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Innovative desktop applications and utilities designed to enhance your Power BI, Fabric, and data analytics workflows. Built by our team to solve real-world challenges we encounter in client engagements, these professional-grade tools extend the capabilities of Microsoft's platform with enterprise-ready features and security.

Power BI Report Merger

Professional-grade PBIP report consolidation

Intelligently merge multiple Power BI reports while preserving all content, resolving conflicts, and maintaining professional themes. Features smart analysis, real-time progress tracking, and comprehensive audit logging.

Key Features:

  • Smart conflict resolution for pages, bookmarks & measures

  • Automatic theme conflict detection and selection

  • Enterprise-grade security and audit logging

  • PBIR format validation and support

  • Professional desktop interface

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 Watch what you can do with Synoptic Panel and ask any questions about its features, its development, and its future!

Introducing PBI Report Merger - Intelligent PBIP Report Consolidation Tool
Introducing PBI Report Merger - Intelligent PBIP Report Consolidation Tool

Transform how you combine Power BI reports with this professional-grade desktop application!

This tool intelligently merges multiple PBIP reports while preserving all pages, bookmarks, measures, and handling theme conflicts automatically.

SQL Server 2025 vs Power Query: Fuzzy Matching (with Rob Farley)
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We’ll unpack how each tool handles fuzzy logic, where they converge, and where they don’t. We’ll also explore scaling options, so that you can see ways to make this work beyond your PoC. Spoiler: the most powerful path forward might not be the one you’re expecting.

Understand Metadata Driven Pipelines in Azure Data Factory and Fabric Pipelines
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Learn how metadata-driven pipeline can use a single pipeline design to handle many different datasets, with a simple example using Microsoft Fabric Pipelines.

Power BI Variance Chart Makeover: Cleaner, Smarter, More Insightful
Power BI Variance Chart Makeover: Cleaner, Smarter, More Insightful

Want cleaner, more actionable variance charts in Power BI? In this video, I’ll show you how to take a basic combo chart and transform it into an IBCS-inspired (multi tier) variance chart using DAX and visual calculations.