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 moreToday we’re launching a series called “Meet our Finalists” so you can get a closer look into what motivates these Power BI rock stars to keep pushing self-service analytics to the limit. Our first finalist is Carlos Costa, creator…
» Read morePower BI for Office 365 makes it easier than ever to find the story in your data and help your spreadsheets express themselves in surprising new ways. Watch this new video to see how you can “Express Your Cells” and turn your data points into a powerful…
» Read moreLast time, we gave you the best case scenario for Q&A against a “raw” data import. However, in order to successfully understand the large swath of questions it is capable of interpreting, Q&A makes a number of fundamental assumptions…
» Read moreGuest Post by Kay Unkroth Power BI supports PowerPivot data models of any version. Users can choose between SQL Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2012 PowerPivot for Excel 2010 or simply use the latest PowerPivot version directly integrated with Excel 2013…
» Read moreCarnegie Mellon University (CMU) is one of the world’s leading research institutions with a reputation for developing innovative technologies. The University’s Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics looks for ways to improve energy…
» Read moreLast month, we released Power BI for Office 365, our cloud-based business intelligence service that gives people a powerful new way to work with data in the tools they use every day – Excel and Office 365. We continue to add capabilities to Power…
» Read moreMove over Winter Olympics at Sochi—it’s time for the 86 th Academy Awards! While we roll out the red carpet, what better time to step behind the scenes and into Microsoft Power BI to create some visual effects on the most significant movie…
» Read moreIntroduction By now, you’ve probably seen a demo of Power BI Q&A and may have played with one of our sample models. So at this point, you’re probably thinking one of two things: Either you’re amazed by how smart the system is…
» Read moreUpdate: Learn more about Power Map Today, with Office Service Pack 1 , we’re announcing that moving forward Power Map will now be native to Excel. No longer a preview add-in, Power Map can now be found on the “Insert” tab in Excel…
» Read moreEverybody loves a good story, but only some of us love data. Even so, an insight worth having is an insight worth sharing, so how do we share our data insights with people who don’t love data? Telling a story is a great way to share data insights…
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