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This is the year that low-code cloud transformation goes mainstream . With that I’ll also share my top five reflections on Ignite from a cloud strategy perspective. Joe Griffin has got a great top five at a more detailed feature-by-feature level on his CRM Chap blog , and I also recommend you

Today’s announcement by Arun around the introduction of a Premium per user license option has generated a lot of interest and excitement in the Power BI community. It has also generated a lot of questions, so we’ve put together this blog post to answer some of the most common ones we’ve seen.

I love Power BI On the 23rd of September at the Microsoft Ignite conference, Microsoft announced changes to Power BI Premium, and introduced a Power BI Premium Per User license. This sounded a bit …

Microsoft Ignite has always announced many new products and new product features, and this year was no exception. Many exciting announcements, and below I list the major data platform related …

#Project #Management outline from initialization to closeout put together using PMBOK's 5th edition Guide as a reference. All text files can be downloaded from my repo and ready for use for your own PM journey.

During this new Microsoft Ignite format, with 48 hours of hours of digital sessions and interactions where thousands of IT professionals will come together, we have several exciting innovations to announce that will help customers drive clarity when they need it most.

The Power BI team at Microsoft publishes a “release plan,” which is essentially the public product roadmap. Anyone can use it to understand what new capabilities and improvements are planned, and …

Getting more insights in the telemetry of your Power BI dataset is always interesting. Especially if you share your Power BI dataset for self-service purposes to build new reports on top of your ma…

Have you ever heard the term “Excel hell”? Odds are, if you’re reading this blog you’ve heard it, and possibly lived it once or twice. If not, you may want to take a minute …

What would an epic battle be without champions? Lost. The epic battle would be lost without champions. Don’t let this happen to you battle to build a data culture. Instead, find your champion…

Data source management in admin center

One of the great news in Microsoft Ignite 2020 is the announcement of a new licensing plan for Microsoft Power BI, called Premium Per User, or Premium Gen2. In this article, I'll explain what that is, and how this can be helpful for Power BI users. Power BI Licensing To understand the Premium Per User…

At Microsoft Ignite, there were two really exciting announcements when it comes to enterprise features for Power BI. Both directly took my attention, as well as for many others. Obviously, the firs…

Power BI lets business users solve more and more problems without requiring deep BI and data expertise. This is what self-service business intelligence is all about, as we saw when we looked at a b…

In an ideal world, everyone knows where to find the resources and tools they need to be successful. We don’t live in that world. I’m not even sure we can see that world from here. But i…

Last week’s post on migrating to Power BI was intended to be a stand-alone post, but this excellent comment from Matthew Choo via LinkedIn made me realize I had more to say. I could not agree…

The last post and video in this series looked at the broad topic of training. This post looks at as specific aspect of this topic: letting people know what is possible, and sparking their imaginati…

Moving important business data into a data model for analytic reporting can often be a two-edge sword. Data retrieval is fast and can support all kinds of analytic trending and comparisons. But, da…

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 …

The date you have long waited for has finally arrived!  The public preview of Power BI Premium per user has been enabled in all public tenants that requested priority access, and will be rolling out to all tenants worldwide throughout the month of November.  Now, Power BI users have access to all the Power BI Premium capabilities, on a per user basis, for the entire trial period for free. 

We are almost ready to launch the public preview of the new Power BI Premium per user SKU in early to mid-November.  We are excited to give users access to these capabilities as soon as possible, while at the same time ensuring that we are prioritizing the users/tenants that are most interested in previewing these capabilities. 

We hare happy to share details about availability of enhanced Power BI premium using the next generation technology from Power BI

Announcing a new capability that enables template app publishers to automate the configuration of a template app installation for their customers!

Today, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Synapse Analytics and the preview of Azure Purview, a unified data governance service. Azure Synapse Analytics is a limitless analytics service that brings together data integration, enterprise data warehousing, and big data analytics.

Power BI has partnered with the newly released Azure Purview to provide enhanced governance and cataloging capabilities for our customers. The Azure Purview/Power BI integration makes it possible for you to discover and govern all your hybrid data, and thereby gain a more complete understanding of your data.

Data Governance – the knowledge, management and insights about and over your data estate is a very important topic. In the past years the number of data stores, systems and data interfaces gr…

Today’s announcements give a roadmap update for workspace upgrade, content pack deprecation, and announce new tools for Power BI Admins to upgrading classic workspaces through the admin portal. Announcements: Workspace upgrade has reached general availability. We’ve started to roll-out tools for Power BI admins to upgrade classic workspaces. We’re providing a roadmap update below including dates for removing the ability to create, update, and use content packs in classic workspaces.

These are the seventeen reasons why IT will not let me send my 250MB Excel file that we use to run the business via email At Ricoh Digital Services (AKA the day job) we do a lot of Data & Analy…