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 moreWhether you’re an independent consultant or part of a larger firm, there’s one skill that’s critical for every consultant: communication skills. Tools like Power BI’s shared dashboards makes it easier than ever to share and sync real-time information on data analysis, status updates, and more, in a way that encourages finding insights while protecting your hard work.
» Read moreOne year ago, on July 24, 2015, we released the new Power BI service and Power BI Desktop as an innovative cloud-based business intelligence solution. Happy Birthday to Power BI!
» Read moreYou’ve set up Power BI with a managed tenant, and now it’s time to add users! In this week’s Tech Tip Thursday, Guy in a Cube looks at different options for Power BI license assignment, from the Office 365 Admin portal to PowerShell. He also gives a quick overview of the different types of licenses available.
» Read moreIn this webinar, active local Seattle Power BI User Group leader David Brown will show us how Predictive Analytics is being used in a large consumer goods company and a school district, combining the simple, scalable, cutting-edge power of Azure Machine Learning with the simple, usable, interface of Power BI to drive organizational improvements.
» Read moreThe dataset API was the first REST API that we ever released for Power BI. It allowed a developer to programmatically create a simple dataset and then push data directly to a table within that dataset. Today, we are pleased to announce the preview of two new features that will enhance the way that data can be pushed to Power BI.
» Read moreWe are very excited to introduce a new mobile capability that enables dashboard owners to customize the look and feel of dashboards on mobile phones.
» Read moreIf you’ve missed hearing about it by now — although we’re not sure how you would – the new mobile game Pokémon Go was released this week, and it became an instant success. Now the latest craze has even been spotted in Power BI publish to web!
» Read moreThe July update of Power BI publisher for Excel adds the ability to connect to data in Power BI and analyze it in Excel using Pivot tables and charts.
» Read moreTwo exciting webinars: the first is from a noted industry expert showing people how to track their development efforts with Power BI, and the second webinar is from the Power BI development team showing their latest mobile features and best practices.
» Read morePartnering with Stetson University, I am happy to share the first of many Power BI Higher Education Analytics solutions. This solution shows student persistence, retention, and graduation patterns, leveraging a Student Information System (SIS) as the data source. Year-over-over retention and graduation rates can be filtered to allow deeper examination of trends at the college and major level. Additional views, including retention and graduation rate tables by major and ethnicity, are included within the report solution.
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