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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…

I am not trying to take Microsoft out of business, but after I read on the Power BI team’s blog that the anomaly detection feature was coming, I decided to see if I could implement something …

As the name suggests, a multi-kpi comparator allows you to compare multiple KPIs or measures on the same chart. This way you can dramatically reduce the clutter on your Power BI report page. You ca…

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 …

Speed up Power BI report performance by reducing the number of visuals on a page

As a Power BI developer I know how Power Query makes it easy to get data from web sources, but I also know there are limits to what it can do. I can get data from tables on web pages, I can get dat…

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.

Compare DAX and M formulas in Visual Studio Code is really easy with the help of Power BI Sidetools. As it is possible to transfer DAX and M formulas from Power BI desktop to files and to open them in Visual Studio Code, it is possible to compare two files. That’s extremely useful in many cases. Y...

#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.

A Date table in Power BI can have a smaller number of columns by leveraging custom format strings to adequately control the chart visualization and the sort

September 2020 gateway release

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 …

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 …

It is only a week ago when I posted the icon library for diagrams.net, also known as draw.io, wrote a blog about it and shared with all of you. Now it is already time to give it the first update! A…

It’s been a while that I am working with OData data source in Power BI. One challenge that I almost always do not have a good understanding of the underlying data model. It can be really hard and time consuming if there is no one in the business that understands the underlying data model. I … Continue reading Quick Tips: OData Feed Analyser Custom Function in Power Query

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.

Starting this month, we have merged the Power BI Desktop, Service and Mobile blogs so there is one overview of everything that is new in this month. For now, let us get started because we have exciting updates this month! Amongst others, in the analytics area, we introduce a preview of the Smart narratives visual which helps you quickly summarize visuals and reports by providing relevant out-of-the-box insights which is customizable. On the reporting side, several things are added, including the introduction of controls for the z-order of visuals, and searching for a workspace during publis...

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

The Power BI administrator role is a high-privilege role which should be carefully managed. As with many aspects of administration and governance, this involves having a balance between people being able to get things done and risk of when too many people having elevated permissions. This post &

Working with a Golden Dataset in Power BI is considered as a best practice. But how to proceed if you decide to split up dataset and reports later?

The ‘new look’ of the Power BI service is evolving again based on your feedback during public preview…

Recently, Dave Ruijter posted a blog about a library containing all the Azure Icons. He shared all icons in his GitHub repository which allows you to directly connect it to the tool Diagrams.net (p…

Recently, I have presented a webinar about Driving a data culture in your organization. During this webinar, I presented what challenges you might face, what mistakes are made often and what you ca…