scope for the CoE, and in addition, you might have some existing team members and you might need to recruit as well. This article covers not only the skills, knowledge, and behaviour of your CoE, b…

Organisations come in many shapes and forms, so do their needs. Scoping a Power BI Centre of excellence is time sensitive, as nowadays, companies are in constant evolution. The BI journey has many …

To realise the vision of a CoE, a common and fundamental requirement is to have support from your organisation’s leadership. CoE is no different from any other investment within a company: you will…

Power BI CoE is an important concept if it is understood that Power BI implementation does not end when the platform is open and available to your organisation. Implementation starts at this point.…

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.

We’re glad to announce that it is now possible to use Single Sign-On, leveraging Kerberos, when connecting to certain data sources using DirectQuery mode from Power BI.

One of the really cool features contained within the PowerBI.com service is the ability to monitor how often your dashboard or report is being viewed. You’ll find this feature by opening up …

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Happy Friday all! Last week, we announced the latest preview of Power BI Report Server, which included new functionality like additional data source support and support for viewing Excel Workbooks.…

Please join me and other 2017 PASS Summit speakers for 24 Hours of PASS: Summit Preview on July 19th and 20th.  24HOP is a series of 60 minute on-line sessions presented back-to-back for 24 ho…

Thought I’d post my initial impressions of installing Power BI Report Server. Unless you’ve been disconnected from the web for any length of time, you’ve heard of Power BI. In May 2017, Microsoft r…

With Power BI apps, now in preview, you can easily deploy and manage a collection of purpose-built dashboards and reports to a large number of business users and empower them to make data-driven decisions. You can distribute them to the whole organization or to specific people or groups.

The Man, The Myth, The On-Prem Server Guy… Chris Finlan and I have known each other for some time now. He emailed me out of the blue 3.5 years ago and we’v

There are two licensing options for Power BI: Power BI Pro and Power BI Premium. This provides the flexibility to select the model that best meets the needs of individual users and entire organization…

Today, we’re pleased to announce the release of a new version of Power BI Report Server. This release contains all of the features we first introduced in the August 2017 Preview, and several new featu…

I have written while ago, about how to implement a dynamic row level security in Power BI. This post is an addition to that post. I’ve had a lot of inquiries that; “What If I want users to see their o…

The Dynamic RLS topic is getting a good response in my blog post, so I intend to write about other types of scenarios that a security would be required. In this post, we are going to look at another t…

If you are the goto person for Power BI in your organisation, then I am sure at least once you may h...