Introduction On February 23, 2021, Microsoft released a new beta certification exam, Exam DP-203: Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure. It is replacing the exams DP-200: Implementing an Azure Data Solution, and DP-201: Designing an Azure Data Solution. These previous exams DP-200 and DP-201 will retire on June 30, 2021. When passing the two old exams […]
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Microsoft Ignite – The official Lytix Recap
Microsoft Ignite, the most prominent technology innovation event of the year, hosted by Microsoft, is just around the corner. There has been a lot going on during the past week: this 2021 edition was full of surprises and had some amazing announcements in store. Who else than Lytix to keep you up-to-date with the most […]
Lesson learned at the customer: Merging two tables to calculate On Time In Full (OTIF) [Part III]
In this final blog, we discuss the measures that have to be made. Note: this is the third part of the blog. Missed the second part? Read it here. Calculations From here on out we will continue with all the calculations that have to take place to get to the end result of the time aspect of OTIF. […]
Process Mining, the pounding heart of the intelligent enterprise
Process Mining provides you with an objective and quick diagnosis on the actual execution of your business processes by extracting the necessary information from your IT systems. In the past this was a tedious task based upon lots of interviews and in more than 98% a misrepresentation of reality. Process Mining removes this unreliability of this tedious task […]
Power BI: Paginated Reports
One of the most valuable, yet less used functionalities of Power BI is ‘Paginated Reports’. This article will explain what they are, when you need to use them and how they can benefit your organisation. At the end, some samples can be downloaded that demo the functionality. Starting-Off with an Example As you can see […]
Transfer learning in Spark for image recognition
Transfer learning in Spark demystified in less than 3 minutes reading Introduction Businesses that want to classify a huge set of images in batch per day can do this by leveraging the parallel processing power of PySpark and the accuracy of models trained on a huge set of images using transfer learning. Let’s first explain […]
Premium Per User (PPU) explained
Just last week, the Power BI CAT team extended their current licensing model with the release of Premium Per User (PPU) under public preview. On what ground exactly do current licensing models differ from this new release? We’re reaching our next destination: Premium Per User! What Power BI licensing offerings Microsoft already had in store? First […]
Things to consider when creating a Data Lake
Have you wondered what a data lake is? What are typical use cases for this lake? How can you benefit from a data lake are? In this blog post, we will show you the added value of a data lake while pointing-out some pitfalls and best-practices. Before diving into data lakes (ba-dum-tsss), let us start […]
Azure Synapse Analytics
Organizations understand the value of data more than ever. A Data Warehouse as a single source of truth, a data lake to store data for analytical exploration, self-service tools for data transformation, visualisation, and consumption as well as clusters to process immense data volumes. All these different use cases require other specialised tools resulting in […]
The Data Vault Methodology
Data Warehouses have served the purpose of providing a source of value-added information for quite some decades. In supporting business users in their day-to-day operations, Data Warehouses integrate multiple sources used throughout the organisation, track history for knowledge improvements, auditing and compliancy, and provide the business with an easy-to-access and easy-to-explore insight layer. While Data […]
