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Microsoft Build is all about sharing news and collaborating to build excitement about Microsoft products. This year we’re excited to announce new features in Microsoft Power Platform for Power Apps that will accelerate innovation through collaboration and learning along with so much more!

It has been amazing to see how pipelines in Power Platform have been used over the past few months since the general availability (GA) release in March, saving companies like Lumen time and providing more accessibility to ALM. We are excited to announce that new features are now available in Pipelines! In this blog post, we’ll be going through the latest updates to the Pipelines experience and guiding you through the steps to making your deployments even more seamless than before.

A Power Apps modal dialog menu appears on top of the screen and requires the user to interact with it before moving to the next task.

This post addresses common scenarios I have encountered where clients require data to be masked in certain ways in reporting. Most often this is to prevent exposing a competitors’ data when s…

The Lakehouse is the evolution of the earlier cloud data platform in many pieces that came with “some assembly required”. All of the components are modern, mature and capable but compli…

Microsoft Fabric (#MicrosoftFabric), the new Unified Analytics platform, was announced this morning, literally moments before the Build Conference. Satya made the official announcement in the keyno…

There’s nothing new in this blog post except for joy. Every Microsoft data platform blogger[1] has been posting about Microsoft Fabric, including how the OneLake SaaS data lake stores data in…

A very quick blog on how to import Delta Table to PowerBI Desktop, probably your first question is why ? doesn’t the new Direct Lake solve that ? Direct lake assumes the compute to be running…

Another blog post based on recent client experiences. Last week, I visited a client where we had extensive discussions on data model optimization. As you might know, data modeling in Power BI is on…

In Part 1 we added a Power BI to a Power Platform Solution. In Part 2 we will create a dashboard and add it to the model driven app.

Power BI introduced dynamic format strings in May 2023. In this article, we briefly introduce this functionality and then dive into a few technical details

I can’t be more excited! After the first time I heard about Microsoft Fabric, it directly took my interest. Especially as I see this as a nice bridge in which the worlds of Power BI and Data …

Today, we have some exciting news to share with you – the introduction of a new Power BI admin API that allows you to conveniently access all tenant settings in a single call.

Blogging about Power BI, Power Platform and other things I find interesting.

With the release of Microsoft Fabric, ISVs and application developers using Power BI embedded can now leverage new capabilities of Microsoft Fabric, all while maintaining their Power BI embedded solutions and using the Power BI REST APIs. In this post, we’ll discuss the value of Microsoft Fabric for embedded solutions and give you all the details on how to get started with Microsoft Fabric and Power BI embedded.

Data analysis and visualization are key components of business intelligence, and Power BI stands as a leading platform in this domain. A pivotal part of working with Power BI involves dealing with …

An analysis of three elements that influence data visualization  and that render the underlying data to be more subjective than objective.

Learn all about the licensing structure at Microsoft Fabric, how it works, samples of it, and how it related to Power BI.

At Power BI Tips, we’re committed to providing you with the best tools and resources to enhance your report building experience. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce a range of exciting new features to the [...]

Review a reference table and some quick scenarios to help in choosing whether to use a data warehouse or a lakehouse for your data in Fabric.

Review a reference table and some quick scenarios to help in choosing whether to use copy activity, dataflow, or Spark to work with your data in Fabric.

Power BI introduced dynamic format strings in May 2023. In this article, we briefly introduce this functionality and then dive into a few technical details

The LINESTX DAX function simplifies the calculation of linear regressions. This article explains the correct way to manage its results efficiently. LINEST a

On Friday June 9th, Data Ceili – Ireland’s biggest Microsoft data platform event  – returns to Trinity College in Dublin! Update 28 May 2023: Adding one more CAT session to the li…

In this blog article, we will explore four end-to-end scenarios that are typical paths our customers take to extract value and insights from their data using Microsoft Fabric. In these scenarios, we will show you how Fabric seamlessly addresses common architectural scenarios with a single service that encompasses data ingestion, transformation, storage, and exposure through reports or SQL endpoints.