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Too many companies struggle to ensure adequate Power BI performance and optimize usage. If you're in this camp, tune in to this webinar to hear our consultants describe how to make effective use of Power BI, improve performance, and avoid costly upgrades.

Based on real client experiences, our consultants will present a methodology for analyzing the root causes of Power BI performance issues and steps you can take to optimize Power BI resources and licensing.

This Webinar Will Cover:

● Workspace design and management

● DAX and SQL techniques

● Power BI applications

● Semantic models 

● Change management  

● System resource utilization 

● Power BI service vs desktop

● Self-service practices

● Golden datasets 

● Aggregate tables 

● And more...

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Many business and data executives salivate with the idea of monetizing data. Most see the volumes of transactional data as an underutilized and expensive corporate asset that could make millions of dollars or more a year, easing corporate budgets and strengthening bottom lines.

Although a few companies make tens or hundreds of millions of dollars selling corporate data sets, most do not. The journey to monetizing data is not a quick or easy one. There are many challenges and pitfalls along the way that executives need to address before they have a realistic chance of profiting from this traditional back-office asset.

In this webinar, Wayne Eckerson and Michael Hejtmanek explore the top pitfalls organizations face when attempting to monetize data, drawing on practical experience and real-world examples.

You will learn how to overcome these 7 pitfalls:

1. Assuming your data is valuable — without proof

2. Thinking your data is ‘ready’ when it’s not

3. Underestimating internal resistance

4. Overlooking legal, privacy or compliance risks until it’s too late

5. Building the wrong product — one that’s interesting, but not useful

6. Failing to treat data like a real product

7. Treating monetization as a one-off project, not an ongoing process

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It's been more than three decades since organizations began building data warehouses to improve reporting, analysis, and decision making. And ever since those early days, poor quality data has hampered these initiatives. It seems the state of data quality has changed little from the early years to today.

This webinar will review findings from a recent report on the state of data quality in 2025. It will discuss the most common data quality problems, the causes of those problems, the cost of poor quality data, the remedies companies today use to address data quality issues, and criteria for evaluating data quality tools.

You will also see how companies are using one data quality tool to get a handle on their data quality issues. Tune in to learn about the state of data quality and what your organization can do to address this perennial problem.

You Will Learn:

● The most common data quality problems

● The causes of those problems

● The cost of poor quality data

● Criteria for evaluating data quality tools

● A quick demo of one data quality tool 

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Every once in a while companies select data & analytics products, such cloud data platforms, ML/AI tools, and data catalogs. Organizations often bet hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars on these decisions. And staff have to interact with these tools and platforms for years, if not decades. Even tools purchased for a single department have long lifespans. So it's imperative that organizations make the right choices.

Given the stakes, data leaders need a rigorous methodology for evaluating and selecting data & analytics products.

Unfortunately, some data leaders rush the process and pay the consequences later when they discover the tools fail to perform as expected, they lack critical integrations, or teams refuse to use them.

In this webinar, Eckerson Group consultants step through the methodology and templates they use with clients to evaluate and select products. They discuss who should be involved in the process, how to avoid common pitfalls, and how to ensure adoption.

You Will Learn:

● When a formal product evaluation is required and when it's not. 

● Who should participate in a product evaluation, internally and externally.

● Pitfalls to avoid when evaluating and selecting products.

● The best way to compile evaluation criteria and score products.

● Whether and how to conduct a proof of concept.

● How to implement a product to ensure adoption.

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Data teams can design the most elegant data architectures, deploy leading-edge tools, and design exquisite data models, but if individuals and teams won't change the way they do business, your expensive investments will be all for naught.

In this webinar, Wayne Eckerson will present a framework he uses with clients to facilitate organization change. Although most companies aren't fortunate enough to hire professionally trained change managers, they can still effect positive change by adhering to a few core principles and enlisting help from program managers and inhouse marketing and communications professionals.