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Recently, I was presenting my session about AI Capabilities for Power BI to make AI Accessible for Everyone for the Virtual Power BI Days Hamburg. A great event organized by Kathrin Borchert. Part …

One request that comes up a lot is to be able to provide translations for the tables and columns of your model (especially here in Europe). Up until now this...

If you have been using dataflows, and you have the return value of a query as something which is not in the form of a table, such as a record, list, or value. then you have seen that the dataflow automatically converts them all to tables. There is an explanation about it, and a method…

We’re proud to introduce PowerBI Portal, our first product for 2020, and a game-changer for organizations with large report-sharing needs.

In Power BI, you can now use service principals to automate common tasks such as deploying models, performing a data refresh, and applying model changes. Permissions are assigned to service principals through workspace membership, much like regular user accounts.

If you’re working with large amounts of data in Power BI you may find that you have problems because: Your pbix file is very large You spend a long time waiting for refreshes to finish in Pow…

Today, we wanted to announce our roadmap for workspace upgrade so you can plan ahead.  We also announce in this post our classic workspace deprecation plans. If you’re a Power BI admin or workspace admin, this is a must read.

We are happy to announce the public preview release of Power BI Deployment Pipelines, a new and improved way for BI teams to manage content lifecycle within Power BI Premium.

We are excited to announce Direct Query support (Preview) for Power BI dataflows.  You can now connect directly to a dataflow without first requiring to import the data into a dataset. 

Let’s say you have a Power BI file connected to an Analysis Services machine. Then you want to change the data source to PowerBI.com using [...]

June release of gateway

We’re thrilled to introduce a new look for getting apps! As of today, getting an app from your organization or from the AppSource marketplace has never been easier!

There is now a way to incrementally refresh any Power BI data source using a combination of a SQL Server database and a function.

Learn about datasets and dataflows from Reza Rad from Radacad.com. This is the monthly Power BI user groups for Milwaukee Wisconsin.

well, you must be wondering what is this all about. Why would someone want to create a Power BI Dataflow programmatically when you can do it very easily using Power BI service? But there are scenar…

As Power BI becomes a key tool for decision makers, more and more content is being created and published for them. Being able to easily find that content, to navigate between related items, and to share relevant content with colleagues has become critical to making these users productive when using Power BI and the Power BI Mobile apps. In the last few months the team has being working on improving navigation in the Power BI mobile apps to make it easier for our users to understand their content hierarchy and to navigate between items quickly. We’ve also made it easier to share relevant content with colleagues.

It’s time to recap all the features and announcements we made for the Power BI service and mobile for the months of May and June.

With XMLA endpoints available in Power BI Premium and the recent release of .NET Core versions of the Analysis Services client libraries (ADOMD.NET and AMO) in public preview, you can start building modern cross-platform Power BI solutions across Windows, Linux, and macOS, and cloud-oriented environments.

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These days more and more data lives behind an API, rather than in a more traditional data source like databases or files. These APIs are often designed and optimized for small, chatty[1] interactio…

We’re pleased to announce two new actions are available for the Power BI connector in Power Automate. Now, you may easily leverage the Power BI export API for either Power BI reports or paginated reports in your workflows in Power Automate.

Previously, AutoML models could only be applied to entities in the same dataflow. With this new capability, users don’t need to be an owner of the dataflow that has the model.  They can use models created by others in the same workspace.

The ‘new look’ of the Power BI service is evolving again based on your feedback during public preview…

All the improvements of the ‘new look’, from navigation updates to the simplified action bar for reports and dashboards, begins rolling out next week and will be generally available to all tenants and users by early November. Thank you for your feedback during public preview as we made incremental updates to modernize and simplify the Power BI service.