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Killer Visualizations in Power BI
It’s easier to comprehend data through pictures than by reading numbers in rows and columns. When you visualize data, ideas and questions more readily jump out at you—questions such as: “Where are sales growing the fastest,” “What…
Becoming a Power Power BI User in 7 Quick Steps
You need the latest data for that important business presentation – due in a couple of days. But accessing and transforming data is not at the top of your skillset, especially when the data resides in several locations, in the cloud and on-premises…
Tech Tip Tuesday: getting mobile with the Power BI apps
In this week’s Tech Tip Thursday, our own Guy in a Cube is joined by Spud Trooper and Darth Spud to talk about the Power BI mobile apps.
Visualize your Windows Dev Center analytics data with Power BI
The Windows Dev Center content pack for Power BI provides a quick and convenient way to monitor day-to-day updates to your apps’ analytics data without having to log into your Dev Center account, and gives you a rich set of visuals and filters you can customize to discover new insights. The Windows Dev Center content pack for Power BI provides analytics data for app and IAP acquisitions, ratings, reviews, and health data, for all your apps.
Power BI Gateway – February Update
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.
Introducing the Power BI APIs for Preview
What it means to be a developer has dramatically changed and evolved in recent years. Gone are the days of disconnected single platform software that can take months and years to develop before anyone even uses it. We are now in the age of connected applications…
Data and Seahawks: Road to Superbowl XLIX
The Superbowl is just around the corner and as you can imagine we are getting very excited here in the Seattle area. A good way for us to get some of the Superbowl anxiety out of our systems is to take our data visualization and analytics tools and use…
UN’s Millennium Development Goals Data Visualizations
“The MDGs have been the greatest anti-poverty push in history. New partnerships have been established. New actors have engaged. And now we must finish the job…”. These are the words of Ban Ki-Moon, United Nations Secretary General about the UN’s Millennium…
Embed Power View Interactive Reports in Your Blogs and Websites
Ever since we launched Power BI for Office 365 this past February, we have been sharing Power View interactive reports in this blog. We’ve often been asked how to do this, and today we are happy to announce that this feature plus the option of embedding…
Data Visualization for the 2014 World Cup results using Excel and Power BI
This blog post was authored by Marc Reguera, Finance Director, Microsoft After the success and interested generated by my first post, Visualizing the World Cup history with Excel and Power BI , I decided to update the model with data from the 2014…
15 World Cup history facts with Power Map
This blog post was authored by Igor Peev, Senior Program Manager who enjoys working on challenging projects that deliver new, innovative ways to analyze data and tell good stories with it. He works on interactive tours to present and play with data in…
Failed to find a match for the data source
I’ve seen this following scenario come across a few times. When trying to run a Scheduled Data Refresh, you may see an error similar to the following: “Refreshing the data failed” Within the Power BI Admin Center, if you go to System Health, you will…
May updates for Power Map now available to all Office 365 customers and Preview extension available for Office 2013
Today we are announcing that Power Map will become available to all Office 365 subscriptions that include the Office applications. This is part of our larger investment in making data visualizations more accessible to our customers. We are in the process…
New in Power BI: Data Source Management
Introduction The data management capabilities in Power BI for Office 365 are delivered both in the Power Query add-in for Excel, and in the Manage Data Portal in Office 365 . To help data stewards and information workers get the most from their Power…
Introducing new forecasting capabilities in Power View for Office 365
Today at the PASS Business Analytics conference we announced the availability of new forecasting capabilities for Power View in Office 365. In Power View, you can now apply predictive forecasting, and hindcasting, when visualizing and exploring your data…
Scheduled Data Refresh for Power Query
Update : The Data Refresh experience on Power BI has changed. For more details read this article and try the new Power BI today . We are excited to bring you scheduled refresh for workbooks containing Power Query connections to SQL and Oracle databases…
Thumbnail Images within Power BI Sites
We’ve had some questions regarding the thumbnail images within the Power BI Sites about what the different images mean. I wanted to go through these to provide some understanding, along with how you can control some of the behavior. Not Enabled Workbooks…
Power BI Licensing
*********** This post is outdated and has been replaced with the following: Power BI Licensing Revisited! http://blogs.technet.com/b/powerbisupport/archive/2015/08/19/power-bi-licensing-revisited.aspx *********** We have been seeing a lot of cases that…
Using Power BI to visualize your music collection
Jeroen Ter Heerdt, Technology Advisor Business Intelligence at Microsoft and part time Power BI Rockstar decided a couple of months ago to use Power BI and visualize his music collection using Power BI and this was the result. Tapping into the data…
Global Media Agency Expects Better Campaign Performance with Power BI: No Training Required
Superbowl commercials are viewed globally and cost millions of dollars, yet when do companies know if such investments pay off? Answering such questions about the effectiveness of TV ads and other promotions used to take weeks of effort for a team of…
The Road to the Big Game with Power Map
Following up on our NFC Championship game post 2 weeks ago for the Seahawks, we decided to go a little broader this time and create these two “Road to the Big Game” Power Map tours to show how the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Bronco’s made it to Super…
Happy Holidays with Power BI, Part 1: Where’s Santa Now?
As we get closer and closer to the holidays, the Power BI team wanted to answer one of the most popular questions of all time: Where’s Santa now? Social media was the perfect source for answering question. We ran a search of the following terms…
How Big Data Changed Finance at Microsoft
Finance leaders today are faced with an interesting challenge. How can they consume and analyze the millions of rows of data that Big Data makes available and present that analysis in a way is easy to understand across multiple audiences? To better…
Happy Holidays with Power BI, Part 2: Tracking Santa with Power Map
Following up on our Holiday post last week , we wanted to track Santa using Power Map! In this video you can find Santa’s official NORAD route around the world with more insights about some destinations and visitors to the official NORAD Santa…
Announcing Power BI general availability coming July 24th
Today 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…