Phone Call Business Intelligence with Power BI and FoneBox
Microsoft Power BI lets you build dashboards and interactive reports from your existing data. It can connect to pretty much any data source and also comes with a bunch of built in connectors to services like Google Analytics, Facebook, Quickbooks Online etc. We’ve been working on a range of Power BI connectors for our accommodation […]
Connecting Xero to Power BI for detailed, up to date reporting
Last week I connected NewBook to Microsoft’s Power BI for our Accommodation provider clients. This weekend I gave Xero the same treatment, and it’s worked out better than I thought. Some tech stuff The architecture of this solution is pretty much the same as the NewBook solution. A .net console app runs as an Azure […]
Unlock insight with NewBook and Power BI
Powerful, easy up to date reporting on all devices with Power BI We support a large number of tourist park operators and accommodation providers running NewBook, a cloud based reservation system. We got in touch with the developers last week and asked if we could get API access to a test tenant to see if we […]
Sending our Temperature data to the cloud for Power BI
In the previous post I outlined connecting our temperature/humidity sensor to a Raspberry Pi and taking a reading from it. The next step is to send that data to the cloud and make use of it in Power BI. Here’s a basic outline of the process Of course, Power BI isn’t the only thing you […]
Connect a DHT11 Temperature/Humidity sensor to a Raspberry Pi
At GCITS we’re getting familiar with the Internet of Things (IoT). To start with, we’re connecting sensors to the cloud to make use of the real time data. As a quick test, we want to connect a temperature sensor in our office to our dashboard in Power BI. The first step is to get a […]