Season’s greetings, Power BI Community! As we wrap up an incredible year, the Microsoft Power BI team is taking a break for December. All planned updates will roll out in January including the next Power BI Desktop release. As we approach another year of innovation, let us take a moment to reflect on some key highlights from 2024.
Read moreThere are different ways to get data into Excel for use with Power BI. You can also get data from a bunch of different sources. You can use Excel Data Import, Power Query and Power Pivot to pull data in. Sometimes, you may receive errors when trying to…
» Read moreWelcome to the Power BI Support Blog! This blog will contain posts from the support technicians that work cases related to Power BI. These engineers come from different teams including SQL, Office and SharePoint support with a wide range of experience…
» Read moreGuest post by Kirk Chritton, Director of Product Innovation, MCH Strategic Data At MCH Strategic Data we’ve specialized in capturing, segmenting, and applying education and healthcare marketing data for our clients since 1928. In the early days…
» Read moreWith the holiday shopping craziness over, we wanted to use Power BI to analyze the last 5 years of research around Black Friday and Cyber Monday including spending, new trends in online shopping and the use of different devices. With Power Query we…
» Read moreWith less than 3 weeks to submit demos for the Power BI contest, we wanted to highlight the entries we’ve received so far and give everyone some final recommendations on what to include in yours, especially since the Q&A preview is now live…
» Read moreFollowing up on our Holiday post last week , we wanted to track Santa using Power Map! In this video you can find Santa’s official NORAD route around the world with more insights about some destinations and visitors to the official NORAD Santa…
» Read moreIn honor of the holiday today, one of loyal Excel and Power BI lovers, Santa Monica-based Excel Consultant Szilvia Juhasz belts out this Power Pivot/Excel version of the classic “Santa Baby”. Thanks to Mr. Excel, Bill Jelen for sharing this…
» Read moreAs we get closer and closer to the holidays, the Power BI team wanted to answer one of the most popular questions of all time: Where’s Santa now? Social media was the perfect source for answering question. We ran a search of the following terms…
» Read moreIn the December update of Power Query , we included a variety of new features including support for Dynamics CRM Online. This is an exciting addition to the data sources that Power Query can connect to and will allow Dynamics CRM Online customers to load…
» Read moreWe are excited to announce that any Power BI customer can now preview Q&A with their own data! In August we launched Q&A over a set of samples workbooks. Since then we’ve evaluated over 500,000 requests with the Q&A natural language…
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