Author: David Kettinger

Databricks vs Microsoft Fabric: Choosing the Right Foundation for Your Enterprise Analytics

May 30, 2025 | by David Kettinger

In the high-stakes world of enterprise analytics, choosing the wrong data platform can cost your organization millions in wasted resources and missed opportunities. As data volumes explode and AI transforms business operations, organizations face a critical question: build your analytics foundation on mature, data science-centric Databricks technology, or embrace Microsoft’s new integrated, user-friendly Fabric ecosystem? At QuickLaunch Analytics, we’ve worked extensively with both and witnessed firsthand what works, what doesn’t, and which platform is ready for enterprise-grade analytics. This comprehensive comparison will help you understand which company might better align with your enterprise data strategy in today’s rapidly evolving tech

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Maximize Efficiency with Supply and Demand Planning Analytics for JD Edwards

June 19, 2024 | by David Kettinger

Today, according to Allied Market Research on Supply Chain Management, only 6% of companies claim to have full visibility into their supply chain. Furthermore, their 2023 report claims that organizations can double profits by reducing supply chain costs. This indicates that most companies can stand to make a lot more money if they are able to increase transparency through better access to supply chain information and more efficient processes. At QuickLaunch Analytics, we’ve been helping manufacturing companies that run JD Edwards gain visibility into their supply chain processes since 2002 with our QuickLaunch for JDE solution. The latest QuickLaunch product

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Power BI Updates for Enterprise Analytics: Q2 2023 – Part 1

June 29, 2023 | by David Kettinger

As we move towards the holiday season, let’s review what the Power BI team has been up to over the summer and early fall of 2023.

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Power BI Updates for QuickLaunch Customers: Q3 2021

November 18, 2021 | by David Kettinger

As we move towards the holiday season, let’s review what the Power BI team has been up to over the summer and early fall of 2021.

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Power BI Updates for QuickLaunch Customers: Q2 2021

July 7, 2021 | by David Kettinger

The Power BI team has been releasing new features in full force. Q2 has seen a steady stream of updates to all areas of the platform.

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Power BI Updates for QuickLaunch Customers: Q1 2021

March 23, 2021 | by David Kettinger

Power BI was named a leader in the Gartner magic quadrant again this year. (Be sure to check out our interactive analysis of the Magic quadrant here.) A major factor of Power BI’s success has been the dedication by Microsoft to continuously improve the Power BI product suite with updates that are demand-driven and consistent.

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Interactive Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics Trend Analysis

March 8, 2021 | by David Kettinger

In this article we showcase an interactive version of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence (ABI) built using Microsoft’s Power BI platform. Using this interactive view of the data, you can see how vendors have trended over the past 11 years.

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Power BI Updates for QuickLaunch Customers: 2020 in Review - Part 3 - Admins & Content Managers

Power BI Updates for QuickLaunch Customers: 2020 in Review – Part 3 – Admins & Content Managers

January 15, 2021 | by David Kettinger

In the third part of our 2020 in Review series, we cover new features and enhancements to the product designed to help users who are responsible for administering the usage, deployment, and adoption of Power BI within their organizations.

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Power BI Updates for QuickLaunch Customers: 2020 in Review – Part 2 – Designers

December 23, 2020 | by David Kettinger

Designing reports and dashboards in Power BI is exciting because things are constantly being upgraded to make your life easier and more interesting. The Power BI team releases updates for Power BI Desktop on a monthly cadence. In the second part of our 2020 in Review series, we will review some of our favorite updates for Power BI users that are responsible for creating reports and dashboards.

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Power BI Updates for QuickLaunch Customers: 2020 in Review – Part 1 – Consumers

December 15, 2020 | by David Kettinger

The Power BI team constantly rolls out new features and enhancements to the Power BI platform including updates to the Power BI Desktop, the Power BI Service, and the Power BI Mobile App. While it is awesome that Microsoft is committed to this continuous delivery strategy to quickly push updates into production, sometimes it can feel like drinking out of a firehose when trying to keep up with all the latest news.

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