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Thank you for installing the app and sharing your valuable feedback. We have since been working to make improvements in the app and I am excited to share that we…

The Power BI service has transformed the way businesses leverage data to solve problems, share insights, and make informed decisions. Our users often track multiple dashboards and reports to stay on…

In the three years since its initial release, Power BI has become widely-adopted by corporations and other organizations as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application. The Power BI Service provides licensed users with the ability to access and interact with Power BI reports and dashboards through th...

Dynamic Row Level Security is easy with Active Directory Security Groups I am really excited to show you in this blog post how to use Active Directory (AD) Security groups to make Dynamic Row Level Se…

I have decided to rebrand or change the name of my weekly round up from BI RoundUp to Power BI RoundUp, because it is almost always about Power BI. And with the new direction from Microsoft this ma…

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

Hi , See my solution attached, page 3 https://1drv.ms/u/s!As5oZCclkGkWgSUKbcIgvNE_f5Qd I have created a new column [Type] in 'Selected Throughput' and created a relationship with [Test Type] in 'Actual Data' (I have noticed one row says 1200 instead of 1000 as in your post, beware of that) I...

Join Charles Sterling and Josh Caplan as they answer questions from Power BI Customers on managing premium capacities. When: 10/18/18 Time: 12:00 PM PST watch?v=YLhvGQ7C2m0

Calendar tables are an absolute requirement for time-intelligence calculations in Power BI. In this week's webinar Power BI MVP Tristan Malherbe will deliver a webinar on how to build a proper calendar table using Power Query and M language.

In this video, Adam Saxton sits down with Josh Caplan to discuss how to monitor and manage Power BI Premium capacity. This includes looking at the Power BI Capacity Metrics App that has a dashboard and report for your capacity metrics. They also discuss other considerations when using dedicated capacity. This discussion also applies to […]

In Part 1 of this blog series I introduced the fundamental concepts of Power BI embedding and explained the difference between first-part embedding (the user-owns-data model) and third-party embedding (app-owns-data model). In this blog we will begin by examining Power BI Premium capacities and, aft...

In this video, Patrick introduces the Mashup Engine Query Monitor for Power BI Refresh. This is the MEQM! A report that can be useful to see SQL Server queries that Power BI issues during refresh. MEQM Files – https://github.com/guyinacube/demo-files/tree/master/video%20demos/MEQM

For me, a good data warehouse enables business pros to create reports without needing to think too much about the data model. Another benefit I see is the ability to deliver operational reports from transactional databases (ERP, CRM, financial systems). 5 Suggestions for aligning a data warehouse with Power BI.

Custom visuals bring great value to your organization. By using tailor-made visuals, enterprises can tell their own story and visualize data in the best way! In some organizations custom visuals are even more important – they might be necessary to convey specific data or insights unique to the organization, they may have special data requirements, or they may highlight private business methods. Such organizations need to develop their own custom visuals, using the Power BI opensource custom visuals framework. Or find a consultancy service offered by one of our partners. Where organization...

Welcome to another week of the weekly Power BI RoundUp, I hope you enjoy catching up on the latest content below. Power BI – Power BI Preview Features in Action In this blog post by Chuck (Charles)…

It is very difficult for an organisation to decide whether to buy Power BI Premium or to stick with Power BI Pro. Power BI Premium represents a big financial commitment, but how do you know whether…

On October 25th, 1997, I attended a football (American) game in Lawrence, Kansas between the number 1 ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers and the Kansas Jayhawks. It was a cold and rainy night which, in addit…

Power BI MVP and crowd Favorite Avi Singh will be presenting: Building Impactful Financial Dashboards Using Microsoft Power BI Webinar 10/16

I recently was troubleshooting a performance issue for a customer where their LiveConnection was slow when connecting to an On-Premise SSAS Tabular server via the On-Premise Data Gateway. One of th…

Possibly the biggest scalability feature (literally) in the history of Microsoft BI is actually here! The Power BI Desktop feature summary announced aggregations built on composite models is now suppo…

Power BI Report Server was first launched in June 2017 as our on-premises server product, giving customers the ability to adopt Power BI today while preserving their flexibility to move to the Power B…

Are you using Power BI incremental refresh? Have you had it not work even though you set everything up? In this video, Patrick looks at a scenario where Power BI incremental refresh was broken. He then looks at a way to get Power BI incremental refresh working properly.