Bespoke Software, Learning Management Systems & E-Learning - Latest Posts
How to get started with Power BI in your organisation - 5 recent lessons
11 Jul 17
Mike
Dashboards & Data Warehousing
We’ve been doing a lot of Power BI projects recently and have some insights about implementation that are worth sharing. Both client organisations are in the education and training world but the lessons could apply to organisations in other sectors.
STEM Learning - Data Warehouse and Microsoft Power BI Reporting Solution
30 Jun 17
Mike
Dashboards & Data Warehousing
STEM Learning in York is a leading provider of training and other support to teachers in the UK. They deliver high quality continuing professional development courses to STEM teachers - training that empowers teachers to improve the outcomes of young people studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics. They also provide free online resources for teachers and they manage the STEM Ambassadors programme - a national network of experienced volunteers from industry who go into schools to work directly with young people.
Power BI - Dashboards vs. Reports
23 Jun 17
Mike
Dashboards & Data Warehousing
Dashboards and reports both appear in the Power BI online service. At first glance they seem to be very similar and anyone coming to the Power BI service for the first time from the Power BI Desktop application will wonder why we need dashboards when we've already got interactive reports that seem to do almost the same job. The are some important differences though and dashboards will make a lot more sense when you think about how they might be used.
SIR Data Insights - Getting Ready for the 2016/17 Workforce Data Upload
SIR Data Insights - the national FE sector workforce data service - is ready for the 2016/17 SIR25 upload window. All FE colleges in England are encouraged to submit workforce data - the staff individualised record - to the online service when the upload window opens at the start of July. Independent training providers, charities and adult and community learning organisations are also encouraged to make a submission.
Improving Performance in Higher Education with Microsoft Power BI
Many organisations would make smarter decisions if they could make better use of data they hold in different management information systems . They struggle because much of their data is hard to access, hard to join up with data from other systems and even harder to share across the organisation before it becomes out of date.
Why you should develop a bespoke learning management system to deliver compliance training to multiple clients
From time to time we get asked to develop a bespoke learning management system for a training provider that wants to use e-learning to deliver compliance type training to multiple client organisations. Most of those training providers are already using an established off the shelf system - either Moodle or a commercial Software as a Service (SaaS) solution.
Power BI - DAX Functions - CALCULATE and ALL
This example shows you how to CALCULATE and ALL in Power BI to create a simple measure that returns the start date for each unique run or instance of a course.
Working with a software development company - why your project management matters
24 May 17
Mike
Bespoke Software
Effective project management is an essential part of any software development project and most software development companies will use a dedicated project manager to deliver the project on time and budget. Even small projects - just 1 developer - need someone to keep an eye on costs, progress and overall quality.
Power BI - How to show rows excluded by slicer
This was a problem that took me a little bit longer to solve than I expected.
We’ve developed a business intelligence solution for a training organisation that works with schools and teachers. The back end data warehouse is built in SQL Server and hosted in Azure. The front end is a Power BI reporting solution - a set of management information reports for drilling into data about course enrolments, website registrations and other kinds of engagement with teachers.
We’ve developed a business intelligence solution for a training organisation that works with schools and teachers. The back end data warehouse is built in SQL Server and hosted in Azure. The front end is a Power BI reporting solution - a set of management information reports for drilling into data about course enrolments, website registrations and other kinds of engagement with teachers.
6 essential features of a bespoke learning management system
02 May 17
Mike
Learning Management Systems
A bespoke learning management system is a cost effective solution for any organisation looking for an alternative to Moodle or other off the shelf systems. Modern web development technologies make software development more affordable and with a bespoke development you can create a more streamlined system that exactly fits your needs; corporate or business users in particular always prefer simpler software that does less better.
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EQUAL - Bespoke E-Learning Platform
Read about how we developed a bespoke learning management system for The Skills Network
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E-Learning Design - Social Care
Read about the work we're doing for the National Association for Providers of Activities for Older People
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Software Development - clickLearner
Read about how we developed a new video based e-learning solution for a Sheffield company.
