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Announcing the Power BI Embedded Launch Roadshow!
Today, we are pleased to announce the Power BI Embedded launch roadshow for our ISV and developer partners! We want to help you get going with the service, so we’ll be stopping in 3 cities around the world to spend some quality time showing you the service and setting you up for success!
Analyze your Lithium community data in Power BI
Lithium builds trusted relationships between the world’s best brands and their customers, helping people get answers and share their experiences. The Lithium content pack for Power BI allows you to gain insight into key measures of community performance…
Announcing preview of Power BI gateway for enterprise deployments
With Power BI gateways, you can keep your data fresh by connecting to on-premises data sources. The gateways provide the flexibility you need to meet individual needs, and the needs of your organization. In addition to the personal gateway, which is already…
What Color Is Your Data? Identify Your Data Color Spectrum and Unlock Its Potential
Explore the many colors of the data spectrum, and learn how to easily compile, visualize, and share the data stories that drive business success….
Enterprise ready: Power BI Mobile now has Intune support
Today we are excited to introduce new enterprise-ready capabilities in Power BI Mobile apps. This new version of Power BI for iOS and Android enables organizations to better protect against access to sensitive information in the application and prevent…
Webinar 12/7 -Using Microsoft Flow to automate a B2B approval process by Paul Schaeflein
In this webinar Paul Schaeflein, will go through how to use Microsoft Flow, Azure B2B and Microsoft’s Cloud services to automate a process to request and approve external users to an Office 365 Group.
Congratulations to the Winners of the “Timeline Storyteller” Contest!
Congratulations to the winners of the Timeline Storyteller contest! Last month, we asked you to show us creative uses for the Timeline Storyteller custom visual for Power BI, and you delivered some amazing contest submissions! Each entry was reviewed by both the Microsoft Data Journalism Team and the Microsoft Researchers who created the Timeline Storyteller feature. Check out the winning submission and two runners-up!
Webinar 9/28: Power BI Modeling Best Practices for Business Users by Avi Singh
In this session, Avi will share with you the key best practices and guidelines for building Power BI Models, which would make your Power BI models “beautiful”, inside and out!
Power BI On-premises data gateway August update
The August update for the On-premises data gateway is now available. This update includes the following improvements: Support for IBM Netezza connector Support for TLS 1.1/1.2 Updated version of the…
Power BI Desktop September Feature Summary
This 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!
Bringing more text analytics to the Bing News Solution Template
We are excited to announce support for ‘bring your own entities’ for the Bing News solution template! The Bing News template allows brand managers to find articles most relevant to them by filtering on sentiment, trending topics as well as entities like locations, organizations and people. One of the most common feature requests we received was the ability to define your own list of words and use that to slice your data. A product manager may want to e.g. create a list of products or company names and use that to slice and dice collected news articles. Read on to find out how you can incorporate your own entities into the news template today!
Announcing the Power BI solution template for Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Field Service
Today we are pleased to announce the release of the Power BI solution template for Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Field Service. This template includes a set of reports designed for field service professionals. The solution template offers a very fast guided experience to create compelling reports on an extensible, scalable, and secure architecture and can be customized as needed. This means that instead of spending your time on plumbing, you can instead spend it on extending and customizing the solution template to meet your organization’s needs.
Visual Awesomeness Unlocked: Tachometer Gauge Custom Visual
The Tachometer by Annik is a flexible gauge that allows you to quickly convey detailed information in a way that can be intuitively understood. Read about how to use this new custom visual and see examples of it in action.
11/7 Webinar: Announcing Microsoft Flow General Availability
A lot of people think the Power BI team is strictly focused on the visualization of data, but actually Power BI sits within a larger organization called Business Application Platform Innovation (BAPI) whose charter is to not just make data actionable through visualization, but also to simplify the automation and acquisition of that data. To that end the team has built Microsoft PowerApps for acquisition and Microsoft Flow for automation. On November 7, 2016, we’ll be hosting a webinar to announce Microsoft Flow General Availability. In this webinar, Group Program Manager Stephen Siciliano will show how Microsoft Flow is an easy-to-use product that helps you set up automated workflows between your favorite apps and services. You can synchronize files, get notifications, collect data, and much more. For preview customers already familiar with Microsoft Flow, Stephen will also cover the changes for release and how you can take advantage of using Microsoft Flow for production applications.
Tech Tip Thursday: Displaying text columns in tool tips
Back in May we added the ability to show custom tool tips in reports to Power BI Desktop, but by default tooltips display the count of a column. What happens if you want to display the text instead? Microsoft Senior Program Manager Charles Sterling has you covered in a short step-by-step guide.
Data Visualization for Storytelling with Alberto Cairo & Microsoft Power BI
Visualization no longer just complements a written story — it is the story. In our increasingly data-driven world, visualization is becoming an essential tool for journalists, from national papers to blogs with a staff of one.
Happy Holidays!
Happy Holidays from the Power BI team, and our colleagues at PowerApps and Microsoft Flow! Thank you for all your support in 2016, and we hope you and your family enjoy this most wonderful time of the year.
Three ways your business can build a better data culture
If you’re already using Microsoft Power BI Pro, you’ve learned how to unify all your data sources and create dashboards and reports that deliver useful business insights to decision makers. We’re sure that’s working out well for the business, and we bet it’s earned you some notice. Here are three tips that will help you get even more out of Power BI Pro and transform the data culture at your organization.
Combining Excel Files hosted on a SharePoint folder with Power BI
Have you ever wanted to consolidate, combine or append data from multiple excel spreadsheets or workbooks? I bet you have, and it has been a painful process either done manually or via 3rd party add-ins. In this blog post, we’ll show you how, with the newest version of the Power BI Desktop and Power Query for Excel, you can combine multiple data from Excel files into one big tall table. This post was contributed by Miguel Escobar and Ken Puls, Power BI experts and authors of the new ebook, “[M]agic Tricks for Data Wizards”.
Visual Awesomeness Unlocked: The Chiclet Slicer
by Amir Netz, Technical Fellow This is the first entry in a series of articles discussing some awesome features of visuals, many that are not very obvious at first glance. We’ll start our journey with a visual that was uploaded just today…
Visual Awesomeness Unlocked: The Timeline Slicer
By Amir Netz, Technical Fellow If your data contains dates you are going to love this. Which means all of you… This week, I am thrilled to introduce the newest member of the custom visuals family – Timeline Slicer . This Slicer was…
Analyze your Planview Enterprise data in Power BI
Planview Enterprise is an end-to-end portfolio and resource management solution that connects strategy to execution, improving decision-making across the enterprise. The Planview Enterprise content pack for Power BI allows you to visualize your resource…
Custom visualizations support and 22 other features in the Power BI Desktop October update
We’re excited to announce the Power BI Desktop October update. This month’s update includes 23 new or improved features. While this is just about half the number of features compared to last month’s update , we expect you will find many…
Power BI Weekly Service Update
In this week’s update we’ve added two new industry sample dashboards, reports and datasets as well as two new capabilities: Friendly strings for hyperlinks and the initial version of Drill. See what you can do with Power BI with two new…
Create a Power BI Desktop Report in Minutes
You don’t have to labor for hours to design charts and graphs in your reports. By using the intuitive Power BI tools, you can use drag-and-drop gestures to create stunning visual reports in a few minutes. Here’s an example of how easy it…