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Great article on how Flow and Power BI can work together by Konstantinos Ioannou. Republished below with the authors permission. To see the original article or contact the author please visit his site: https://medium.com/@Konstantinos_Ioannou/refresh-powerbi-dataset-with-microsoft-flow-73836c727...

Power BI Roundup containg details on Power BI Desktop, Power BI Service, Power BI Mobile, Power BI Premium, Gartner Magic Quadrant

In case you aren’t familiar, I would like to introduce you to the violin plot. A violin plot is a nifty chart that shows both distribution and density of data. It’s essentially a box pl…

The owners of Power BI datasets have the option to receive an email notification if a scheduled refresh fails. While this feature is helpful, given the importance of some datasets as the source for…

Today Gartner released the 2019 magic quadrant for Business Intelligence. As expected (by me at least), Microsoft is continuing its trail blazing and now has a clear lead over Tableau in both abil…

Depending on where your data lives, it may take a few seconds for that data to display in the PowerApp. There is nothing that drives users more nuts than just staring at a screen as it does nothing, w…

Yes, CSS for PowerApps, kinda. Actual CSS based style sheets are not possible, but the next best thing is. We can create a few objects to store our styles in, like colors, font sizes, dimensions, etc.…

For the third straight week, we’re delivering on the item I’ve heard more end-user feedback around than any other we’d promised to deliver in the October blogpost. At long last, you and your users …

If you are a Business Intelligence consultant working in Power Platform, Azure Logic Apps and Azure Analysis Services landscape, you probably felt that On-premises Data Gateway is one of the essential…

As part of our strategy to converge enterprise and self-service BI on Power BI as a single platform, we announced the public preview of incremental refresh last summer. While there is still more wo…

I recently read this blog post from Luis Freese about Microsoft To-do - 11 reasons why I fell in love with Microsoft To-Do and I couldn't agree more. In-fact, I can add 10 more to that list! One of the reasons mentioned was around moving flagged e-mails to To-Do using Microsoft Flow . To take this ...

Learn how to build custom visuals using the Charts.PowerBI.Tips tool. In this tutorial we walk though building a basic bar chart.

Thanks for watching this week’s Power BI news roundup! Last weeks roundup: https://guyinacu.be/roundup126a 2 Minute Tuesday: https://guyinacu.be/tenant Patrick’s tech video: https://guyinacu.be/streamingdataset Adam’s tech video: https://guyinacu.be/adddomain Sources Workspace V2 of Power BI: What Are Advantages Vs Old Version? (@Rad_Reza) How Many Data Gateways Does My Azure BI Architecture Need? (@mmarie) Bulk Operations in the Admin Portal […]

With the Power BI craze that kicked into high gear in 2017, it’s less common to be working in PowerPivot in Excel. However, during one of my recent remote consulting calls, one of our many clients needed some help with a solution created in PowerPivot in Excel. And I often find if ONE person needs help or has a

Working out how long a Power Query M query takes to run – the first step to troubleshooting refresh performance problems in Power BI or Excel – is something I have blogged about several times (see …

The February 2019 release of Power BI Desktop includes some new functionality not mentioned in the summary blog post, functionality that is already in the latest Excel 365 builds (thanks Ed Hansber…

Matt here. The blog article this week was written by Neville de Sousa. Neville shared with me a Power BI report that shows all the Power BI features released since July 2015. Neville will explai…

Understanding the main principles of Parameters and Functions in Power Query and Power BI when it comes to Data Preparation and the M language.

We’re very grateful to our customers, our community members, and our partners for making Power BI what it is today. Thank you. The Power BI Team Get the 20…

Tutorial - create a key influencers visualization in Power BI

I was recently testing out the new awesome dataflows in Power BI, and no matter what I did my dataflow refresh would fail. I was getting the same error no matter what I did. In order to find the error…

Power BI Bookmarks, Synced Slicers and Selections; these features transformed the way we report using Power BI. Now, most of the business users want reports with actionable interactivity. Well, it…

Today Microsoft released a preview of the Template Apps - A new experience that was designed for partners and ISVs to deliver streamlined analytics to their clients (If you still don't see this new ex…

January was a feature-filled month for the Power BI team! We kicked off this new year by announcing some of the highly requested features by our community and couldn’t have wished for a better star…

The February update for Power BI Desktop has a preview of our new Key Influencers visual, which lets you perform key drivers analysis over your data with just a few clicks. We also have some major …

While searching for a compact formula to retrieve the textual representations of a type in Power Query, I learned that a type comparison in Power Query will return unreliable results, as "Type equivalence is not defined in M". So I continue using my old function, which I'm sharing here as well.

<p>Canvas app authors have new tools for working with Common Data Service for Apps relationships: Relate and Unrelate functions. Many-to-Many relationships Since December, you have been able to …

In this video, Adam looks at how you can add a domain to your Power BI tenant. This is done by adding the domain through Azure Active Directory or Office 365.

As the volume and complexity of the data continue to grow exponentially, organizations need an analytics solution that is fast, secure, and easy-to-use, so they can extract critical insights from t…