Tag: BI

Feed: James Serra's Blog. Author: James Serra. With Power BI continuing to get many great new features, including the latest in Datamarts (see my blog Power BI Datamarts), I’m starting to hear customers ask “Can I just build my entire enterprise data warehouse solution in Power BI”? In other words, can I just use Power BI and all its built-in features instead of using Azure Data Lake Gen2, Azure Data Factory (ADF), Azure Synapse, Databricks, etc? The short answer is “No”. First off, as far as Datamarts, I do not recommend using this new capability as a compete or replacement ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Welcome to the June 2022 update. We are excited to announce the general availability of the new Format Pane, error bars and information protection updates, table navigation improvements, Connect to datamarts and Power BI Data Storytelling features. There is more to explore, please continue to read on. Reporting Modeling Data connectivity and preparation Service Embedded Analytics Developers Visualizations Other Check out the video below for this month’s summary:    New Format Pane The new format pane is now generally available! This has also been shipped to the PBI Service. Thank ... Read More

Feed: James Serra's Blog. Author: James Serra. As mentioned in my previous blog about the Microsoft Build event announcements, the biggest news was Power BI Datamarts. This is a new self-service capability included with Power BI Premium (premium capacity or per user) that enables users to uncover actionable insights through their own data without any help from IT teams. You can quickly and easily build a relational database for analytics using no-code experiences for workloads up to 100GB. Think of a datamart as a mini data warehouse for a department. It is a combined data prep and model authoring experience ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We’re excited to move Enhanced refresh with the Power BI REST API (formerly asynchronous refresh) from public preview to general availability in Power BI Premium, Power BI Premium per User, and Power BI Embedded. As noted in the public preview announcement, this feature not only eliminates the need for synchronous client connections to perform a refresh, but also unlocks enterprise-grade refresh capabilities. It’s a significant improvement over the standard refresh REST API in Power BI. By using the enhanced refresh REST API, you can leverage built in features for ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . As part of our GA work for the ExecuteQueries REST API, we delivered a new Power Automate action to run queries against Power BI datasets. This action delivers a straightforward low-code/no-code experience to BI users who want to streamline repetitive, mundane tasks and processes. You can conveniently select the desired workspace and dataset in the user interface, paste your DAX query into the query textbox, and automate away! That’s it! You don’t need to know anything about the REST API. You don’t even need to know DAX to get ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We’re excited to bring you a new version of Power BI Report Server this Spring! With the May 2022 update, we have a variety of new enhancements, including Dynamic format strings support, multi row card selection, canvas zoom, updated slicer defaults and many more. Please continue to read on! Here’s a complete list of the updates: Reporting Other Dynamic format strings now supported for all chart elements Reports with AS data sources can provide dynamic format strings, or cell-level formatting, to customize the formatting of their data. Reports with ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . It’s that time of year again—welcome back to Microsoft Build. Microsoft Build represents the ultimate developer event. A hundred thousand developers from across the world gather for three days with their peers to learn, engage, and collaborate on the latest innovations and tools from Microsoft. With over three million active developers on Microsoft Power BI creating incredible data experiences every day, we want to use this event to show you the truly exciting innovations we are bringing to Power BI. These announcements include: Datamart in Power BI Metrics in ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Today, Arun Ulagaratchagan, CVP Intelligence Platform announced the preview of datamart in Power BI.  Datamart in Power BI is a new self-service capability included with Power BI Premium that enables users to uncover actionable insights through their own data without any help from IT teams. For the first time, we are empowering everyone with the right-sized ability to build a relational database for analytics using no code experiences for workloads up to 100GB, without compromising enterprise security and governance demands.  This new out-of-the box capability that is fully managed ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Data culture is about putting data into the hands of business users who need data and insights in decision making. When the same users need to drive a conversation and enable decision making, they usually use PowerPoint presentation to lead that conversation. However, while the data in Power BI is up to date, live, and interactive – when it’s usually added to the presentation in the form of screen captures, stripped of interactivity, and doesn’t update. As a result, it’s up to you to manually create new screenshots to ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We are excited to announce general availability for metrics in Power BI (feature formerly known as ‘goals’) along with a ton of new features to make scorecarding in Power BI even more effective. Additionally, we’re pleased to share plans for how Power BI will work with the new Viva Goals offering from Microsoft to empower organizations to more effectively meet their goals with OKR experiences connected to Power BI data, delivered by Viva Goals. With Power BI metrics, we’ve enabled organizations to define, curate, and track business metrics and KPIs ... Read More