Marc Beacom

Marc Beacom – MCTS (BI, Dev), Principal Architect and Owner at DawaBI, has over 15 years of technical and business experience. DawaBI focuses on Making Data-Driven Decisions Possible by delivering user friendly and scalable data warehouse and business intelligence solutions. Marc is an active volunteer within the community and currently is co-organizer of the Colorado GiveCamp, served a year as a PASS Regional Mentor and served five years on the leadership board for the Denver and Colorado Springs SQL Server User Groups.

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Setting Up a Productive Work Environment – #TAPtips

by Marc Beacom

Marc Beacom

Having a productive work environment for you and your team is important to facilitate tasks being accomplished as well as...

2017-02-03 (first published: 2017-01-25)

1,828 reads

Getting Started with Power BI: Setup (Part 1 of 3)

by Marc Beacom

Marc Beacom

This is part 1 of the Getting Started with Power BI series. Power BI is a powerful reporting and dashboarding...

2017-02-02

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Hiring Productive Employees – #TAPtips

by Marc Beacom

Marc Beacom

Starting a business is easy. Have an idea, some skills, a customer or two, and you are in business. However,...

2017-01-31

628 reads

A New Year, A New Company and A New DenverSQL Chapter

by Marc Beacom

Marc Beacom

2016 was a great year, both personally and professionally. Personally, our family is well and the kids are growing into...

2017-01-30

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Team Collaboration with Microsoft OneNote – #TAPtips

by Marc Beacom

Marc Beacom

I was an early adopter of Microsoft’s OneNote and started using it in February of 2004 and have never stopped....

2017-01-17

388 reads

Increased Productivity with the Pomodoro Technique – TAPtips

by Marc Beacom

Marc Beacom

Today's TAPtips is about Increased Productivity with the Pomodoro Technique. Have you tried the Pomodoro Technique? If so, what were...

2017-01-10

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Launching #TAPtips – Valuable Tips from Decades of Practice

by Marc Beacom

Marc Beacom

Launching #TAPtips Blog Posts While forming Datalere, Carlos and I wanted to continue with our contributions to the Denver, Colorado...

2017-01-03

188 reads

DawaBI Merges with Quanta Intelligence to Broaden and Deepen our Service Offering

by Marc Beacom

Marc Beacom

We’ve been working on this for a while now and I’m excited to announce the merger of Quanta Intelligence and...

2016-08-18

582 reads

PASS SQL Saturday Events: December 2014

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Marc Beacom

DateEventDecember 6 SQLSaturday #359 – Istanbul 2014December 6 SQLSaturday #351 – Lima 2014December 6 SQLSaturday #347 – Washington DC 2014December 13 SQLSaturday #356...

2014-11-15

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5 things to know about Databricks

by Marc Beacom

Marc Beacom

Databricks is now available in both AWS and Azure so it’s getting a lot of buzz! Let’s discuss 5 things you should know about Databricks before diving in. 1. ...

2014-11-03

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Marc Beacom

Setting Up a Productive Work Environment – #TAPtips

Getting Started with Power BI: Setup (Part 1 of 3)

Hiring Productive Employees – #TAPtips

A New Year, A New Company and A New DenverSQL Chapter

Team Collaboration with Microsoft OneNote – #TAPtips

Increased Productivity with the Pomodoro Technique – TAPtips

Launching #TAPtips – Valuable Tips from Decades of Practice

DawaBI Merges with Quanta Intelligence to Broaden and Deepen our Service Offering

PASS SQL Saturday Events: December 2014

5 things to know about Databricks

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Tables with a SPARSE Column and Consumption