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This blog post details all the features and annoucements from the Microsoft Business Applications Summit where all the new Power BI Details were revealed

We had to wait four years but here they are: Power BI shared datasets are here. This makes it a good time to revisit the remaining Power BI sharing limitations, which I listed in my previous blog on t…

Our next publich traning session will be in Vancouver this July. This 3-day Self Service BI Boot Camp will change your company's reporting game forever!

Template app general availability announcement and latest features

Level: Intermediate There was an announcement made a few weeks ago by Microsoft that nearly slipped under my radar. I don’t always read the more technical announcements because I don’t…

Today, we’re announcing general availability (GA) for cognitive services, Azure ML and the AI workload in Power BI Premium. The AI workload will now be enabled by default for all P-nodes, as well as nodes A3/EM3 and above, allowing the users of those capacities to use cognitive services in dataflows right away. A new workload setting is added to separately enable Automated ML, which remains in public preview.

Based on the technology used in SQL Server Reporting Services, Paginated Reports brings a new set of enterprise reporting capabilities to the Power BI service. It enables developers and BI professionals to create and distribute highly formatted, pixel-perfect reports right alongside their interactive Power BI content, becoming the first cloud BI solution that combines the power of self-service BI with the needs and capabilities of traditional Enterprise BI scenarios.

This blog post details how to embed a word document into the new app experience in Power BI and enable people to view data online

This post is to make you aware that there are some serious downsides when you choose to create reports in the Power BI Service rather than Power BI Desktop. If you agree with me on this one, please vote for this idea here on the Power BI Ideas site . The Short Version of the Story I always recom

“Who, or what, is Paginated Report Bear?” I hear you ask. Well, he’s the breakout social media star of 2019, a furry YouTube sensation whose incisive interviews of members of the Power BI developme…

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As a Power BI admin, particularly when you’re responsible for a large deployment with many teams using the Power BI service in different ways, you want to put yourself in a position to easily…

Last week Microsoft held its annual Microsoft Business Applications Summit (MBAS) event in Atlanta. This two-day technical conference covers the whole Business Applications platform – includi…

The Microsoft Busines Application Summit (MBAS) for 2019 was quite the event. There was so much great content. Check out our highlights from this year.

The Microsoft Business Application Summit is behind us but that doesn’t mean there’s a lot of content we can share with the community. We recorded almost every session on site, and we made th…

Power BI is constantly evolving – there’s a new version of Power BI Desktop every month, and the Power BI service is updated every week. Many of the new capabilities in Power BI represent gradual refi…

Power BI is constantly evolving - there's a new version of Power BI Desktop every month, and the Power BI service is updated every week. Many of the new capabilities in Power BI represent gradual refi…

Thanks for watching this week’s Power BI news roundup! Last weeks roundup: https://guyinacu.be/roundup142 Tech Video: https://guyinacu.be/paginatedtips Sources Introducing Calculation Groups (@marcorus) Customer Stories sessions from MBAS 2019 (@SQLAllFather) Updated(!) Guide To Selecting Between Azure Analysis Services And Power BI Premium (@DaveRuijter) Introduction to Charticulator: Create Custom Visual – Part 1 (@leila_etaati) Announcing Bring Your Own …

If you use dataflows with Power BI Premium, you probably use linked and computed entities. There’s an overview post here, and an example of how to use these tools for data profiling here, but…

We are excited to announce new improvements to Power BI dataflows releasing this month including an enhanced compute engine to drastically improve data refresh times and a new set of dataflow…

This blog post explains how to configure and use the new certified datasets feature that is available in Power BI to enable better use of datasets in Power BI

The Microsoft Power Platform consists of three products: Power BI, PowerApps, and Microsoft Flow. I find customers are confused on the use cases of these products and how they compare to other prod…

Imagine you are the owner of a local restaurant and you’ve had modest success with a marketing coupon campaign in the past. You sent out some coupons through the local mail and ended up noticing an uptick in business over the next few weeks. Now you’re wondering which customers you should target nex...

We’re excited to announce we’ve started to roll-out the Viewer role for the new workspace experience, perfect for users who need to view content within workspaces without the ability to …

This blog post details how to connect to Power BI Premium datasets using Excel. This allows users to directly connect to the Power BI Premium dataset.

With Power BI aggregations, organizations can perform petabyte-scale analytics with instant response times, exploring and analyzing trillions of rows of data and interactively extracting insights on the fly. Aggregations can dramatically reduce the cost of unlocking large datasets for decision making.

When you build a Power BI dataflow, lineage is built in. It's not an added feature - it's a fundamental aspect of how dataflows work. Instead of having an ETL process that performs the data movement a…

It seems like everyone knows about how Power Query in Power BI Desktop lets you use web pages as data sources, and lets you build queries by entering values from the web page. This is probably because…

This month the Power BI dataflows team announced an exciting new capability available in preview for dataflows in workspaces backed by Power BI Premium dedicated capacity[1]. This compute engine build…

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