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What are release pipelines in Azure Pipelines?

This is part 2 of the Analysis Services DevOps blog series. Go to part 1 Branching strategy and workflow The first thing we need to align before getting started, is what branching strategy to use. While this sounds boring, it’s actually quite important, because it will dictate what the daily development workflow will be

According to the internet, a maxim is a succinct formulation of a fundamental principle, general truth, or rule of conduct.[1] Maxims tend to relate to common situations and topics that are underst…

Enterprise Service Management (ESM) Performance Dashboard built on Microsoft Power BI for the BMC Helix Remedyforce platform

There were several interesting Data & AI announcements that came out of Microsoft Build 2021. I put together this summary of 11 interesting and includes links to both the announcements and other follow-on information.

Last month I wrote the first part of this blog post, which is intended for users that are in the beginning of their Power BI journey. After a long wait, I finally had some time to finish the second part of the post! If you don't remember what we discussed in the first post, have a look in the link below: Power BI Report Development 101 - Part 1 (datapears.com) Review of the Part 1 finished? Amazing!! So, let's go back to our diagram: Colours legend: Blue Squares - These steps are usually mandato

Learn how a Center of Excellence helped Microsoft create a standardized analytics and data platform to unlock insights with the right operating model, stakeholder engagement, and shared and dedicated investments.

When you hear someone say that governance and self-service BI don’t go together, or some variation on the tired old “Power BI doesn’t do data governance” trope, you should i…

CSG ProCustom Software, Business Intelligence and Cloud Servicespower bi implementationsWhat to Expect When You’re Expecting a Power BI ImplementationThe implementation of a tool is even more …

Going forward, there will be two major changes to the Power BI Deployment & Governance training course. Video content will be consumed by participants on-demand Group Q&A sessions, will be held independently, will be live at multiple times to accommodate global time zones

An introduction to deployment pipelines the Power BI Application lifecycle management (ALM) tool

With Power BI becoming more and more popular, it can be observed that organizations are trying to move their current reporting platform in to Power BI based solutions. However, success of this migr…

Power BI toolkit including Data Lineage, Backups, Change Tracking, Auditing, Usage Analytics and Documentation, to help you keep control of Power BI

Here I will describe how to buy a brand new SKU, namely the Power BI Premium Per User Add-on. This SKU can be used to upgrade existing Power BI Pro licenses, either if you purchased a Pro license separately or together with an M365 E5 subscription, if you want to unlock new capabilities. The purchase is rather simple, just go to the M365 Admin portal purchase the necessary number of licenses and assign the Add-on to existing users that already have a Power BI Pro license assigned. BE AWARE (1), after upgrading an existing workspace (V2) to a Premium Per User workspace, content can be access...

After four months in public preview, we’re pleased to announce that the ability to purchase Power BI Premium on a per user basis is now generally available. 

Object-Level security exists for a while in some Microsoft's products. But, this is a brand new feature in Power BI! Still in preview, so let's put it in the spotlight and check all its Pros and Cons

Today’s post builds on top of Power BI Admin Scripts Part I by describing five additional PowerShell scripts that Power BI service administrators can utilize to address relatively common scen…

Launching the anticipated autoscale add-on preview for Premium gen2 capacity

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_single_image media="88067" media_width_percent="100"][vc_column_text]In this Power BI tutorial, you'll learn how to lock down your data model using Object-Level Security […]

The Microsoft Power BI team’s mission is to help our customers drive a data culture where everyone can make better decisions with data. Power BI empowers every business user and business analyst to get amazing insights with AI infused experiences. With Power BI Premium, we enable business analysts to not only analyze and visualize their data, but to also build an end-to-end data platform through drag and drop experiences.

The blog post demonstratesstore the Power BI Audit Logs using Azure Function Apps and Azure Blog Storage to store the files.

A full, easy to install Power BI Version Control solution allowing source control, check ins and local editing. Download for free now!

In this video, we look at Power BI for report consumers, or end users. Those folks that maybe don’t author reports, but just view reports within Power BI. We introduce some basic Power BI concepts and introduce you to areas of the Power BI service to get you familiar with the portal. Documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/power-bi/consumer/

This articles looks at Power BI architecture in a data solution and different roles and responsibilities involved to expand Power BI skills.

One of the most exciting things about being a Power BI service administrator is watching what's going on inside the service. This blog starts a series of articles on how to create your own Service Monitoring application using Power BI.