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Last December, I teamed up with my brother (who runs Daily Cookie, an email marketing boutique) to deliver the best-of-breed Power BI app for email marketing. DataChant and Daily Cookie proudly present the ActiveCampaign Email Marketing app. The app is available to download on Microsoft AppSource for free here. If you don't have a Power…

I’ve been thinking quite a bit lately about Power Platform as one of the three principal components of the one Microsoft Cloud, alongside Azure and Microsoft 365 of course. This is particularly important in more complex data ecosystem, one of the enterprise management dimensions you’ll find in the P

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.

AI Insights in Power Query is a great Premium feature in Power BI. AI Insights Error can occur if you are not fully aware of the settings.

With this conditional formatting technique, you can show your users a message on the visual (using text or images) instead of a blank visual.

Interested in learning how to compare certain budgeted scenarios vs. actuals? In this blog post, I will demonstrate a technique to show you how to do that.

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_single_image media="88035" media_width_percent="100"][vc_column_text]Watch the video above to learn how to set up a visual with a dynamic date axis […]

Blogging about Power BI, Power Platform and other things I find interesting.

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

Power BI is the Magic Quadrant Leader among analytics and business intelligence platforms and over 200,000 customers around the world use Power BI and bring 40 petabytes of data into Power BI every …

We’re pleased to share that we are now previewing step folding indicators in Power Query Online. These indicators will allow you to understand which steps fold, and which steps don’t. Read on for more.

External user on boarding to the tenant

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 …

Imagine using GitHub and Visual Studio Code with the text formulas of a Canvas app.  Teams can collaborate on apps: they can work on private branches, diff changes, create pull requests for review, and merge into master. We are very pleased to announce the experimental release of a tool that enables these modern miracles.  It is but the first step as we make application lifecycle management easier for formulas and Canvas apps.

We’re excited to introduce you to the Innovation Backlog – a new app that’s part of the Center of Excellence (CoE) Starter Kit. The Innovation Backlog app gives your business users a place to record and prioritize their wish list of digital innovations. Your teams can use this app to submit ideas for apps and flows and describe pain points with the current process. Using a wizard to describe the current process, team members provide information about the people involved, the tools used, and ways to measure improvement.

Paradigm BI Posts - Paradigm BI and Active Business Intelligence Updates - Adaptive Cards for Power BI is a simple concept that is designed to be easily implemented.

Back in October I blogged about using PowerShell and/or the Power BI dataflows REST APIs to trigger a dataset refresh on dataflow refresh completion. This was a new capability and was well received…

Time fore new enhancements to the Power BI model Documenter tool! I just presented the new enhanced version of the Power BI model Documenter at the Dutch Power BI User group. Soon, there will also …

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…

It has been a long time that I use SQL Server Profiler to diagnose my data models in the Power BI Desktop. I wrote a blog post in June 2016 about connecting to the underlying Power BI Desktop model from different tools, including SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), Excel and SQL Server Profiler. In this … Continue reading Quick Tips: Registering SQL Server Profiler as an External Tool in Power BI Desktop