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Past releases in power bi have seen new enterprise related capabilities coming out which lets you manage power bi usage within your organisation. Few such feature that came out with Power BI desktop April update is query parameters and template files. In this blog post we will look at how to utilise...

Microsoft has posted more details and guidance regarding its June security patch which broke Group Policy for a number of users.

Microsoft today announced that Power BI Embedded will be generally available on July 11, 2016. Power BI Embedded allows application developers to embed fully interactive reports and visualizations in customer-facing apps without the time and expense of having to build their own controls from the ground-up. Microsoft also announced that Power BI publish to web […]

In this module you will learn how to use the Histogram, a Power BI Custom Visual.  A Histogram is a column chart which shows the distribution of occurrences divided into categories, called bins.  T…

Your company’s page on Linkedin is a treasure trove of insightful data. In today’s post I will show you how to import this data to Excel or Power BI Desktop. In my posts here and here, we focused on the companies-search Linkedin API call, which allowed us to extract companies by specific specialties/domains and perform analysis of industry, geolocation …

As I was working on the Presidential Facebook Reaction Dashboard here, the Power BI team have announced the release of the Pulse Chart. Excited by the potential of this custom visual, I set the next target for my blog – To share how to define dynamic top events in Pulse Charts. While I am working on the next blog post, …

Writing measures referencing other measures is in general a good idea that simplifies the DAX code, but you might face specific bottlenecks. This article de

The new DAX available in Excel 2016 and the data model in Power BI and Analysis Services 2016 offer tools to manage many-to-many relationships in a more eff

Today it’s my pleasure to announce the upcoming General Availability of Microsoft Power BI Embedded. Power BI Embedded is a globally available, cloud-scale service that gives ISVs the ability to create, deploy, and manage data-rich applications with ease. By leveraging Microsoft Power BI, ISVs can bring compelling and interactive data visualizations to their customers.

I LOVE Pivot Tables – they are (in my view) the best aggregation tool available to the data analyst today.  However sometimes when you aggregate your data,

A really great feature that was silently added into June update of the Power BI Desktop is a feature called View Native Query.  This feature is integrated into Power BI Query Editor and appears to …

When developing dashboards and reports for a large group of business users you want to make sure you deploy the right content at the right time. In this article we will look at an approach that all…

Last night at approximately 9:28 PM EST the June 2016 release of Power BI Desktop dropped, which you can download here.  The June update is pretty extensive and includes a bunch of new feature…

I’ve had this blog post in my mind to write for the past month or so and I’m finally just getting around to it while I’m waiting to board my flight back home. Check out my first 5 Power BI Tips her…

Update: My Power BI architecture diagram v3 is now available! Head over to here get the latest version! I finally finished putting together version 2 of my Power BI architecture diagram. I previous…

Today we are excited to announce that the Power BI service supports reports and dashboards with R visuals. This update extends Power BI service visuals with endless flexibility, and adds advanced analytics depth.

This month, Power BI Desktop has a few more improvements sprinkled across the board, as well as a preview of the new mapping control.

As you might heard SQL Server 2016 Developer Edition is free. In this article you learn how to download SQL Server 2016 Developer Edition for free legally.

Power BI and SQL Server Reporting Services 2016 in an entirely On-Premises Environment Jan. 17, 2017 – Another Update! The January release is a huge step toward realizing Power BI in an entirely On-Premises environment. In this technical preview, we see a few big improvements: Publishing Power BI reports directly to the SSRS Portal – With this glorious improvement,...

Pretty much every week, we saw one IT giant after another coming up with “open-source” frameworks for ML / Advanced Analytics. IBM most recently announced SystemML (http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_group.php?id=3174) – specializing on abstraction and model generation. Microsoft announced just 2 weeks ago: DMLT – Distributed Machine Learning Toolkit — http://www.dmtk.io/ Intel announced just before their TAP (Trusted Analytics Platform) – http://trustedanalytics.org/ – …

Power BI Embedded, add interactive Power BI reports into your business intelligence application

A recurring theme with customers and partners is Power BI data refresh. More specifically, there is some confusion on what refresh scenario requires a Pro version and what can be done with the Free…