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During this new Microsoft Ignite format, with 48 hours of hours of digital sessions and interactions where thousands of IT professionals will come together, we have several exciting innovations to announce that will help customers drive clarity when they need it most.

The Power BI team at Microsoft publishes a “release plan,” which is essentially the public product roadmap. Anyone can use it to understand what new capabilities and improvements are planned, and …

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One of the great news in Microsoft Ignite 2020 is the announcement of a new licensing plan for Microsoft Power BI, called Premium Per User, or Premium Gen2. In this article, I'll explain what that is, and how this can be helpful for Power BI users. Power BI Licensing To understand the Premium Per User…

At Microsoft Ignite, there were two really exciting announcements when it comes to enterprise features for Power BI. Both directly took my attention, as well as for many others. Obviously, the firs…

Power BI lets business users solve more and more problems without requiring deep BI and data expertise. This is what self-service business intelligence is all about, as we saw when we looked at a b…

In an ideal world, everyone knows where to find the resources and tools they need to be successful. We don’t live in that world. I’m not even sure we can see that world from here. But i…

Last week’s post on migrating to Power BI was intended to be a stand-alone post, but this excellent comment from Matthew Choo via LinkedIn made me realize I had more to say. I could not agree…

The last post and video in this series looked at the broad topic of training. This post looks at as specific aspect of this topic: letting people know what is possible, and sparking their imaginati…

Moving important business data into a data model for analytic reporting can often be a two-edge sword. Data retrieval is fast and can support all kinds of analytic trending and comparisons. But, da…

Power BI CoE is an important concept if it is understood that Power BI implementation does not end when the platform is open and available to your organisation.Implementation starts at this …

The date you have long waited for has finally arrived!  The public preview of Power BI Premium per user has been enabled in all public tenants that requested priority access, and will be rolling out to all tenants worldwide throughout the month of November.  Now, Power BI users have access to all the Power BI Premium capabilities, on a per user basis, for the entire trial period for free. 

We are almost ready to launch the public preview of the new Power BI Premium per user SKU in early to mid-November.  We are excited to give users access to these capabilities as soon as possible, while at the same time ensuring that we are prioritizing the users/tenants that are most interested in previewing these capabilities. 

We hare happy to share details about availability of enhanced Power BI premium using the next generation technology from Power BI

Announcing a new capability that enables template app publishers to automate the configuration of a template app installation for their customers!

Today, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Synapse Analytics and the preview of Azure Purview, a unified data governance service. Azure Synapse Analytics is a limitless analytics service that brings together data integration, enterprise data warehousing, and big data analytics.

Power BI has partnered with the newly released Azure Purview to provide enhanced governance and cataloging capabilities for our customers. The Azure Purview/Power BI integration makes it possible for you to discover and govern all your hybrid data, and thereby gain a more complete understanding of your data.

Data Governance – the knowledge, management and insights about and over your data estate is a very important topic. In the past years the number of data stores, systems and data interfaces gr…

Today’s announcements give a roadmap update for workspace upgrade, content pack deprecation, and announce new tools for Power BI Admins to upgrading classic workspaces through the admin portal. Announcements: Workspace upgrade has reached general availability. We’ve started to roll-out tools for Power BI admins to upgrade classic workspaces. We’re providing a roadmap update below including dates for removing the ability to create, update, and use content packs in classic workspaces.

These are the seventeen reasons why IT will not let me send my 250MB Excel file that we use to run the business via email At Ricoh Digital Services (AKA the day job) we do a lot of Data & Analy…

With the introduction of the Power BI Premium per User licensing, it can be observed that most small to medium organizations have become excited about it more than anyone. The main reason for this …

After the announcement of the Azure Purview preview, the first videos published (Microsoft Mechanics and Simon Whiteley), my first Purview overview blog post it is now time to start with Azure Purv…

We are excited to announce General Availability (GA) for Power BI Premium support for large models, along with additional new features, such as User interface enhancements, Multi-Geo support, and Bring your own encryption keys (BYOK).

PPU licensing brings all the sharing and collaborating of a Power BI Pro license but adds additional features, previously only available when purchasing Premium Capacity.

Maybe you’ve heard of Azure Purview, the new Azure data governance service, that was released into public preview in the beginning of December 2020. Very often, when I want to test some new s…

Microsoft newly announced a piece of very exciting news that Azure Purview now supports Power BI. This is massive news from a data governance point of view. Azure Purview is the next generation of Azure Data Catalog with more metadata discovery power and the ability to use sensitivity labels. After reading the news, I immediately … Continue reading Power BI Governance, Good Practices: Setting up Azure Purview for Power BI