Your manager wants to see a report on your latest sales figures combined with your last campaign impressions by the end of the day. But the latest data resides on various third party systems and on files in your laptop. In the past it’s taken hours…
» Read moreIt’s only been a few weeks since we announced our GA release and shipped lots of new features , but we’re very glad to announce another update to Power BI Desktop. As we mentioned to you in previous blog posts, GA is only the beginning and…
» Read moreThe Three V’s. People who know Big Data will talk about volume, velocity and variety – it’s a useful way to characterize both the benefits and challenges of Big Data. Let’s get you familiar with these terms, and how you can harness…
» Read moreNote: This information is good as of 8/11/2015 and is subject to change! I had discussed part of this topic as it related to Excel Workbooks with the old Power BI service, but I wanted to refresh that and talk about the concept of the Data Model and highlight…
» Read moreSo you start your day with a quad shot Americano, end up dreaming about countless Excel documents and spend just as much time digging through piles of data as you do scrubbing for insights… Sound familiar? Looks like you may be a business analyst…
» Read moreby James Phillips, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Business Intelligence Products Group Today is an exciting milestone, as we release the new Power BI service and Power BI Desktop . When I first unveiled our GA date earlier this month, I emphasized…
» Read moreEarlier this month, James Philips Corporate Vice President of Power BI announced Power BI 2.0 General Availability on July 24. With only two days to go, now is a great time to provide more detail on some of the changes you will see on July 24 and what…
» Read moreWith Power BI’s imminent GA release we’re excited to announce a number of new capabilities to the service. Team collaboration Power BI groups offer a powerful collaborative experience built on Office 365 groups . Groups in Power BI bring…
» Read moreToday we announced that Power BI will be generally available July 24 th . Through the course of the preview we have added many exciting new features and capabilities, a full list is here at the bottom of this blog post. In July we will make the updates…
» Read moreOver the last four months we’ve been adding support for new SaaS services in Power BI, on a weekly basis, providing users with rich, out of the box dashboards and reports in just a few clicks! As we continue this release cadence we wanted to make…
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