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Get an overview of what Power BI Datamarts are, why they’re important, and some real-world use cases in this engaging blog.

We get a lot of questions about Power BI dataflows and when to use them. Patrick explores a use case that screams for using dataflows! Are you taking this approach?

Learn about what is Power BI Service or website and why do you need that, what features and components comes with it.

DataOps Principle #16 - Monitor Quality and Performance

Welcome to the October 2022 update. This month’s update is packed with exciting updates to features like Power BI metrics, Modeling, Deployment pipelines, and more. Please read on for all the details, and feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments below the post. We would love to hear from you!

In this article, we explore Power BI App Audiences and why they are such a powerful feature for managing and using content in Power BI Apps.

In this blog, we’ll cover the importance of gathering event activity data, and how to utilize the REST APIs effectively to do so.

At some point this weekend, the Microsoft Power BI folks turned on the drillthrough feature in the Power BI service. This is the same drillthrough feature that demonstrated during day 1 of the Micr…

(Ideally, I would like to do this as a Power BI custom data connector. I have tried, for some reason, my Visual Studio has been crashing when I click on…

I’m pleased to announce that I’ve published my first Power BI custom data connector on GitHub here: Basically, it acts as a wrapper for the Microsoft Cognitive Services Text Analytics API and …

Have you ever wanted to compare changes in your data without having to create duplicate copies, as well as make it really simple and easy for users to do some self-service comparisons? In this exam…

The best method to implement row-level security in a published Power BI model or SSAS Tabular model consumed from the Power BI service will depend to some degree on your data structure and requirem…

Today, we’re excited to release a preview of the next version of Power BI Report Server. This preview release contains some exciting new self-service BI capabilities, including support for data sources other than SQL Server Analysis Services and viewing and interacting with Excel Workbooks.

This article explains how to correctly measure the dictionary size of a column in a model created in Power BI, Power Pivot, or Analysis Services Tabular. W

A data-driven organization quickly addresses changes in business, & dashboards published to the Power BI service can be configured to send alerts to users.

Yesterday there was a webinar on how Power Query is going to be used as the way to load data into the Microsoft Common Data Service. You can watch it online here (if you’re in a hurry, skip to 24 m…

Today, I am excited to announce the availability of usage metrics in the Power BI service for dashboard and report authors. This feature gives you one-click access to key usage metrics for your dashboards and reports, allowing you to pinpoint how your end users are interacting with your content. We hope these metrics can help you justify your investments and prioritize your efforts on the most impactful, widely used content.

It has been a busy week with the start of another month leading into June, so here are the updates. I am pretty confident that with the Microsoft Data Insights Summit happening Monday & Tuesday…

Last week Power BI team had announced a new feature in the Power BI service – Usage Metrics of Reports and Dashboards. Read more here. While many additional great features were announced here (and each deserves a dedicated focus), I wanted to share today why and how you can take advantage of the Power BI Usage Metrics. Keep …

A blog from the SQL Server Reporting Services product team at Microsoft.

I'm a big fan of reusing Power BI datasets whenever possible to minimize redundant datasets floating around the organization. It's less maintenance, less chance of calculation differences, and less data refreshes to schedule. And, this technique is a way to separate who handles report creati

Many of you may know of our wonderful business partners over at PowerON. Among the services and software they offer is a powerful tool called Power Update

A few months ago we released a Preview of the Amazon Redshift connector in Power BI Desktop. This new connector allows users to easily build reports based on their Redshift data, either by importing the data into Power BI Desktop or by using DirectQuery mode. Today we are very excited to announce support for Redshift-based reports in the Power BI Service, allowing users to publish their reports to unlock seamless consumption of reports & dashboards based on Redshift data. In this blog post, we will show you step-by-step how to accomplish this task.

A blog from the SQL Server Reporting Services product team at Microsoft.

New capacity-based Power BI offering helps organizations expand access to insights. Power BI Premium builds on the existing Power BI portfolio with a capacity-based licensing model that increases flexibility for how users access, share and distribute content. The new offering also delivers additional scalability and performance to the Power BI service.

Using the “demo” database, which I described in Part 1 of this set of blog entries, I have created a number of sample reports using Power BI Desktop for various areas of the Financial Services Division of a fictitious company, ABC Automotive Ltd. The “demo” database, together with other data, were imported into Power BI Desktop and, where … Continue reading "Power BI – ABC Automotive Ltd. (Part 2 – Financial Services Reports)"

There has been a variety of updates and blog posts in the past week, so here are my BI updates. Power BI – Service March Update There were quite a few service updates for March within the Power BI …

In today’s post, I am going to be associative a bit, and explore the latest Power BI Desktop along several topics that I’ve wanted to share. We will cover the best features of Power BI Desktop April update: Power BI Service Live Connection and Add Column by Example (also known as Column From Examples in the UI). Finally, …

Today, I am excited to announce the view related content feature in Power BI service. Now, users will be able to easily jump between related dashboards, reports and datasets.

There has been a whole host of updates to Power BI in the past week which is great to see, so I hope that you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed putting it all together. Power BI – March Deskt…