Tag: BI

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Data is most valuable when it leads to informed action. Making it easier for people to get actionable insights is what Power BI is all about. Now, with Power BI Template Apps, users can immediately begin exploring, learning, and taking action on key data with off-the-shelf apps. Template Apps are integrated packages of pre-built Power BI dashboards and reports, configured to connect to specific data sources. With them, Microsoft partners can quickly access analytics for the apps and services they provide. Partners can also manage the Template Apps development ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Robert Dolan. Achieving and demonstrating success for these priorities requires moving from data collection to data insight by: Establishing baseline performance standards Determining what drives outcomes Evaluating impacts of course correction efforts (re: programs, services, policy shifts) and actions correlating with the principles of modern business analytics, below. Often this is described as a journey from descriptive and diagnostic analytics to predictive and prescriptive analytics. Gartner’s IT Glossary defines these types of analytics as follows: Descriptive Analytics is the examination of data or content, usually manually performed, to answer the question “What happened?” (or, “What is ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: James Baker. On February 7, 2019 we announced the general availability of Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2. Azure is now the only cloud provider to offer a no-compromise cloud storage solution that is fast, secure, massively scalable, cost-effective, and fully capable of running the most demanding production workloads. In this blog post we’ll take a closer look at the technical foundation of ADLS that will power the end to end analytics scenarios our customers demand. ADLS is the only cloud storage service that is purpose-built for big data analytics. It is designed to integrate ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Krishna Mamidipaka. Built-in machine learning (ML) models for anomaly detection in Azure Stream Analytics significantly reduces the complexity and costs associated with building and training machine learning models. This feature is now available for public preview worldwide both in the cloud and on IoT Edge. What is Azure Stream Analytics? Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed serverless PaaS offering on Azure that enables customers to analyze and process fast moving streams of data, and deliver real-time insights for mission critical scenarios. Developers can use a simple SQL language (extensible to include custom code) to ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Tom Wheeler. In the last few years, IT security threats to enterprise systems have increased, which has necessitated installing log ingestion and analysis solutions in any enterprise network. This blog post illustrates how Cloudera built its own scalable solution for log ingestion and analytics using Apache Spot and Cloudera Altus. By leveraging transient workloads in the cloud, Cloudera reduced the solution’s operational costs by 50% when compared to traditional, persistent cluster approaches. At Cloudera, the Infosec team needed to build a centralized log ingestion and analytical solution to monitor all key systems in the company ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We’re very grateful to our customers, our community members, and our partners for making Power BI what it is today. Thank you. The Power BI Team Get the 2019 Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms report* to learn more.   *This graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a larger research document and should be evaluated in the context of the entire document. The Gartner document is available upon request from Microsoft. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . For the third straight week, we’re delivering on the item I’ve heard more end-user feedback around than any other we’d promised to deliver in the October blogpost.  At long last, you and your users will be able to export their Power BI reports to either PDF or PowerPoint and have their selections on the screen be respected in the exported document!  Please note this feature is still rolling out to all regions and should be available everywhere by Feb 17th. Now, when you export to either PDF or PowerPoint, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . As part of our strategy to converge enterprise and self-service BI on Power BI as a single platform, we announced the public preview of incremental refresh last summer. While there is still more work to be done to get it to general availability, we have seen strong uptake of incremental refresh. Incremental refresh is a great example of how Power BI is modernizing/simplifying complex BI implementations. It enables incremental loading of new or changed data to a BI model without needing to reload the full set of data. This ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . January was a feature-filled month for the Power BI team! We kicked off this new year by announcing some of the highly requested features by our community and couldn’t have wished for a better start. We hope you’re just as excited for what’s to come for the rest of 2019! To recap, here’s a list of all the features we shipped last month: Secure-embed for Power BI reports We made it extremely easy for you to embed Power BI reports to internal sites within your organization. With the new ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rob Caron. Now in preview Account failover now in public preview for Azure Storage If you want to control storage account failover so that you can determine when storage account write access is required and the secondary replication state is understood, account failover for geo-redundant storage (GRS) enabled storage accounts is now available in preview. If the primary region for your geo-redundant storage account becomes unavailable for an extended period of time, you can force an account failover. As is the case with most previews, account failover should not be used with production workloads. There ... Read More