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Power BI November 2024 Feature Summary

Welcome to the November 2024 update. We’re thrilled to introduce Copilot in Power BI Mobile apps, bringing AI to your fingertips for a smarter, faster way to explore data on the go. This month’s update also includes a new Path layer for the Azure Map visual, making geospatial analysis even more powerful by helping you easily map connections between multiple locations. We’re also introducing the OneLake catalog, the latest evolution of the OneLake data hub, offers a unified platform for data engineers, data scientists, analysts, and decision-makers to browse, manage, and govern data seamlessly—all from one intuitive interface.

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Explore your K2 Process Analytics Data with Power BI

With K2’s business process application platform, organizations can use visual designers to rapidly build and deploy low-code applications that are agile, scalable and reusable, resulting in modern processes that quickly and easily connect people, data, decisions, and systems. K2’s integration partnership with Microsoft Power BI is an important augment to what K2 has already enabled for reporting natively within the K2 Appit for SharePoint platform. Through this integration, you can intuitively and visually analyze the effectiveness of their workflows and gain actionable insights into key business processes.

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Embed Dashboards in Your Applications to Monitor Your Business in Context

Power BI dashboards are optimized to monitor the status of your business at a glance. Business applications are optimized to manage your business. Wouldn’t it be great if you could monitor your business in the right context of a business application and, for example, see your customer profitability analysis from within your CRM application? You can do that! We have recently enabled embedding Power BI dashboards into your business applications, allowing you to stay focused on your work while still monitoring familiar Power BI dashboards.

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March 2 Webinar: Inventory optimization with Neal Analytics and Microsoft

Delight customers by carrying the right products on every shelf! To stay competitive, retail and consumer packaged goods companies need to apply complex business intelligence (BI) to their SKU portfolio. For some, this kind of advanced sales analysis is out of reach. Fortunately, new tools are making new sales goals possible. Join this webinar on March 2, 2017 to learn more!

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Power BI mobile apps feature summary – February 2017

Earlier this month we introduced the preview of Q&A for Power BI iOS app, and while we’ve received amazing feedback so far, we’d still love to hear from you in the Power BI community thread. Speaking of previews, with this release we are happy to announce that the Power BI app for Android tablets is now available globally! Thank you for your feedback during preview. Read on to learn about more new capabilities and improvements to the Power BI mobile app for all platforms.

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Tech Tip Thursday: Connecting from Power BI Mobile to SSRS

Microsoft’s Guy in a Cube has been providing tips and tricks for Power BI and Business Intelligence on his YouTube channel since 2014. On Thursdays we highlight a different helpful video from his collection. This week, Guy in a Cube shows you how to configure Active Directory Federated Services (ADFS) and the Web Application Proxy (WAP) role in Windows 2016, so that you can connect from Power BI mobile to SQL Server Reporting Services using OAuth.

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Power BI, Flow, and PowerApps Webinars for February 23 – April 6

If you haven’t attended one of the free Business Application Platform webinars, the intent is to offer world-class best practices, giving you not just insight into your data but also into how to automate your data and save time in a medium that’s easy to consume. Check out these upcoming 11 free webinars on how to action, automate, and gain insight from your data!

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Congratulations to this month’s Featured Data Stories Gallery submissions

Last month we put out the call for submissions using free public datasets — along with other topics that interest you — for the Data Stories Gallery, and we got some fantastic entries! Congratulations to the grand winner and runners-up. The inspiration topic for this month is: mapping! We want to see your best reports that involve maps and geographic data.

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