Category: Microsoft Power BI

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We’re excited to share all the new innovations we’re rolling out for Power BI to help make creating professional-grade apps even easier. Join us on October 1, 2020, from 9–11 AM Pacific Time (UTC -7), for this free digital event. You’ll learn how applied AI unifies and enriches your data. And find out how the updates coming in the next release of Microsoft business applications provide insights from every source of data to give holistic guidance, improve decision making, and enable your organization to automate repeatable outcomes at scale ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We are happy to announce that we have just released the September update for the On-premises data gateway (version 3000.58.6) September version of the mashup engine This month’s Gateway update also includes an updated version of the Mashup Engine, which will match the Power BI Desktop September update. This will ensure that the reports that you publish to the Power BI Service and refresh via the Gateway will go through the same query execution logic/run-time as in the latest Power BI Desktop version. .Net Framework Update The Gateway install ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Premium capacities are the best way your organization could leverage Power BI. They offer greater scale for any analytics project, unlock access to all features of Power BI including advanced AI and pixel perfect paginated reporting capabilities, provide free distribution and even licensing for on-premise usage. We have evolved the architecture with the 2nd generation of Power BI Premium.  With this, Gen 2 offers the below additional benefits: Ability to license Premium per user in addition to by capacity. Read this blog post to get more details. Enhanced performance ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Yesterday’s announcement around the introduction of a Premium per user license option has generated a lot of interest and excitement in the Power BI community. It has also generated a lot of questions, so we’ve put together this post to answer some of the most common ones we’ve seen. What is it? – Premium per user is a new way to license premium features on a per user basis. It will include all of the Pro license capabilities, along with features like paginated reports, AI, and other capabilities only ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . The way we work is changing dramatically. It’s more connected, collaborative, and often done remotely. Organizations need tools to help everyone infuse data into every decision. We’re excited to announce new Power BI integrations for Microsoft Teams to make it easier to discover and use data within your organization.   Note: This blog post covers capabilities that will be rolling out in the coming weeks, so they’re not yet available. Hold tight, they’re on their way to your organization.  These capabilities enable you to: Find and view data faster without leaving Teams Collaborate with your colleagues and share insights Foster a culture ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Welcome to Microsoft Ignite! The world has fundamentally changed in 2020. Individuals have had to adapt to working digitally and independently. Teamwork and collaboration are done entirely through screens and entire organizations have become remote work forces. “We’ve seen two years’ worth of digital transformation in two months. From remote teamwork and learning, to sales and customer service, to critical cloud infrastructure and security—we are working alongside customers every day to help them adapt and stay open for business in a world of remote everything.” Satya Nadella, Apr 29th, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Starting this month, we have merged the Power BI Desktop, Service and Mobile blogs, so there is one overview of everything that is new in this month. Many thanks to Sujata and Nikhil for owning the Desktop and Service/Mobile blogs! We are planning several other changes to the blog, so stay tuned. After 10 years, support for Windows 7 ended on January 14, 2020. In line with this, we will be stopping support for Power BI Desktop on Windows 7 on Jan 31st 2021. After that, Power BI Desktop ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Just four months ago we announced the deployment pipelines preview release. Today, we are excited to announce that deployment pipelines become GA, along with additional new features. Deployment pipelines helps enterprise BI teams build an efficient and reusable release process by maintaining development, test, and production environments. BI teams adopting deployment pipelines, will enjoy: Improved productivity Faster content updates delivery Reduced manual work and errors What’s new for Deployment pipelines? Incremental refresh support– As part of the GA release, deployment pipelines can manage datasets* configured with incremental refresh. On ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Many times we see users use PowerPoint, text boxes, interactive headers, or custom visuals to add narrative to their data.  All these options either lack interactive data, interactive and customizable text, or useful automatic insights. We are very excited to announce the preview of Smart narrative visual which can help you with this. The Smart narrative visualization helps you quickly summarize visuals and reports by providing relevant out-of-the-box insights that are customizable. Using this feature creators can add narratives to their report to address key takeaways, point out trends, edit the language, and format ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . In Power BI, our mission is to help our customers drive a data culture and make better decisions based on data. The Power BI Mobile & Devices team takes this mission beyond the standard data consumption experiences, and with the Power BI app for mixed reality, we enable workers to use data and make data driven decisions in an immersive hands-free environment. Today we’re releasing the next gen of the Power BI app for mixed reality. This app runs on HoloLens 2 and takes advantage of the amazing capabilities ... Read More