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You might have read in our previous blog post that Microsoft were invited to take part in the Gartner Data and Analytics summit’s “Bakeoff” competition. We wanted to give you all a feel…

Today, we’re pleased to announce the release of a new version of Power BI Report Server that contains several new features customers have been anxiously waiting for, including bookmarking, syncing sli…

Waking up and getting the info that there is a new version of Power BI Report Server available.. I like those days.. :-) The announcement post lists the improvements that are added to this new vers…

It's time again for the March Madness tournament and another excellent opportunity to introduce/teach people at your company/organization about Power BI. This article explains one approach for doing March Madness Power BI style, and using everyone's bracket data to teach critical concepts on queries (unpivot, index

There are a lot of articles floating around the internet comparing Power BI to Tableau (and vice versa) and the last year has definitely seen a spike in the interest for the same. The interest is j…

All robust platform can have a daunting data structure. With some, and in certain situations, you might not directly care about the intricacies. But if you are looking to create reports and visuali…

This paper offers guidance on capacity planning for Power BI Report Server by sharing results of load test executions of various workloads.

I found that if I load by CSVs into Azure Data Lake Store I can use Azure Data Lake Analytics to choose the data I need and push that out to a new CSV. This new CSV should be below that 1GB limit anad therefore I can use ADLS as my Power Bi data source. If the 1GB limit is reach I can split out ...

We are happy to announce the preview of the Model-Driven Apps within PowerApps. PowerApps is the platform on which Dynamics 365 apps are natively built. Model-driven apps provides a no-code or low-code component approach to app development.

Many Power BI announcements are included in the Dynamics 365 Spring 2018 Release Notes (free download): A Look Back at the Look Ahead to 2018 I have a few thoughts on four of these announcements (…

Parameters are a very nice example of getting more dynamic into your Power Query for building your Power BI datasets. Until recently, the configuration of parameters published to powerbi.com was a …

Since mid-2017, it’ possible to write your own custom data connectors. This feature offers the opportunity to encapsulate more difficult or technical code into a data connector and distribute it to…

Dataset Parameters are a way to bring some sort of dynamic into your Power Query datamodelling in Power BI. For my blog post about Modifying Parameter values in powerbi.com I was looking for a way to …

Microsoft Business Applications Summit 2018 Seattle, WA July 22-24. Event for business and technical leaders to find out how to get the most out of Dynamics 365, Power BI and other Microsoft Business Applications.

There are many important measures in the realm of data analytics and visualization. Some of which are very well known, e.g. mean, correlation, variance, standard deviations. While some of these are very straight forward and can be done quickly in Power BI, there are some that just need the extra

Yesterday a friend asked for a little help getting started with Power BI. He’s a DBA and system administrator, and wanted to cut his teeth with Power BI with a really simple dashboard-style s…

This blog post covers the latest updates for Power BI Developers community- Power BI Embedded and Custom Visuals.

We are excited to announce that we have just released the March update for the On-premises data gateway. Here are some of the things that we would like to highlight with this month’s release: The…

“First Impressions” Business Applications 2018 Update Virtual Launch Event I had the opportunity to watch the Spring Launch event, and while there is a lot of the Dynamics space that I don’t know a lot about, there was plenty of things I did find exciting. If you weren’t able to catch it, you can ...

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This month, on top of our normal of visual & data connector improvements, we have two exciting features that lets report consumers interact with reports in a new way. The Q&A Explorer enables report c…