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    Cloud Horizon Models and Changing Responsibility

    The cloud can be a somewhat imprecise term. What does it mean to talk about migrating to the cloud or refactoring an application? In order to clear up some of this ambiguity I’ve found it useful to apply Horizon Models to cloud migration efforts. The use of a Horizon Model is to define the states of…

    Nathan Lasnoski
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    5 Things I Love and 5 Things I Hate about Microsoft Whiteboard

    I love the use of a whiteboard in collaborative meetings. It was one of my favorite things about meeting in-person and felt like it was a major loss when moving to a largely remote culture. I needed to replace the collaborative experience with something and also make way for a Hybrid workplace. Enter, Microsoft Whiteboard. I…

    Nathan Lasnoski
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    New column option in Model-Driven Apps

    Recently, Microsoft published the 2021 Wave 2 plans for Dynamics 365 (D365) & Power Platform , a compilation of new capabilities that are planned to be released between October 2021 and March 2022. Several functionalities will be accessible as part of early access in non-production environments from August. In this blog, we’ll go through the…

    Ajay Ravi
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    Using DAX Studio to Jump Start Your Data Dictionary

    Using DAX Studio To Jump Start Your Data Dictionary    In the world of analytics, understanding and being able to define your data is king in any data project. Organizations often focus on the early stage around getting systems set up and the technology behind the data, but they easily lose focus on the metrics and key information the business needs and the process to govern their…

    Concurrency, Inc.
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    How to Secure a Synapse Workspace with Active Directory groups 

    Azure Synapse is an enterprise analytics service that accelerates time to insight across data warehouses and big data systems. Azure Synapse brings together the best of SQL technologies used in enterprise data warehousing, Spark technologies used for big data, Pipelines for data integration and ETL/ELT, and deep integration with other Azure services such as Power BI,…

    Concurrency
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    Predicting Future Incident Counts – Use Regression Analysis!

    Regression Analysis is one of many ways in which forecasting and prediction can be done. This presents a brief step-by-step approach, using observed incident counts, to predict future incident trends to create a strong business case to executives for investing in further actions and improvements. Regression Analysis is a statistical approach that can be utilized…

    Concurrency
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    Radical Incident Reduction – The 30-30-30 Program

    Want to pump up your IT delivery with a program that excites executives, provides great business value and greatly lowers unplanned labor costs, incident volumes and service outages? The 30-30-30 Program is a fast-paced attention getting program that targets a 30% reduction in incident counts, 30% reduction in resolution times and a 30% increase in…

    Concurrency, Inc.
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    Azure ML Seaborn Module Not Found

    I was doing some testing in Azure Machine Learning Notebooks and ran into a problem where the module I was looking to use was not working properly. The error I recieved was “ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘seaborn’”. The code I used which resulted in this was: This was relatively easy to correct by opening a…

    Nathan Lasnoski
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    Windows 10 Universal Print Not Showing Up

    The team at Concurrency had made the transition to Zero Trust a couple years ago, with all laptops running Windows 10, Azure AD join, Intune managed, guest network joined, etc. The other day I had a reason to print a document, something that I haven’t done professionally in well over five years. Unfortunately, when searching…

    Nathan Lasnoski