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The PowerApps Report Survey allows a simple, unobstructed feedback loop. This is critical to end user adoption and usability of your reporting environment.

Last month[1] at the Microsoft Business Applications Summit (MBAS), Power BI program managers David Magar and Swati Gupta showed off a new load assessment tool for Power BI Premium capacity workloa…

I wrote about (and updated) this topic previously , but this is so important that it warrants revisiting. So let's have a quick chat about what privileges a Power BI administrator has with respect to accessing data throughout the Power BI tenant. All metadata throughout the tenant is available

Updated Diagram An updated version of the Power BI End-to-End diagram is now available! Head on over to the Diagrams page where the latest version will always be. Change Log There’s also a new change log which should be particularly helpful for those of you who utilize this diagram in your P

Office365 family provides a lot of services for you and your organization. In recent weeks I was playing \ working with some of them like Power BI and MS Flow. I wrote an article about sharepoint.stackexchange analysis with Power BI. Power BI is a gr... [Click to read more]

A lot of times people ask me why Power BI is the best BI platform in the world (which by the way it is :)) and I always tell them that if you evaluate by the feature: VisualizationData transformati…

JUS - The Journal of Usability Studies

In the late 1300s and early 1400s, Fiore de'i Liberi was a knight, a diplomat, and a fencing master. He also wrote one of the most comprehensive treatises on medieval combat, his Flower of Battle, of …

We often focus on deep analysis and insights generated by machine learning when we talk about Power BI these days because it’s super cool and very fancy. But I think it’s important to r…

The reaction to this recent post on lineage and Power BI dataflows highlighted how important lineage is for Power BI[1]. Although (as this post shows) there are lineage user experiences in place fo…

The purpose of this article is to outline a set of guidelines and recommended practices for managing Microsoft Power BI projects. This guide is primarily focused on the work performed by the IT-ma…

My business has had a massive data overhaul in the last 18 months, with all of it being supported by Power BI with SQL server backend. I wanted to detail here my experience with going from literally nothing, to full use of Power BI, what problems we encountered, and how PBI and the Community helped ...

Although Data Quality and Data Governance are often used interchangeably, they are very different, both in theory and practice. While Data Quality Management at an enterprise happens both at the front (incoming data pipelines) and back ends (databases, servers), the whole process is defined, structured, and implemented through a well-designed framework.

A centralized product launch resource enables clear communication between you, your team, and your customers.

<p>We are thrilled to announce that Forrester has recognized Microsoft as a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise BI Platforms (Vendor-Managed), Q3 2019 tied for the highest score in strateg…

<p>Introducing a tool for accurate load testing of premium capacities</p>

The book, 'Accelerate', summarizes research from the State of DevOps Report and we've been using its four key metrics approach to improve our software.

Power BI licensing options are a mystery to many. It’s not that it is complicated; in fact, on the contrary, Power BI pricing is actually quite simple once you understand the basics. It is ju…

Introduction This article is actually the continuation of my previous article where we saw how to call Power BI API's with in Power BI itself with some Powershell scripts, new API , M-queries and Automation. This is the second part where I'll explain how to create a report out of it and configure ga...

Introduction As a PowerBI administrator it's always difficult to monitor the on-premises gateways with-in our organization,specically when the number on gateways has been growing rapidly.Today I'm going to tell you how tell how you can effecitivley administrate and monitoring those gateway in PowerB...

The recording of Uhms and Bunny Hands: Tips for Improving Your Presentation Skills (from DataGrillen 2019) is now available on YouTube!

Shared datasets, as well as dataset endorsements which include certified and promoted datasets, are interrelated and can play an important role in a self-service BI implementation of Power BI.

I am so excited to be sharing the first edition of the Power Platform Adoption Framework, the start-to-finish approach for adopting Microsoft’s Power Platform at scale. The white paper is available at this link. My hope is that the framework will continue to become a worldwide standard for enterpris

We need to use Power Platform Adoption Framework as an opportunity to embrace the whole platform, which means thinking about all the component parts — Power BI, Flow, PowerApps (and Common Data Service!) — when we think about enterprise adoption.

Here are links to the resources that helped a client recently as her team is switching over to Power BI. For additional resources, please let me know what you’d like to see, and I will dig it…

Every few weeks I see someone asking about using Analysis Services as a data source for Power BI dataflows. Every time I hear this, I cringe, and then include advice something like this[1] in my respo…

If you build software or data solutions[1] you have probably encountered one or both of these situations: You're trying to report a bug, but the developer doesn't believe that there's a problem. Someo…

I post about Power BI dataflows a lot, but that’s mainly because I love them. My background in data preparation and ETL, combined with dataflows’ general awesomeness makes them a natura…

Power BI is an excellent tool for departments or small organisations getting started with their BI solution. Unless some time is spent organising the solution, however, it can become cluttered. In this article, Gogula Aryalingam explains how to streamline the solution to keep it organized and efficient.