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We are thrilled to announce that Forrester has recognized Microsoft as a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise BI Platforms (Vendor-Managed), Q3 2019 tied for the highest score in strateg…

A centralized product launch resource enables clear communication between you, your team, and your customers.

Although Data Quality and Data Governance are often used interchangeably, they are very different, both in theory and practice. While Data Quality Management at an enterprise happens both at the front (incoming data pipelines) and back ends (databases, servers), the whole process is defined, structured, and implemented through a well-designed framework.

My business has had a massive data overhaul in the last 18 months, with all of it being supported by Power BI with SQL server backend. I wanted to detail here my experience with going from literally nothing, to full use of Power BI, what problems we encountered, and how PBI and the Community helped ...

The purpose of this article is to outline a set of guidelines and recommended practices for managing Microsoft Power BI projects. This guide is primarily focused on the work performed by the IT-ma…

The reaction to this recent post on lineage and Power BI dataflows highlighted how important lineage is for Power BI[1]. Although (as this post shows) there are lineage user experiences in place fo…

We often focus on deep analysis and insights generated by machine learning when we talk about Power BI these days because it’s super cool and very fancy. But I think it’s important to r…

In the late 1300s and early 1400s, Fiore de'i Liberi was a knight, a diplomat, and a fencing master. He also wrote one of the most comprehensive treatises on medieval combat, his Flower of Battle, of …

JUS - The Journal of Usability Studies

A lot of times people ask me why Power BI is the best BI platform in the world (which by the way it is :)) and I always tell them that if you evaluate by the feature: VisualizationData transformati…

Office365 family provides a lot of services for you and your organization. In recent weeks I was playing \ working with some of them like Power BI and MS Flow. I wrote an article about sharepoint.stackexchange analysis with Power BI. Power BI is a gr... [Click to read more]

Updated Diagram An updated version of the Power BI End-to-End diagram is now available! Head on over to the Diagrams page where the latest version will always be. Change Log There’s also a new change log which should be particularly helpful for those of you who utilize this diagram in your P

I wrote about (and updated) this topic previously , but this is so important that it warrants revisiting. So let's have a quick chat about what privileges a Power BI administrator has with respect to accessing data throughout the Power BI tenant. All metadata throughout the tenant is available

Last month[1] at the Microsoft Business Applications Summit (MBAS), Power BI program managers David Magar and Swati Gupta showed off a new load assessment tool for Power BI Premium capacity workloa…

The PowerApps Report Survey allows a simple, unobstructed feedback loop. This is critical to end user adoption and usability of your reporting environment.

This blog post details how to use the Power BI features to see when there are support issues and how to get notified when it occurs

Team file sharing and version control may be managed through Power BI workspace integration with OneDrive and SharePoint team sites. In this post, I will show you how to get started and setup a new…

Deploying Power BI in a large enterprise is a complex task, and one that requires a lot of thought and planning. The purpose of this presentation is to help y…

As I continue to explore and develop best practices for managing serious business-scale Power BI solutions, I’m having conversations with recognized community leaders. Last month I chatted w…

Over a year ago, I wrote a blog about Multiple tier architecture and continuous delivery with Power BI, mainly an overview of the setup and manually creating development and production content. Th…

I meet a lot of customers in my job, either through the Microsoft field or at conferences and many times we hear the same: “We love Power BI and we...

Workarounds…..workarounds…..workarounds. We all build workarounds as necessary until more enterprise-ready functionality is made available. This is true for Power BI Usage metrics across workspaces. We have usage models for each individual workspace but there are several issues with them. you have to copy the model in order to edit it and make it useful you […]

You may have seen things that make you say “that’s Power BI AF” but none of them have come close to this. It’s literally the Power BI AF[1]. That’s right – this …

This blog serves as the beginning of a Power BI Governance series that will outline our observations and recommendations for implementing governance.

The new Power BI Activity Log makes it much easier for Power BI administrators to access audit log data to monitor and analyze activities occurring within the tenant they support. This blog post de…

tl;dr – to kick of 2020 we’re starting a new BI Polar video series focusing on building a data culture, and the first video introduces the series. You should watch it and share it. Succ…

Continuing on our series on data culture, we’re examining the importance of having an executive sponsor. This is one of the least exciting success factors for implementing Power BI and gettin…

When I shared on Twitter the most recent installment in the BI Polar “data culture” series, BI developer Chuy Varela replied to agree with some key points from the video on executive sp…

Data is governed when it is: Trustworthy | Secured | Managed & Audited | Documented & Understood.

BlueGranite has created a solution leveraging the Office 365 Management APIs to extract and store all available Power BI audit data.