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Said individual was thrilled to be shown the Power BI report where a single click provided the answer. Even today, a client told me a story about a team member who last week printed out a 30-page report and was planning to go line by line through it, re-keying a subset of the data into Excel (manually!) to get a total of how many units of Product X they’d sold in the prior month. And we have a LONG ways to go to get there. Until the world stops using Reporting as a crude form of database access (to power its Excel analysis), the fight is not over.
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Below the radar of IT and invisible, and crude compared to the Analysis you can perform in Power BI, but Analysis nonetheless. Keep in mind that a LARGE percentage of “usage” of Reporting is not “looking at it with our eyeballs” usage, but rather EXPORT usage, which powers ANALYTICAL work in Excel. So we have a ways to go before Analysis equals or eclipses Reporting in usage, but the wind has most definitely shifted. Analysis Will Keep Stealing Usage Share for Awhile Of course, what they SHOULD be doing is buying platforms capable of BOTH, which is kinda the focus of today’s article. And in fact, lots of people ARE buying pure Analysis platforms like Tableau. No one is BUYING platforms which are 100% traditional reporting – not anymore. So Analysis isn’t dominating usage today, but it IS dominating mindshare. For example, right now around the world, there are probably three people using a Traditional report for every one person using an Analytical one. I’d like to start by clarifying what I mean when I say Analysis has “won.” Even today, traditional reporting is STILL the majority of the “biomass” in the BI world.
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Today, we’ll explore how you can use both Power BI and Paginated Reports together, as part of a wholistic system.