Use Power BI to Collect Unstructured Data from the Web
Follow the steps in this article to learn how to scrape data from websites, structure it in tables, and use it in a Power BI report. In this example, I show how to create a Power BI calendar of eve…
In this tutorial, I will walk you through creating your own Power BI News Dashboard, which visualizes news about any topic that might interest you. While most of us use Power BI to analyze our own data, the ‘Get Data from Web’ functionality makes it just as easy to analyze external data. The possi...
Announcing new data protection capabilities in Power BI
We are excited to announce new data protection capabilities in Power BI that build on Microsoft’s strengths in security and enable customers to empower every user with Power BI and better protect their data no matter how or where it is accessed. Classify and label sensitive Power BI data using the familiar Microsoft Information Protection sensitivity labels used in Office. Enforce governance policies even when Power BI content is exported to Excel, PowerPoint, or PDF, to help ensure data is protected even when it leaves Power BI. Monitor and protect user activity on sensitive data in real t...
Microsoft Certified Power Platform Fundamentals - Learn
Prove you understand the core capabilities of the Power Platform–from business value and core product capabilities to building a basic Power Apps canvas app, connecting data sources, automating with Microsoft Flow, and creating a Power BI dashboard.
Microsoft Flow becomes Power Automate and other Cool Features from Microsoft Ignite 2019
As announced in at the Microsoft Ignite 2019 conference in Orlando, FL, Microsoft Flow will now be known as Power Automate. The rebranding moves the product in line with the Microsoft Power Platform, which consists of PowerApps, Power BI and now (formerly Flow) Power Automate. Microsoft has been describing the Power Platform as a way to “analyze, act, and automate” data and processes, so it’s not a huge surprise that … Continue reading Microsoft Flow becomes Power Automate and other Cool Features from Microsoft Ignite 2019
During the keynote at Ignite 2019, Satya Nadella announced that Microsoft Flow is gaining Robotic Process Automation (RPA) capabilities. From now on, Flow will have the following types of Flows: Automated Flows Business Process Flows (BPF) Instant Flows UI Flows (NEW!) Power Automate Next to that, he announced that Microsoft
Prolific app maker ignites low code revolution at Schlumberger
Schlumberger is the world’s largest oil service company with operations in over 85 countries with 100k+ employees. Read how Alan Chai drove a citizen development effort along with the Digital Cells at Schlumberger to drive viral adoption of the Microsoft Power Platform, reaching over 10k monthly active users, 650+ production apps and 120+ citizen developers building solutions across 32 countries.
In this article, we will use JSON for canvas apps function and export all the images in a PowerApps Gallery to an HTML file and then convert that HTML\PDF file using the Microsoft Flow. To reduce the complexity, we will divide the article in three parts: Design a canvas app that will capture Multip...
Robotic process automation now in preview in Microsoft Power Automate
Today we’re announcing the preview of UI flows, which adds robotic process automation (RPA) capabilities to Microsoft Power Automate (previously Microsoft Flow).
Keep (Select), Rename and Reorder your Columns with Power BI / Power Query
How to select, rename and reorder columns in Power BI / Power Query using a helper table and M code such as Table.SelectColumns, Table.RenameColumns and others.
Power BIte: Creating dataflows with linked and computed entities
This week’s Power BIte is the second in a series of videos[1] that present different ways to create new Power BI dataflows, and the results of each approach. When creating a dataflow by defin…
If you haven’t seen the news, the Power Platform has a new member of the family: Power Virtual Agents! Power Virtual Agents, provide exceptional support to customers and employees with AI-dri…
Choosing Azure Analysis Services for large datasets - SQLBI
I often get questions about use cases for Azure Analysis Services. So I wanted to do a quick recap of the points I commonly discuss in these conversations,
Introducing new AI Builder preview models for Power Automate and Power Apps
AI Builder was released in general availability on October 1st with the first two AI scenarios, Prediction and Business Card Reader. Any user can start a free trial instantly for 30 days. Even more AI scenarios are available in preview at no cost. Discover what’s new.
Power Apps Top 10: innovation areas that are reshaping app development
As we open Microsoft’s annual Ignite conference, it’s a good time to reflect on the factors that have propelled the staggering momentum behind Power Apps, and share some details of what the future looks like as the service matures. Whether you’re a seasoned #PowerAddict or just starting out with the platform, here’s the definitive “top 10” list of major innovation areas and trends to watch as Power Apps scales across organizations globally.
Experimental formula bar provides speed and usability improvements
We are excited to introduce an experimental setting where you can try a new formula bar experience with improved speed and usability features informed by some of the requested improvements from the community. Try it out, and give some feedback on the experience.
Power Platform customizations often require different input parameters and configuration across different environments. Environment variables feature in solutions provides a robust tool set for this automation. They allow you to define different input parameters across environments and manage the values outside of your apps or code.
We are excited to announce the public preview of large models in Power BI Premium. This enables fast user interactivity over large datasets. Until now, dataset caches in Power BI Premium have been limited to 10 GB after compression. Large models remove this limitation, so dataset cache sizes are limited only by the Power BI Premium capacity size.
Announcing Enterprise Information Management Capabilities in Power BI
Power BI introduces Enterprise Information Management capabilities, including data lineage and data protection, to help users manage and protect their data assets.
Weaving Business Intelligence into the fabric of the organization with Microsoft Power BI
Through community driven innovation and decades of enterprise BI excellence, Microsoft delivers amazing data exploration experiences and enterprise grade capabilities in Power BI. Today at Microsoft Ignite, we’re announcing the next wave of innovation that will allow organizations around the world to bring analytics to everybody through trusted, actionable new experiences.
If you’re building DAX queries using Power BI Report Builder you might notice something that looks like a new DAX function called RSCustomDaxFilter. For example, here’s a simple DAX query built fro…
Guest Story: Maintain a simple database with Power Query
Our guest today is Kolyu Minevski, Director, Financial Management and Reporting at Fadata Group. You can contact him here. This article will demonstrate how Power Query can be used for maintaining a simple database/register. Traditionally Power Query is perceived as a tool for data extracting, cleaning and shaping for further analysis. In this case, its …