Even newer slicers

If you want to allow the user to filter a report or one of its parts, you can do so by adding a Slicer visual. Traditional slicers are just fine, New Slicer visual has brought some additional improvements, and recently three new, similar visualizations have appeared, which can improve the quality of your reports. Let’s see what it’s all about.

How to write a good prompt?

When creating queries to Microsoft Copilot, it’s important to be concise and clear. There are rules on how to write a quality prompt, and if you follow them, the likelihood of getting the desired response in fewer steps increases. However, keep in mind that artificial intelligence is not omnipotent or intelligent, but that it is a complex software that has access to a huge knowledge base, and it is up to you to extract the desired information.

Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft Copilot is a digital assistant, based on artificial intelligence (AI), or large language models (LLMs), that understands human language and can provide answers to questions: give explanations, write texts, generate images, etc. It can be used independently, within a web browser, and is also integrated into applications and services that are part of the Microsoft 365 package, such as: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook…

Microsoft Loop

Loop is  a web application within  the Microsoft 365 ecosystem designed to share ideas and collaborate on projects. For a long time, Word or Excel have provided the ability for multiple users to work on one document at the same time. Loop gives additional flexibility, such as sharing and collaboration from different applications. In this way, as soon as an idea is born, it can be written down, shared, commented on…

Microsoft Planner

Planner is a service for managing simple projects. It comes as part  of an Microsoft 365 subscription, and is reminiscent of tools like Jira or Trello. It is used to assign and track tasks within a team using the Kanban board interface, and is ideal for teams that manage task-based agile projects, where they can attach files, add comments, track progress through charts, etc.