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I have previously written about What dataflow is and scenarios of using it. I also wrote an article about Computed Entity and the important role of that for performance and data lineage. However, a Computed entity is a premium-only feature. There are sometimes that you don't really need premium functions of Power BI, and only…

Classical incremental refresh is possible to implement for the some kind of data sources in Power BI Service with the help of dataflows.

This blog post covers the latest updates for Power BI embedded analytics and Custom Visuals.

Power BI dataflows have been available in public preview since November 2018. For almost five months, customers around the world have been kicking the tires, testing and providing feedback, and buildi…

We are excited to announce the rollout of the new Q&A dashboard experience. This new update aims to align the existing Q&A experience found inside reports and merges this into the Q&A f…

Power BI is a platform that lets you meet the diverse needs of your enterprise user base, from self-service analytics to centralized report distribution. A critical part of this flexibility is the enterprise semantic model, which provides a secure, governed, and descriptive representation of your business metrics, available as a single source of truth across … Continue reading “Azure Analysis Services now supported and what’s coming next with Paginated Reports in Power BI”

Automated ML integration with Power BI dataflows allows training and applying Binary Prediction, General Classification and Regression models. The ML models are internally represented as specially marked dataflow entities. I’ll describe how the ML related entities are defined in M language and how t...

We’re excited to announce the preview of Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) for Dataflows in Power BI. AutoML enables business analysts to build machine learning models with clicks, not code…

In this Power BI RoundUp, it goes through all the latest version with Dataflows, XMLA End Points, Updates to Paginated Reports and more

Automated ML and Cognitive Services in Power BI enables compelling new analytics scenarios – with cognitive services you can perform sentiment analysis, pull key phrases from unstructured text, tag…

Are you taking advantage of Power BI’s modeling capability? This is a terrific built in capability and many users build models as they begin to design their reports. However, as we transition Power BI into being our enterprise visualization and reporting tool, some of the legacy applications just aren’t going to go away. Many … Continue reading What Power BI XMLA Endpoints means for you →

In this tutorial you use Cognitive Services and dataflows in Power BI.

Thanks for watching this week’s Power BI news roundup! Last weeks roundup: https://guyinacu.be/roundup132a 2 Minute Tuesday: https://guyinacu.be/sortmonth Patrick’s tech video: https://guyinacu.be/geoflow Adam’s tech video: https://guyinacu.be/playgroundtoken Sources The easiest way to do small-multiples in Power BI! (@TumbleRoad) Power BI Paginated Report Builder Now Available Announcing Power BI dataflows general availability Creating Machine Learning models in Power […]

It’s time again to recap all the features and announcements we made in the month of March. Premium Multi-Geo General Availability Users outside your organization can edit and manage content with Az…

This article explains the setup instructions to work with the Service tab of Power BI Helper. Download Power BI Helper from here. Power BI Helper is a third party application, and any third party appl…

Watching an interesting video on data science trends by a Google data scientist who recommended this data set as good practice, I recorded a video that documents my process working on it from start to…

Patrick takes a quick look at Power BI Report Builder including how to get it. This report builder is optimized for the Power BI service. Patrick calls out a few reasons this is the case. Power BI Pag…

This post is a beginning to a series of articles about building analytical capabilities in Azure using data lake, Databricks and Power BI. On the surface, those technologies seem like they were specif…

The new Power BI App Workspace experience GA’d in April of 2019. Adam takes you through what the new Power BI App Workspace is all about and what is coming down the road.

In Power BI datasets that combine data from multiple data sources in a single M query, privacy levels define a how the data sources are isolated from each other. Restrictive isolation levels block data from being exchanged with other data sources, which can reduce functionality and impact performance but ensures that sensitive data does not … Continue reading “Privacy Levels for Cloud Data Sources”

With Power BI apps, you can create collections of dashboards and reports and publish these apps to your whole organization or to specific people or groups. For the second post in our series we’re c…

Power BI Live Connect reports allow the dataset to be stored in Azure Analysis Services (Azure AS) or SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) while the report itself resides in the Power BI service. Re…

This is the first in a blog series on Power BI Premium Performance and how to see how much memory is being used in Power BI Premium

This is the third article in my series about how to make Power BI Premium more affordable for small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs). In my first article I explained the problem and the logic be…

Getting “Failed to load data model” for an Azure Databricks DirectQuery connection in Power BI? Adam hit it too and walks through how to fix it in Power BI Desktop using Power Query.

If you're a Power BI Administrator, and particularly if you're responsible for administering a large and varied Power BI environment, you may consider investing time into the development of a Power BI…

Does it take a long time to get your data refreshed in your Power BI model? Should you wait for hours for the refresh to finish because you have complex transformations behind the scene? Does the long…

The full credit for this goes to the Guy in the Cube for his video where Adam talks about how to fix direct query to Azure Databricks models deployed to PowerBI.com . Unfortunately, this issue also af…

Here is another weeks Power BI RoundUp, and there is still a lot going on! Paginated Reports in Power BI Apps As you can see above paginated reports are now available when you create an app for your o…