Category: Microsoft Power BI

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Earlier this month, we announced our new What If feature in the Power BI Desktop. Many of you have been anticipating this feature for a while now, and we wanted to celebrate this release in style! So today we are excited to announce our What If Report Contest! For this contest, we want you to show us your most creative and fun uses of What If parameters in a Power BI report. We’re looking for that crazy dataset or a cool unexpected use for parameters. Tap into your creative ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . The August update for the On-premises data gateway is now available. This update includes the following improvements: Support for IBM Netezza connector Default to TLS 1.1/1.2 Increased timeout for On-Premises data gateway requests Updated version of the Mashup Engine You can download this new version following this link and continue reading below for more details about each enhancement. Support for IBM Netezza connector The IBM Netezza connector available in Power BI Desktop since June is now also supported by the On-premises data gateway. This support includes the ability to ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We’ve decided to start posting regularly to our dedicated community of developers in a monthly post. We’ll gather all the news, tips and tricks, canonical scenarios, and best practices for developers who are integrating, enhancing or embedding Power BI. We’d love to hear back from you, to make sure we’re providing you the most relevant info we can. Power BI Embedded For any of you who missed our MDIS presentation on Power BI Embedded, I’d like to highlight the main goals we achieved with the June release: A single ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We are pleased to announce the Public preview of the Visio custom visual for Power BI. The Visio custom visual will allow you to visualize data using Microsoft Visio diagrams from within Power BI dashboards and reports. Any Power BI user can add Visio custom visual from the store (get it from the store) to start using this capability right away. With Visio, you can create illustrative diagrams, such as interconnected workflows and real-world layouts, to pursue operational intelligence. Using Visio and Power BI together, you can illustrate and compare ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We are excited to announce support for ‘bring your own entities’ for the Bing News solution template! The Bing News template allows brand managers to find articles most relevant to them by filtering on sentiment, trending topics as well as entities like locations, organizations and people (learn more about the Bing News template). One of the most common feature requests we received was the ability to define your own list of words and use that to slice your data. A product manager may want to e.g. create a list ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Today we are excited to announce the release of the Power BI solution template for Azure Activity Logs. This template provides analytics on top of your Activity Log in the Azure Portal. Gain insight into the activities performed by various resources and people in your subscription. Get started with historical analysis on your last 90 days of Activity Log data, and let an Azure SQL database accumulate these historical events in addition to incoming events. Getting Started The first part of our experience is an installer that guides you ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . The Customer Data and Analytics (CDnA) team at Microsoft enables strategic data insights that shape the entire organization, from high-level leadership policies to small product decisions. At its core, CDnA creates and monitors indicators, known as “Power Metrics,” for some of the key divisions and businesses in Microsoft. CDnA delivers Power BI dashboards to several teams, including the Windows and Devices Group (WDG), Office, Bing, Cortana and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s Senior Leadership Team (SLT). The SLT leverages the Power BI dashboards to monitor progress on strategic initiatives at ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . July was yet another fantastic month for Power BI! We celebrated our second birthday with you and continued to work hard to deliver a great set of features across Power BI service and mobile. Here’s a quick recap in case you missed it amid all the celebrations: Dashboard email subscriptions Staying up-to-date on changes to critical data just got even better. In addition to report pages, we added the email subscription feature for dashboards in Power BI service. Just head over to any dashboard, hit the Subscribe icon, select how ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . The wait is over. PowerApps and Power BI can play together, regardless of who’s hosting!  We already showed you how you can embed your app inside a Power BI dashboard. Now with the new Power BI tile control, you can show your Power BI tiles inside your app. Why is this big news? Power BI is a powerful analysis and visualization tool. PowerApps is great at enabling people to take action on the web and mobile. Now you can build apps that give users great insight and let them ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Today, Power BI is two years old! When we released the new Power BI service, Power BI Desktop, and Power BI Mobile on July 24, 2015, we knew we had an innovative business intelligence solution, but we didn't expect to create such an inspiring community of data and reporting professionals. Over the last year we've continued to add new features, improve existing tools, and integrate even better with our fellow Microsoft products, while maintaining the same commitment to quality. Since its release, Power BI has "grown like wildfire", in ... Read More