffice 365 comes loaded with useful apps – here are five you may be overlooking.
For many users of Office 365, familiar applications like Outlook, Office and Excel are the extent to which the powerful suite of tools is leveraged. Sharp-eyed users may have spotted other applications with names like Yammer, WhiteBoard and Visio. It turns out that, depending on your Office 365 subscription, you may have access to a host of wildly useful apps that you may have never even opened.
Read MoreThe Kiefer Data Analytics and Visualization Practice Group has successfully helped clients better interact with their data and rapidly deploy business intelligence dashboards using Microsoft’s business intelligence tool, Power BI.
Read More“Look and feel” is an important consideration when building a solution that’s success is highly dependent upon user adoption. It is not unusual for our team of consultants to help customers in incorporating branding elements, so the application, website, or dashboard matches corporate themes. Power BI is no exception and organization’s have been looking to Kiefer to assist in the customized branding of the service and Power BI dashboards.
Read MoreIt’s been 4 years since Microsoft announced general availability for the Power BI platform. Since the introduction of Power BI, Microsoft has not only proven that they could compete with the leaders in the enterprise BI space, but they had the market strength and investments to displace leaders in the category.
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