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BI is all about measuring your business success. But what about BI on BI? Wouldn't it be crucial for your organization and business to measure the success of your BI? While the current out-of-the-box …

Recently, I was asked by a customer to create a process (in SharePoint) that empowers users to report disruptions. Some of the requirements (such as scanning bar-codes and reporting on an iPad) made me decide to create a PowerApp for reporting the disruptions. They also wanted the reporter and the handler to have the ability […]

This is the first blog post dedicated to Analysis Services on the Power BI blog. As discussed in this post on the old Analysis Services team blog, Microsoft is moving off MSDN and TechNet blogs. We have made it clear that Power BI will be a one-stop shop for both enterprise and self-service BI on … Continue reading “What’s new for SQL Server 2019 Analysis Services CTP 3.0”

<p>Today, we&#8217;re announcing the ability to add your Canvas apps and Flows to solutions (Preview) in the Common Data Service for Apps &#8211; even if they weren&#8217;t orig…

We had recently announced the public preview of our new view designer. Since then many of you have actively used it and given us great feedback to help make it even better. Today we are happy to announce that the new view designer is out of preview and available for general use. The latest update includes additional features, added based on your feedback, to help makers quickly and productively author views.

Watch a video to learn how to use to SharePoint Document Libraries in PowerApps, and download the sample PowerApp you see in the video!

In this post, we will look at using the Power Query (M) Builder in XrmToolBox, developed by Mohamed Rashid and Ulrik “CRM Chart Guy” Carlsson. This tool is a great way to quickly help build Dynamics 3…

Need to work with hours and minutes in your Power BI report? How do you slice by that grain? Patrick shows you a way you can work with time in Power BI Desktop. Download sample report Want to download…

We’re happy to announce our May 2019 update of Power BI Report Server! This release has many reporting features including conditional formatting for titles and other visual objects, the perfo…

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Technology changes but the need for tradeoffs between the rights of the individual and the rights of the community as a whole remain. The new “governed data discovery” is just the next …

Part 2 in a blog series focusing on breaking down the concept of governed data discovery.

Part 1 in a blog series focusing on breaking down the concept of governed data discovery.

How to have both centralized management and end-user agility with one data analysis tool.

10 common challenges for a business intelligence director including lack of BI platform adoption and an inability to carry out effective change management.

Roundup of business intelligence maturity models from key analysts and experts in BI to identify organizational strengths and weaknesses.

With most companies listing BI within their top agenda, and with the rising costs and confusion around proving the worth of BI and justifying its costs, it makes sense to try and understand the evolut…

There are three fundamental steps in building a data warehouse for a BI solution (see Why you need Business Intelligence): Identify the data the users interact with, or would like to interact with,…

Do you ever wonder how your business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW) environment compares to other companies and what steps you should be taking to progress your analytics platform? One…

The BI maturity model can tell you what your business needs to take advantage of business intelligence. But where do you fit on that model? Here's how to take steps toward business intelligence maturi…

Collibra’s data governance and catalog solutions give teams powerful tools that make it easy to consume data across the enterprise.

An introduction of using SVG measures to add KPI indicators to a table.

Series This is the fourth post in my series on using SVG in Power BI and actually solves one of the niggles I had with doing KPI figures in Power BI. I didn’t get to do this part as part of my session which started this series. Here is the list of posts. My niggle […]

Dozens of Power BI visuals come out-of-the box with Power BI Desktop. These visuals are available in the visualizations’ pane when you create or edit Power BI content. These visuals are just the beginning of the available options to help you tell your data story. Learn about the variety of options you get with Power BI visuals and how to manage them in your organization.

Detailed explanation as to what you pay for when you are using Power BI Premium, as well as to why it is different from Power BI Pro

If You’re Not Building Data Models, You’re Not Doing Power BI (or Data!) the Right Way Alternate Titles Abound! I could have just as easily titled this post ANY of the following: Why Power BI is (much) better than Tableau and other tools Why Power BI is (much) better than SQL-based reporting The importance of Data

Video by: Reid Havens Provides a walk through of the new Performance Analyzer in Power BI. The Performance Analyzer captures operations that occur while a user interacts with a report . Additionally, I built a Power BI report off the exported data . This report summarizes those operation

How to change the data source of your queries (file path, folder path, or any other data source parameters) using Power BI / Power Query with the Data Source Settings.