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Help us shape the future of Power BI – Exploring the idea of Integrating Power BI with Microsoft Forms

Back in May 2021, we announced the integration of the new Power BI quick create experience within SharePoint, which enabled the SharePoint users to easily generate awesome Power BI reports by just one click. Currently, we are exploring other applications where we could potentially integrate a similar experience and one of the application that we are exploring is MS Forms. We have created a survey to compile feedback from our customers on a potential integration with Microsoft Forms. If your organization uses Microsoft Forms and/or Microsoft Power BI, we would encourage you to make your voices heard by completing this ~5 mins survey.

Join us! Thursday July 9, 2020 at 11:00 AM – 12:00 noon PDT with Reza Rad!

Building a data model in Power BI is the most important task you should do properly in your Power BI solution. This session is about the most common design pattern models of Power BI; Building the Star Schema with fact table and dimension tables, understand the relationships, building common models such as Budget vs. Actual with fact tables with different granularity, or Inventory model with a snapshot fact table. This session is about real-world design patterns of Power BI.

How Veolia Improves Customer Experiences with Power BI and Azure  

Veolia, a French transnational environmental service company, created a dedicated portal for customer insights and analytics built using embedded Power BI reports. Underpinning these Power BI reports is Azure data architecture.   

Introducing Power BI Premium Capacity Metrics App as a template app

We are very pleased to announce the availability of the Power BI Premium Capacity Metrics App as a template app.

How Rockwell Automation Drives a Data Culture 

How Rockwell Automation drives a data culture using Power BI and Azure

Join us! Thursday 16 April 2020 at 12:30pm – 2:00 pm PDT with Reza Rad!

Join Reza Rad presenting an insightful session about the basics of data modelling in Power BI with many live demos

Announcing designing custom navigation for Power BI apps is now generally available (GA) 

We’re excited to announce this capability is generally available (GA). Now, we’ve improved the experiences based on customer feedback to help authors and consumers get the best possible app experience.  Learn about it in this blog.

Paginated Reports in Power BI September 2019 Feature Summary

Welcome back to another “New Feature Friday” for Paginated Reports in the Power BI service.  We’re pleased to announce three new features rolling out around paginated reports.

Announcing custom branding for your organization

Today, I am thrilled to announce the release of custom branding for the Power BI service. Now you can change the look and feel of the Power BI service to match your corporate theme with just a few clicks!

Paginated Reports August 2019 Feature Update – Report Builder Update, SaaS embedding support and what’s coming soon

As we head into August, we’ve released two feature updates for Paginated Reports in Power BI, with several more on the way. 

Connecting Azure Analysis Services to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2

With the public preview available for “Multi-Protocol Access” on Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, now AAS can use the Blob API to access files in ADLSg2. Check how to do it!

Connect with the Microsoft product team in Amsterdam at Power Summit

In addition to the 20 tracks lead by the community, technical experts and Industry luminaries presenting at the upcoming Power Platform Summit in Amsterdam, the Microsoft Team will be there in full force presenting the Microsoft Power Series track– over 15 hours of deep dive and hands on content.  These sessions are included in both the  Power … Continue reading “Connect with the Microsoft product team in Amsterdam at Power Summit”

Enhancing presentation mode with slideshow in Windows Power BI app

Few months back we released Presentation mode in our Power BI Mobile app for Windows devices, which better allows you to focus on your data during meetings. Using Power BI Windows app with presentation mode enables you to present, collaborate, and have productive discussions while using your data in your Power BI dashboards and reports. You can … Continue reading “Enhancing presentation mode with slideshow in Windows Power BI app”

Webinar 3/7: Tour of the new Power BI Premium Capacity metrics app by Swati Gupta

(Please note: Date change due to inclement weather in Redmond) Take a look at the new version of Power BI Premium Capacity Metrics app.  In addition to comprehensive refresh , query and eviction metrics for past 7 days, the latest version now offers system metrics by workloads, and total active dataset size in memory metrics. … Continue reading “Webinar 3/7: Tour of the new Power BI Premium Capacity metrics app by Swati Gupta”

Microsoft Business Applications Summit is back – join us June 10-11, 2019 in Atlanta!

Connect with experts, collaborate with your community and maximize learning opportunities at Microsoft Business Applications Summit, returning June 10-11, 2019 in Atlanta, GA. Back for its second year, this is the premier place for power users, analysts and technical architects to get hands-on with the tools you use every day – and get a sneak peek at what’s new and next. Registration is open – don’t miss it!

Join Us! Power BI Dev Camp! Thursday 29 October, 2020

This month’s Power BI Dev Camp topic is: Deep Dive into the Power BI JavaScript API. Learn how to become a pro when developing with the Power BI JavaScript API. In this camp session, you’ll learn how to move beyond embedding read-only reports to provide your users with the ability to customize existing reports and to create new reports on top of existing datasets. The session will demonstrate how to implement interactive capabilities with Power BI embedding including navigating between pages, setting filters and applying bookmarks.

June 2020 Community Highlights

Featured community members, changes to the Community, and more! Read up on recent Power BI community news.

8/2 Webinar: See how PowerApps and PowerBI can provide school teachers the apps and the reports they need by Daniel Christian

8/2 Webinar: See how PowerApps and PowerBI can provide school teachers the apps and the reports they need by Daniel Christian

Power BI and SharePoint – the road ahead

SharePoint is an important part of how many organizations organize and distribute BI content to users. In recognition of how important this approach is, we’ve invested in modernizing and creating…

Power BI Desktop July 2018 Feature Summary

July is a big release for us on the Power BI Desktop team! Our most exciting feature this month is a preview of Composite models. This feature lets you seamlessly extend your DirectQuery models with other DirectQuery sources or even imported data. We have heard from many of you, especially those in larger enterprises, that this is an essential feature and are glad to share it with all of you. We also have many reporting features this month, including an update to our visual header that lets you not only put visual all the way to the top of your canvas, but also have extensive control over the functionality and formatting of the header.

Power BI Developer community July update

This blog post covers the latest updates for Power BI Developers community- Power BI Embedded and Custom Visuals.

On-premises data gateway June update is now available

We are happy to announce that we have just released the June update for the On-premises data gateway.   This month’s Gateway update includes an updated version of the Mashup Engine, which…

Register now for the Microsoft Business Applications Summit – July 22–24, 2018 in Seattle!

We’re excited to announce registration is open for the first-ever Microsoft Business Applications Summit, coming to Seattle July 22–24! Combining the best of the Microsoft Data Insights Summit, Convergence, and the Dynamics 365 Technical Conference, this new event is designed to help you create the best, lasting solutions for your business.

Power BI Service and Mobile April Feature Summary

April turned out to be exciting month for the Power BI team. Mostly because we got to meet many of you, our awesome community members, at the Data & BI Summit in Dublin. Huge thank you for those…