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 →

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…

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

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…

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...

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”

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 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…

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

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

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…

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”

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

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

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 ...

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.

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…

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…

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”

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…

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

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…

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.

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

Today, we’re excited to announce that Power BI is making it easier for Azure AD B2B Guest users to collaborate with colleagues across organizational boundaries. Rolling out to production this week is a new capability that allows external Guest users to edit and manage content in workspaces, get the full home experience, and to do … Continue reading “Azure AD B2B Guest users can now edit and manage content in Power BI to collaborate better across organizations”

We are happy to announce the General Availability (GA) of Multi Geo for Power BI Premium! With Multi Geo going GA, you can extend your Power BI tenant to store your users’ data in the geographies covered in the Microsoft Trust Center, except for Power BI Germany, Power BI China operated by 21Vianet or Power … Continue reading “Announcing Power BI Multi Geo General Availability”

In modern BI projects, understanding the flow of data from the data source to its destination is a key challenge for many customers.

With sophisticated models and scalable compute, Artificial Intelligence becomes a realistic tool for data analysts. Power BI helps you get insights from your data. Now, with access to a set of models from Azure Cognitive Services and your custom models in Azure ML, you can easily enrich those insights with AI. Cognitive services in Power BI gives you access … Continue reading “Easy access to AI in Power BI (Preview)”