The #PowerBI July on premises gateway release has one more beautiful feature added that i didn't mention in my last update, the ability to DISTRIBUTE requests across your gateway cluster. Previously only 1 node was used for requests and other was only for HA. pic.twitter.com/txoCvogtkF— Steve Howard (@AngryAnalytics) August 3, 2018

Power BI is an extremely user friendly and flexible analytics, reporting, and dashboarding tool. In the past two years, I’ve witnessed the massive adoption of Power BI by my clients and in the marketplace, often replacing more expensive tools due to its ease of use and low barrier to entry.

Dataflows, previously called Common Data Service for Analytics as well as Datapools, will be in preview soon and I wanted to explain in this blog what it is and how it can help you get value out of…

Since the Business Applications Summit there has been a whole host of updates to Power BI, so please find all the details below. NOTE: This is once again a longer read with just so many updates tha…

This blog post covers the latest updates for Power BI Developers community- Power BI Embedded and Custom Visuals.

The Microsoft Business Applications Summit was last week and, in conjunction with this event, the October 2018 Release Notes were published. Additionally, an updated version (v 2.0) of the Planning…

During the keynote of the 2018 Microsoft Business Applications Summit, the new version of the Business Applications Release Notes has been publicly shared. After the first appearance of a public roadm…

There are two really great features just added to Power BI that I wanted to blog about: Composite models and Dual storage mode. This is part of the July release for Power BI Desktop and it is in p…

Authenticate a client app

In the part 1, you learned how to register an application to be able to interact with Power BI service and Azure environment. In the part 2, you learned how the authentication process works and how yo…

In the part 1, you learned how to register an application to be able to interact with Power BI service and Azure environment. In this part, I’m going to explain what is the process involved after that…

Power BI Embedded, which I have written about it previously, brings the power of Power BI into your application. Power BI Embedded Recently had major changes. If you remember from my previous post, th…

Summary : I am working on embedding Power BI reports in a ISV application and when i try to call api endpoint to get embedding details of the report it responds with 400 Bad Request . I am directly

How to use Fiddler or Postman to issue HTTP requests and REST API calls to Azure Search.

When working with REST APIs, Postman ( is a popular tool that needs no further introductions. This week, I’ve been pretty busy working on the upcoming Inside OMS V2 book, and I’m currently focusing…

In this blog I set out an architecture for a data analytics pipeline that starts with an SQL Server database and ends with a Power BI dashboard. The pipeline can be fully automated so that updates to the data in the core SQL Server DB flow through the pipeline to the dashboard without human intervention...

Power-BI-ALM-Toolkit - Agile deployment of Power BI artifacts across workspaces and environments

Power BI Home Region: what is it? We look at the home region and look at understanding how it can affect your organization. The Power BI Home region will effect Power BI Premium and could affect your Azure data regions as well. This becomes important when you start looking at Power BI Premium Multi-Geo support […]

I was fortunate to attend my first ever Business Applications Summit in Seattle. I had the pleasure of sharing an Airbnb with Matt Allington, Phil Seamark and Miguel Escobar, it was great to spend …

Currently flying home from a great Microsoft Business Applications Summit in Seattle I wanted to use that time in the plane to write about an interesting topic – the Microsoft Power Platform. Maybe…

Data Integration Platform

Power BI amplifies your insights and the value of your data. With Power BI documentation, you get expert information and answers to address your needs, regardless of how you use Power BI.

Today, we’re pleased to announce the public preview of Power BI Premium Multi-Geo, a new feature that helps multinational organizations address their data residency requirements. Increasingly…

Power BI enables organizations to adopt a data-driven culture where every person can get value from data. Front and center are business users creating reports and dashboards, sharing insights, making…

SharePoint is an important part of how many organizations organize and distribute BI content to users. In recognition of how important this approach is, we’ve invested in modernizing and creating…

Who’s going to Microsoft Business Applications Summit? Be sure to check out one of our featured sessions, “Power BI and the Future for Modern and Enterprise BI.” In this all-up Power BI session we’ll show you Power BI’s vision for unifying modern and enterprise BI and expanding self-service BI for b...

Join Charles Sterling and Ted Pattison as they walk through what is new and coming for Power BI Embedded in July 2018. If you are not familiar with Power BI Embedded for application developers, you ca…