Tag: BI

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rob Caron. Now in preview Announcing the public preview of Windows Container Support in Azure App Service - Windows Server Containers in Web App are now available in public preview. Azure App Service provides pre-defined application stacks on Windows like ASP.NET or Node.js, running on IIS. The preconfigured Windows environment locks down the operating system from administrative access, software installations, changes to the global assembly cache, and so on. If your application requires more access than the preconfigured environment allows, you can deploy a custom Windows container instead. Azure App Service caches several parent images ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . If you are following the Power BI blog on a regular basis, you probably have noticed the Power BI APIs and cmdlets announcement for administrators, which introduced a set of APIs and cmdlets to work with workspaces, dashboards, reports, datasets, and so forth in Power BI. But there is much more to this than could be covered in a brief announcement. For starters, the management cmdlets are not just for administrators; they are also for Power BI users and developers. This article takes a closer look to show you ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Devki Trivedi, Serena Davis, Pascal Habineza. This blog post was co-authored by Devki Trivedi, Serena Davis, and Pascal Habineza. The Cosmos DB Explorer Interns are excited to release a reference solution that utilizes the Azure Cosmos DB Change Feed feature (+ Azure Functions, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Stream Analytics, Power BI). This solution features a hands-on lab that guides users through the entire pipeline: from uploading data onto Cosmos DB to implementing a Change Feed trigger to visualizing that data in a meaningful way on Power BI. With this reference solution, businesses can: Track sales ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Vincent Granville. Monday newsletter published by Data Science Central. Previous editions can be found here. The contribution flagged with a + is our selection for the picture of the week. Featured Resources and Technical Contributions Comparison of the Most Useful Text Processing APIs + A Comparative Analysis of Top 6 BI and Data Visualization Tools  Using Uncertainty to Interpret your Model  Recommendations and User-Profiling from Implicit Feedbacks  Machine Learning with C++ - Classification with Dlib  Top 15 Scala Libraries for Data Science  10 Best Big Data Analytics Courses Online  How to Stay up-to-date ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Vincent Granville. Join the largest community of machine learning (ML), deep learning, AI, data science, business analytics, BI, operations research, mathematical and statistical professionals: Sign up here. If instead, you are only interested in receiving our newsletter, you can subscribe here. There is no cost. The full membership includes, in addition to the newsletter subscription: Access to member-only pages, our free data science eBooks, data sets, code snippets, and solutions to data science / machine learning / mathematical challenges. Support to all your questions regarding our community. Data sets, projects, cheat sheets, tutorials, programming ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Bringing all Power Platform community together for collaboration, networking and hands-on learning opportunities You're invited to join Microsoft at Power Summit Phoenix, held October 15-18 in Phoenix, AZ at the Phoenix Convention Center. Hosted by the Power Platform User Groups, this inaugural event blends special access to Microsoft leadership with credible peer-to-peer knowledge exchange. Power Summit sessions are specialized to meet the needs of Business Users, Analysts, Administrators and Developers. Access to the Team Members of the Flow, PowerApps and Power BI will all be at Power Summit in ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Today we are excited to announce the release of the Power BI Performance Management solution template for Azure Application Insights. This release brings comprehensive telemetry data into the growing suite of Power BI monitoring solutions including the Azure Activity Log Analytics template. All you need to get started is an Azure subscription with an existing Application Insights instance. Behind the scenes, in a matter of minutes, our installer will configure and provision all the resources required to deliver your Application Insights monitoring analytics on top of Power BI’s visualization ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Matthew Gierc. (This post originally appeared here)  In a data-driven world, it’s odd that gut instinct still plays such a big part in business decisions. But why isn’t surprising: Not only do businesses have more data than they can handle, but they’re also using a tool never designed to gather BI (Business Intelligence) in the first place. That tool is Excel; approximately “1 in 5 businesses are using spreadsheets as the main tool to commu...according to Bernard Mar (Forbes). Excel is a great tool for certain business requirements, but gathering and ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Igor Bobriakov. Image credit: tinydesignr.com Nowadays, there is a huge list of powerful visualization tools to help you illustrate your ideas, visualize your data, make it talk, share your significant analytics with customers and the global community. In this article, we will compare the most commonly used platforms and analyze their main features to help you choose one or several platforms that will provide indispensable aid for your work communication. It is often hard to separate the facts from fiction when evaluating various business intelligence (BI) tools, as every BI vendor markets ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Olivier Bloch. Whether you’re looking for in-the-moment insights or long-term trends, the value of information is only as good as its usefulness for your business. Some information must be acted upon immediately, but it can also be stored for long-term, big-picture analysis of trends over time. For each case there are different tools to use, and Azure IoT has you covered. Near real-time data analysis Azure Stream Analytics is a pay-as-you-go service that ingests data from a variety of sources. In addition to real-time data from IoT Hub, it can also take in historical data ... Read More