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Power BI Usage Metrics Report If you build it, they will come.  That movie line doesn’t just fit baseball diamonds, it is often uttered when an

We’re excited to announce a new form of Power BI embedded analytics that enables you to embed an interactive data exploration and report creation experience in your applications. With this solution, you’ll be able to provide your users a similar experience to our integrations in Dynamics 365 and SharePoint.

The SSRS RDL Migration tool is now available in SSRS 2017, SSRS 2019 and SSRS 2022! You can also migrate .pbix and .rdl files from Power BI Report Server January 2023 and Report Server September 2022.

We are announcing improvements to the Power BI audit logs that helps Power BI admins filter usage of Power BI data in Excel by workspace name and workspace id.

It’s our first on-premises data gateway release of 2023! Note that beginning on March 15, 2023, any Power BI dataflow using an on-premises data gateway version older than April 2021 might fail. To ensure your refreshes continue to work correctly, be sure to update your gateway to the latest version.

Beware of Power BI migration tools that do things that are unsupported or over-promise

The Financial Times is a source of great data-driven stories told through data visualization. The Financial Times vocabulary poster is a simple yet comprehensive tool … Read More

This blog walks through how to use Power BI Bookmarks and it's capabilities that allows users to capture a specific state of a report page.

In this post we look at how to use Smart Buttons (flic) with Power Automate and Power BI to create and control types of event-driven reporting solutions.

If the audience for your Power BI report is larger than 12 people, then statistically 1 of your audience suffers from Colour Vision Deficiency. In this post we will talk through how we experimented with colour to develop an accessible colour palette and why colour and contrast is important when it comes to data visualisation.

Learn how to automatically balance the balance sheet in Power BI. Bookkeeping doesn't contain PnL bookings yet? Planned figures don't add up?

In February 2023, Microsoft released some new Power BI themes that are more accessible than the other themes available by default. The blog post mentions the prevalence of color vision deficiency (…

ABSTRACT 📄 Deliver Advanced Visualizations with Data Stories in no-code user experience in just few clicks. How Inforiver Charts is helping Tableau, Qlik and Tibco Spotfire customers to migrate to Power BI by offering change management with coverage to missing features and functionalities.

We had a question about how to get a clock in Power BI? Is that even possible? Patrick takes advantage of the Deneb visual to make it happen! Vega Clock Sample https://vega.github.io/vega/examples/clock/ HTML Content Custom Visual Limitations https://www.html-content.com/reference/limitations Kerry Kolosko https://kerrykolosko.com/exploring-deneb-for-power-bi/

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usiness users often need to know how fresh the data is that they see on a Power BI report. This requirement can be interpreted to mean either “when was the last date & time that the sour…

In this article we look at four different ways to query data from within Tabular Editor. I also share a C# script to query or test selected columns and/or measures.

DAX creates a blank row to guarantee that results are accurate even if a regular relationship is invalid. The blank row is not created for limited relationships. This article shows the effect of not having a blank row in your tables. We dedicated a previous article to the blank row in DAX. In that ar

This article aims to show how you can speed up distinct count calculations in Power BI using the built-in user-defined aggregations feature. The user-defined aggregation feature in Power BI is designed to work with direct query models and usually gets used for calculations such as SUM, MIN, MAX etc. However, it can also work well … Continue reading Speed up Distinct Count calculations in Power BI using Aggregations

What you measure is what you get. Senior executives understand that their organization’s measurement system strongly affects the behavior of managers and employees. Executives also understand that traditional financial accounting measures like return-on-investment and earnings-per-share can give misleading signals for continuous improvement and innovation—activities today’s competitive environment demands. The traditional financial performance measures worked well […]

This blog explores the 4 steps that can genuinely help your organization build an actionable analytics strategy roadmap. Read today!

We believe DataOps is the function within an organization that controls the data journey from source to value. DataOps is critical to any growing business working with any type of data.

When you compare DataOps vs. DevOps, you’ll find there are similarities. But there is a fundamental difference between them as well.

DataOps takes a page from the Agile approach to design, implement and maintain a distributed data architecture and derive trusted business outcomes.