Knowledge base

How An looks back to her internship at element61

Our intern An Bouckaert gained more practical experience in data science and data engineering during her internship at element61.

Bart Van Der Vurst

Wednesday 8 September 2021

When to use dbt or Delta Live Tables?

Why? Since data pipelines are far behind the efficiency of the software industry, tools are needed to bring the design up to speed and to guarantee data quality. This optimisation and performance improvement can happen with tools such as dbt and...

Kyana Bosschaerts

Friday 30 July 2021

What is dbt & what does it offer?

What is dbt? dbt is an open-source transformation tool that aims to simplify the work of the analytic engineer in the data pipeline workflow. It specifically implements only the T in the ETL process. The greatest feature is that it focuses on...

Kyana Bosschaerts

Friday 30 July 2021

Azure Synapse serverless - an addition to your data warehouse setup?

Is Azure Synapse Serverless a complementary solution to your current data warehouse setup?

Peter Depypere

Tuesday 29 June 2021

SAP Analytics Cloud and BPC - a hybrid approach

Both SAP BPC standard & embedded versions have been around for years and are proven solutions for covering planning requirements. However, planning requirements are changing.

Rose Nguyen

Monday 19 April 2021

Planning Analytics Workspace administration

Introduction The new version of Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) offers a very useful Administration Page to manage users, administer databases, migrate assets, and process other administrative actions. The Administration page is accessed from the...

Pieter-Jan Beckers

Thursday 4 February 2021

Planning Analytics Workspace guided planning

Introduction In the latest version of planning analytics workspace (PAW) there is a new feature called “guided planning”, also sometimes referred to as workflows. This new feature available as of version 2.0.57 is placed under a new...

Pieter-Jan Beckers

Thursday 4 February 2021

Capital expense planning within CCH TAGETIK Smart NOW Capital Expenses Planning app

Facilitating the planning for new assets, calculating the future depreciation and evaluating the financial impact. Significance of Capital expense planning In the budget cycle, when planning for new assets, one needs to keep an eye on both the...

Jonathan De Pauw

Tuesday 26 January 2021

DAX Studio: your companion to improve the performance of your Power BI and Tabular solutions

1 Introduction Modern analytical tools like Power BI are designed to deliver results in a very fast and dynamic way. However, a problem in your data model or overcomplex calculations, can result in a slower report. How to investigate this? DAX...

Sven Pauwels

Monday 11 January 2021

There's a Power BI flavor for every organization! Meet Power BI Premium per user

At the beginning of November, Microsoft launched two new products: Power BI Premium 2nd generation backend offering. Power BI Premium per user , which is a new frontend license. The launch of Power BI Premium per user was made possible by releasing...

Timothy Van Brusselen

Saturday 9 January 2021