BI Framework

I’m joining Adam Saxton on the famous Saturday morning Guy In A Cube live stream! We’re going to chat a bit about the newly updated Power BI End-To-End diagram , as well as what the top few challenges are when governing Power BI. And we’ll tackle questions from the audience.

Why Microsoft 365 adoption projects fail - a deeper look into corporate mental models, organizational structures, and patterns in working behavior

Before digging into this, let’s be clear about 1 thing. When Power BI Premium Per User (PPU for short) and Power BI Premium v2 were announced at Ignite 2020, the collective user base of Power BI …

In the Power BI service, you can easily look at refresh times for an individual dataset or dataflow. There are many different reasons why these metrics are important to you as a dataset or dataflow…

You know Power BI governance is important. And I know you’re busy. Need a little help on what to focus on? Consider enrolling for my Power BI Deployment and Governance workshop. I’m really excited about this format because I think it’s good bridge between random online searching for info and doi

The idea for this new functionality was born out of thinking about how to improve the efficiency and performance of the Power BI scan so that it could support large numbers of data assets while still conforming to the security practices of organizations.

At Microsoft Ignite, we found out about Power BI Premium Gen2. It’s not available for you to use and WOW! It has changed the game! Adam walks you through what the changes are to help you level up. Docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/power-bi/admin/service-premium-what-is#power-bi-premium-generation-2-preview Performance video on Power BI YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMOrMmJ1_Ec

Microsoft newly announced a piece of very exciting news that Azure Purview now supports Power BI. This is massive news from a data governance point of view. Azure Purview is the next generation of Azure Data Catalog with more metadata discovery power and the ability to use sensitivity labels. After reading the news, I immediately … Continue reading Power BI Governance, Good Practices: Setting up Azure Purview for Power BI

Maybe you’ve heard of Azure Purview, the new Azure data governance service, that was released into public preview in the beginning of December 2020. Very often, when I want to test some new s…

PPU licensing brings all the sharing and collaborating of a Power BI Pro license but adds additional features, previously only available when purchasing Premium Capacity.

We are excited to announce General Availability (GA) for Power BI Premium support for large models, along with additional new features, such as User interface enhancements, Multi-Geo support, and Bring your own encryption keys (BYOK).

After the announcement of the Azure Purview preview, the first videos published (Microsoft Mechanics and Simon Whiteley), my first Purview overview blog post it is now time to start with Azure Purv…

With the introduction of the Power BI Premium per User licensing, it can be observed that most small to medium organizations have become excited about it more than anyone. The main reason for this …

These are the seventeen reasons why IT will not let me send my 250MB Excel file that we use to run the business via email At Ricoh Digital Services (AKA the day job) we do a lot of Data & Analy…

Today’s announcements give a roadmap update for workspace upgrade, content pack deprecation, and announce new tools for Power BI Admins to upgrading classic workspaces through the admin portal. Announcements: Workspace upgrade has reached general availability. We’ve started to roll-out tools for Power BI admins to upgrade classic workspaces. We’re providing a roadmap update below including dates for removing the ability to create, update, and use content packs in classic workspaces.

Data Governance – the knowledge, management and insights about and over your data estate is a very important topic. In the past years the number of data stores, systems and data interfaces gr…

Power BI has partnered with the newly released Azure Purview to provide enhanced governance and cataloging capabilities for our customers. The Azure Purview/Power BI integration makes it possible for you to discover and govern all your hybrid data, and thereby gain a more complete understanding of your data.

Today, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Synapse Analytics and the preview of Azure Purview, a unified data governance service. Azure Synapse Analytics is a limitless analytics service that brings together data integration, enterprise data warehousing, and big data analytics.

Announcing a new capability that enables template app publishers to automate the configuration of a template app installation for their customers!

We hare happy to share details about availability of enhanced Power BI premium using the next generation technology from Power BI

We are almost ready to launch the public preview of the new Power BI Premium per user SKU in early to mid-November.  We are excited to give users access to these capabilities as soon as possible, while at the same time ensuring that we are prioritizing the users/tenants that are most interested in previewing these capabilities. 

The date you have long waited for has finally arrived!  The public preview of Power BI Premium per user has been enabled in all public tenants that requested priority access, and will be rolling out to all tenants worldwide throughout the month of November.  Now, Power BI users have access to all the Power BI Premium capabilities, on a per user basis, for the entire trial period for free.