Author: Will Thompson

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . ArcGIS for Power BI is a custom data visualization tool built within Power BI that brings mapping capabilities to your reports and dashboards. ArcGIS for Power BI is now available on Power BI Report Server. This functionality will enable all Esri Enterprise users who use Report Server to seamlessly use ArcGIS for Power BI. Not just that, it now supports Publish to Web and Power BI Embedded, enabling you to easily share your reports—with Esri maps—on a public website, an application you share with your customers, or an application ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Because of the current situation we wanted to thank everyone in the Power BI community for their patience and provide an update on our monthly release schedule for Power BI Desktop and the Power BI service. Let’s start with the Power BI Desktop April 2020 release – because of the current COVID-19 situation and keeping in mind we want to minimize any potential impact of changes in our products and services, we will be releasing this update next week on May 6th, the same day we are holding the ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Our business applications community is growing, so we needed a different venue, resulting in a new date and location for the Microsoft Business Applications Summit May 6–7, 2020 in Dallas, Texas. We hope to see you there! Everyone has data. Come to the Microsoft Business Applications Summit ­­­­ and unleash the potential. Meet other power users in your community and discover how business applications can help you tackle your business challenges and stay continuously proactive. Registration is open now, with a Pre-day opportunity on May 5th. Don’t miss out! Why you should ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Today we presented at the 5th annual Gartner BI Bake Off session at the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit in Orlando, Florida and we are very excited to share the report with everyone. The topic this year is loneliness data from the Kaiser Family Foundation and The Economist Same as last year, a little bit of background: Gartner organizes this event annually to allow the modern BI Magic Quadrant leaders to showcase their solutions around a timely topic. The concept of the bake-off is very straight forward. Vendors are asked to ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We love hearing feedback from the Power BI community and today we have another quarterly survey to keep improving Power BI (both the Desktop and Service) with your feedback. This survey helps us to understand what we're doing well, and what we can change to make your experience even better. This is a great opportunity to provide feedback directly to the product team and influence our development directly. In addition, if you take the survey by 5 p.m. PST on Dec 7th, you will be entered for a chance ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . In the April update of Power BI Desktop we added the ability to import and export the linguistic schema for your model. When you ask Q&A a question it tries to parse your question and identify the nouns, verbs, adjectives, and other elements of the question. In the linguistic schema you tag columns in the table as different grammatic elements to help it do this, and define words that a users might use to phrase a question. For instance, you state the columns that are the subject and the ... Read More