Category: Microsoft Power BI

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Don’t Miss the Power BI Team at Data & BI Summit, held 24-26 April in Dublin, Ireland. From 24-26 April, the Convention Centre in Dublin, Ireland, will be taken over by Business Analysts, Data Professionals & Power BI users from all over Europe for Data & BI Summit. Data & BI Summit is a peer-to-peer focused conference dedicated to end user education and networking. Hosted by The Power BI User Group (PUG) this inaugural event will feature instructional sessions, showcases, and how-to's, specialized to meet the needs of Data ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . On tax day this year USAFacts is relying on Power BI to publish a 10-k report to provide a comprehensive view of the combined US federal, state and local governments’ revenues and expenditures. The data is collected from multiple government sources including the US Treasury Department, the Office of Management and Budget, the US Census Bureau, and the Federal Reserve. The USAFacts team used Power BI to quickly and efficiently build interactive data visualizations that could be published directly to the web, without writing any code. Visitors to the ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Microsoft Build is returning to Seattle in May. Build is the ultimate annual Microsoft developer event, where the most innovative minds in tech meet under one roof to get inspired, create tomorrow, and code the future. The conference takes place May 7–9, 2018, at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, Washington. The Microsoft Business Application Platform allows you to customize, extend, and build all the apps you need. Build with PowerApps or on top of Dynamics 365 or Power BI to transform the way business gets done and ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . You asked, and we built it! Now in Power BI Mobile app you can continue to analyze your data and gain even more insights by using drill down and drill up in your report’s visuals.New tooltip experienceTo enable drill down and up, we rebuilt and improved our tooltip experience, and built into it the infrastructure for drill down/up. The new tooltip is screen wide, and allows scrubbing, so you can drag your finger across the visual to explore details about each data point along the way more easily.   Drill ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . March turned out to be another exciting and busy month for Power BI. We rolled out some highly anticipated features in the service and continued to make progress with many more that are set to release soon. Worried you missed something? Fear not! Here’s a recap of all the features and announcements we made last month: We’ve now made it incredibly easier for report consumers to pick up right where left off in the Power BI service and mobile. All Power BI reports will now automatically retain the filters, ... 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

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Do you know someone looking for an opportunity to work in a world class team that is building a disruptive cloud-first business intelligence platform? Power BI is a business analytics service to help users understand data and share insights. When Satya Nadella talks about how Microsoft helps customers build a data culture, he's talking about Power BI. Power BI was built from the ground up to take advantage of inherent advantages of the cloud, including a freemium business model, user engagement built into the core of the product, and ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Load Testing Power BI Applications with Visual Studio Load Test In today’s cloud-centric and security-aware culture, proper capacity testing and application optimization is often complex and daunting. This is especially true with many of Microsoft’s SaaS offerings, like Power BI Premium. There are a number of tools available to help with functional testing and user acceptance testing, but none of these are designed to apply the necessary load for stressing the services. The proper way to handle driving load against these services is by using a protocol level traffic ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . This month, on top of our normal of visual & data connector improvements, we have two exciting features that lets report consumers interact with reports in a new way. The Q&A Explorer enables report consumers to ask their own questions about the data, and buttons let you add interactive elements on your reports. Don’t forget you can now get Power BI Desktop from the Windows Store if you’re running Windows 10! Here’s the complete list of April updates: Reporting Analytics Custom visuals Data connectivity For a summary of the ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Practical DAX for Power BI wtih Phil Seamark Walk through of using DAX to create, shape and model data, highlighting helpful tips and tricks. DAX stands for Data Analysis Expressions, and it is the formula language used throughout Power BI (it is also used by Power BI behind the scenes). DAX is also found in other offerings from Microsoft, such as Power Pivot and SSAS Tabular, but this collection of Guided Learning topics focuses on how DAX is used – and can be used by you – in Power ... Read More