This month we are very excited to share one of our most anticipated features from the Microsoft Data Insights Summit: Bookmarking. Combining bookmarking with some of our other recently released features such as drillthrough and what if gives you powerful storytelling capabilities and lets you create highly interactive reports. We also have some more visual improvements and a big update to our quick measures feature this month.
» Read moreThis June, we released public preview of Power BI apps, which allow you to easily distribute your BI solutions to large numbers of business users, empowering them to make data-driven decisions. Since…
» Read moreToday, we are excited to announce that Power BI will leverage the power of AI to suggest interesting and relevant content to your end users. To see the power of this feature in action, start by going to the Power BI apps tab in the Power BI service. Prior to this, you would see the list of apps in AppSource that you had access to, sorted alphabetically. Now…
» Read morePower BI User groups (PUG) are groups for great people like you (yes, you reading this!) to get together with other awesome people to talk, discuss, and share experiences, questions, and more around Power BI. These groups can have live or virtual meetings so you can choose how to engage or contribute in a way that fits your schedule. In celebration of the start of the Power BI World Tour, and thanks to the new Power BI custom connectors, I was able to create my own custom connector, get the data from the PUGs that I found on meetup.com, create a really simple data model, and then create the report included in this post. Read more about custom connectors!
» Read moreInternally, Microsoft runs every aspect of the company using data. We refer to this as our “Data Culture”. As the leader of business intelligence and analytics for James Phillips, the Corporate Vice President who leads the Business Applications Group, I am often asked why and how we manage user feedback. With this post, I would like to share our practices around collecting and using data to accelerate development of business applications like Power BI, Power Apps, Microsoft Flow and the range of Dynamics 365 products.
» Read moreIt’s time again to recap the features and announcements in the Power BI service and mobile over the past month, including per-user usage metrics, Power BI apps for online services, iOS proxy settings support, and more!
» Read moreThis is a very exciting release for Power BI Desktop! We are releasing two features that we demoed at the Data Insights Summit: drillthrough and report insights. We also have an update to our theming preview that many of you have been waiting for and a new chart type!
» Read moreYou asked, and we delivered. Today, we are excited to announce that we’re supercharging usage metrics by surfacing the names of your end users. And of course, you’re free to copy and customize the pre-built usage metrics reports to drill into the data. The change is currently rolling out worldwide, and should be completed by the end of the week. This simple change has the potential to magnify your impact like never before. Now, you can understand exactly who your audience is, and reach out to your top users directly to gather asks and feedback.
» Read moreThe Customer Data and Analytics (CDnA) team at Microsoft enables strategic data insights that shape the entire organization, from high-level leadership policies to small product decisions. Both CDnA and the Power BI product have mutually benefited from a close relationship since the Power BI public preview in 2015. In fact, the early and ongoing input from this internal Microsoft team and its users has helped make Power BI the “enterprise ready”, robust, and feature-rich platform it is today. Learn more about the relationship between Power BI and CDnA, and how they use reports and dashboard to help run one of the world’s largest and fastest moving companies.
» Read moreJuly was yet another fantastic month for Power BI! We celebrated our second birthday with you and continued to work hard to deliver a great set of features across Power BI service and mobile. Here’s a quick recap in case you missed it amid all the celebrations.
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