This month’s update highlights several exciting preview features and an important action-required item for Power BI users. In preview, you’ll find updates to visual calculations, enhancements to numeric range and field parameters, both designed to offer greater flexibility and analytical power within your reports.
Read moreNintex, a Microsoft ISV partner, creates point-and-click workflow automation software to tackle everything from basic business functions to company-wide processes with a few clicks – not code.
» Read moreToday, I am happy to announce that Azure Stream Analytics jobs will be able to output to Power BI streaming datasets. In turn, you will be able to create streaming tiles based on Stream Analytics output. This new functionality will enable the top feature requests that we’ve received for Stream Analytics outputs, including…
» Read moreTo help our Armed Forces Veterans looking to improve their resume or the work-displaced find their next career, PowerPivotPro and Microsoft are teaming up to provide a near-free day of training on Data Analytics with Power BI. To register please see: https://avisingh.eventbrite.com
» Read morePASS Summit 2016 happened a couple of weeks ago in Seattle, Washington, and the Power BI team made a lot of exciting announcements! This week, Guy in a Cube has a round-up of the big news, and gives some additional context to product updates for Power BI together with Reporting Services and Analysis Services.
» Read moreAsk the experts at Microsoft and find out if the visual design of your work is helping to project your data story, or just creating confusion. Attend the live webinar on November 17, 2016 to see how our Power BI pros turn dashboards and reports from standard to shiny, sharing insights more efficiently and making a bigger impact on your audience. If you want to learn more about dashboard and report design, with or without a submission of your own, register now for the Dashboard Makeover webinar!
» Read moreThis month, we are happy to introduce a number of great improvements for the Power BI mobile apps, including improved navigation experience and enhancements to notifications. See all the updates from October for Power BI Mobile apps for iOS, Android, and Windows 10.
» Read moreLast month we put out the call for spooky-themed submissions — along with other topics that interest you — to the Data Stories Gallery, and we got some fantastic entries! Congratulations to the grand winner and six runners-up. November’s inspiration is “custom visuals”: show us a great data story using your own custom visuals or those in our Visuals Gallery.
» Read moreHave you seen the announcement about Microsoft Teams, the new chat-based workspace in Office 365? Check it out!
» Read moreA lot of people think the Power BI team is strictly focused on the visualization of data, but actually Power BI sits within a larger organization called Business Application Platform Innovation (BAPI) whose charter is to not just make data actionable through visualization, but also to simplify the automation and acquisition of that data. To that end the team has built Microsoft PowerApps for acquisition and Microsoft Flow for automation. On November 7, 2016, we’ll be hosting a webinar to announce Microsoft Flow General Availability. In this webinar, Group Program Manager Stephen Siciliano will show how Microsoft Flow is an easy-to-use product that helps you set up automated workflows between your favorite apps and services. You can synchronize files, get notifications, collect data, and much more. For preview customers already familiar with Microsoft Flow, Stephen will also cover the changes for release and how you can take advantage of using Microsoft Flow for production applications.
» Read moreThere’s been a lot of Power BI news lately around R Visuals, but if you’ve never used them before you may not be sure how to get started. This week, Guy in a Cube shows you how to take advantage of the new R Script showcase to explore possibilities and start interacting with your data through R.
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