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The weekly Power BI Roundup details the latest updates in the Power BI world with this week around dataflows, MBAS 2019, On-Premise Data Gateway

Adam looks at the Power BI Admin Portal and the roles you need to be able to access and manage your Power BI items. This consists of two potential roles within Azure Active Directory or Office 365.

In the last two parts, first how we able to use cognitive service in Power BI service (Data flow) has been explained. Then in the second one, the process of using a Pre-built machine learning model for prediction ( classification, regression, and forecasting) has been explained. In this post, I am going to show how…

Now that Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 is now based on Azure Storage as its foundation, we have a new level to incorporate into our planning process the file system itself. The file system contains the files and folders, and is equivalent to a container in Azure Blob Storage which contains blobs. In

Most of the focus on Power BI dataflows so far has been on the use of Power Query Online to load data from external data sources. However, when you create a dataflow you also have the option to att…

Explore new ways to distill actionable insights from your data that drive business growth and what’s new with Power BI capabilities bundled in the April 2019 release. Join us for the Business Applications Virtual Launch Event, streaming live on April 2 from 8:00-9:30 AM PDT. This free event will showcase the new features coming in … Continue reading “See What’s Coming Next in Microsoft Power BI”

Level: Advanced This is the second in my series of articles explaining how to use Microsoft Flow, the Azure APIs, the Power BI APIs and SharePoint Online to help make Power BI Premium more affordab…

Level: Advanced This is another one of those articles that has been swirling in my head for a very long time, about 2 years actually. I have long been frustrated by the lack of a suitable scalable…

Dataflows in Power BI are a really interesting capability for centralizing and reusing Power Query logic among many different PBIX files. If you’ve found yourself copying M scripts (Power Query formula language) between files, or creating a library of M scripts then you should look into dataflows.

How to "Predict the future" by using Power BI? Power BI, in the latest release, added support for supervised automated machine learning.This means that Power BI can help predict ‘unknowns’ once it learns from the ‘known’ values. The learning phase is called “training the model” and predicting phase ...

Weekly Power BI RoundUp which details Service and Mobile Updates, On-Premise Data Gateway, Power BI App Workspaces V2, Embedded & Multivariate

Case Microsoft recently introduced Power BI dataflows for self-service ETL or data preparation. It uses an Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), ...

Several months ago, we introduced Power BI dataflows as Public Preview. Now, we’re happy to announce that Power BI dataflows are generally available! Power BI dataflows provide business analysts with a self-service data prep and management experience within Power BI, allowing them to collect business data from various sources, clean and transform it — leveraging … Continue reading “Announcing Power BI dataflows general availability”

I have previously written about What dataflow is and scenarios of using it. I also wrote an article about Computed Entity and the important role of that for performance and data lineage. However, a Computed entity is a premium-only feature. There are sometimes that you don't really need premium functions of Power BI, and only…

Classical incremental refresh is possible to implement for the some kind of data sources in Power BI Service with the help of dataflows.

This blog post covers the latest updates for Power BI embedded analytics and Custom Visuals.

Power BI dataflows have been available in public preview since November 2018. For almost five months, customers around the world have been kicking the tires, testing and providing feedback, and buildi…

We are excited to announce the rollout of the new Q&A dashboard experience. This new update aims to align the existing Q&A experience found inside reports and merges this into the Q&A f…

Power BI is a platform that lets you meet the diverse needs of your enterprise user base, from self-service analytics to centralized report distribution. A critical part of this flexibility is the enterprise semantic model, which provides a secure, governed, and descriptive representation of your business metrics, available as a single source of truth across … Continue reading “Azure Analysis Services now supported and what’s coming next with Paginated Reports in Power BI”

Automated ML integration with Power BI dataflows allows training and applying Binary Prediction, General Classification and Regression models. The ML models are internally represented as specially marked dataflow entities. I’ll describe how the ML related entities are defined in M language and how t...

We’re excited to announce the preview of Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) for Dataflows in Power BI. AutoML enables business analysts to build machine learning models with clicks, not code…

In this Power BI RoundUp, it goes through all the latest version with Dataflows, XMLA End Points, Updates to Paginated Reports and more

Automated ML and Cognitive Services in Power BI enables compelling new analytics scenarios – with cognitive services you can perform sentiment analysis, pull key phrases from unstructured text, tag…

Are you taking advantage of Power BI’s modeling capability? This is a terrific built in capability and many users build models as they begin to design their reports. However, as we transition Power BI into being our enterprise visualization and reporting tool, some of the legacy applications just aren’t going to go away. Many … Continue reading What Power BI XMLA Endpoints means for you →

In this tutorial you use Cognitive Services and dataflows in Power BI.

Thanks for watching this week’s Power BI news roundup! Last weeks roundup: https://guyinacu.be/roundup132a 2 Minute Tuesday: https://guyinacu.be/sortmonth Patrick’s tech video: https://guyinacu.be/geoflow Adam’s tech video: https://guyinacu.be/playgroundtoken Sources The easiest way to do small-multiples in Power BI! (@TumbleRoad) Power BI Paginated Report Builder Now Available Announcing Power BI dataflows general availability Creating Machine Learning models in Power […]

It’s time again to recap all the features and announcements we made in the month of March. Premium Multi-Geo General Availability Users outside your organization can edit and manage content with Az…