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Power BI Desktop Installer Changes & WebView2
As mentioned in the June and July feature summaries, we are switching a vital component of Power BI from CefSharp to WebView2. We’re making this switch to better optimize our development and release process (which means we’ll be able to spend more time developing new features!). It also means that you’ll automatically get the latest security patches as the WebView2 team ships them instead of waiting for us to update Power BI Desktop. Please continue reading as we have some important announcements to make and recommended actions for you to take.
On-premises data gateway October 2021 update is now available
On-premises data gateway (standard and personal mode) release for October 2021
Export Power BI report to file API – Preview Update
I’m happy to update that during September we are modifying the preview release, specifically lifting the 50 exports per hour per capacity limit. More details inside.
Power BI solution templates moving to open source
Announcement January 1, we will be moving Power BI solution templates to open source.
New Power BI regions in India, Australia, and the United States
Starting today, Power BI is expanding to four new regions, allowing customers to locate their Power BI deployments closer to their data sources, either in Azure or on-premises, thus enabling faster performance of data refresh and lower networking egress costs.
Premium Capacity Metrics app – query metrics now available
Thank you for installing the app and sharing your valuable feedback. We have since been working to make improvements in the app and I am excited to share that we…
9/20 Webinar: Comments in Power BI -a new hub to discuss data and collaborate by Nikhil Gaekwad
This week’s Webinar, Power BI Program Manager Nikhil Gaekwad will look at how you can directly add comments to dashboards and specific visuals to discuss your data.
Webinar 10/2: Creative DAX solutions by Philip Seamark
The webinar will aim to reset your understanding of what is possible in DAX by walking through some interesting code highlights from a recent series of games built using DAX (Blackjack, Sudoku , Tic Tac Toe , Hangman & Minesweeper).
Humana Enhances its Healthcare Data Usage with Power BI and Azure
Check out our new Mechanics Video on how healthcare giant Humana uses Power BI and Azure to get the most out of its data.
Join us! Wednesday July 8, 2020 at 11:00 AM – 12:00 noon PDT with Reid Havens!
In this Power BI webinar Reid Havens covers two of the cornerstones of Power Query, tuning and designing for optimal refresh speeds, and intelligently handling errors.
Power BI Mobile – you are in control
Introducing Interactions Setting, which lets you configure how to interact with reports in Power BI mobile apps. Including docking report footer and enabling multi-select!
Coming soon: Changes to the Power BI service – simpler navigation, improvements to lists on Home, and style updates
We continue to iteratively improve experiences that help you find relevant content and return to your work in the Power BI service. Upon hearing your feedback, conducting usability tests, and running successful A/B experiments we’re sharing the following changes coming to all users in early June 2022. Here’s what’s coming: Navigation changes – the introduction of the Browse page which merges Favorites, Recent, and Shared with me. Changes to Home – improved lists on Home now show all content for those lists, not just the first 12. We also added filters and the ability to search those lists in-page. Style updates – Power BI styles (colors, icons, fonts, and more) will be updated to align with the Fluent design system.
Composite models on SQL Server Analysis Services
SQL Server 2022 Analysis Services will support composite models and it is now ready for you to try out with the CTP2 that has just launched. After you install this CTP for SQL Server 2022 on a server, tabular models are hosted on that server can now be used to create a composite model with.
ZynBit Empowers Sales with Microsoft Power BI Embedded
Enrique Plaza Garcia, Product Marketing Manager of Microsoft Power BI Embedded, recently had a chance to catch up with Phil Dixon, CEO of ZynBit, to hear more about ZynBit’s innovative product and how they’ve incorporated Power BI Embedded into their offering to drive value to their customers and increase monetization opportunities for sales and marketing teams. Let’s take a look at how this successful start-up has leveraged Power BI Embedded.
Webinar for February 2: Accelerate your Retail Business with Analytics by Hitachi Solutions
A common challenge that businesses face today is creating something that improves on the value of traditional analytics while utilizing new technologies at our disposal. Turning data into insights and action is the hallmark of a good business intelligence solution. With the increasingly rich and populated Microsoft Cloud Technology landscape, new opportunities are presented in ways that organizations can leverage them. Attend the webinar, “Accelerate your Retail Business with Analytics” by Hitachi Solutions on February 2 to learn more!
New blog series: Become your organization’s strategic advisor with Machine Learning and Power BI
Are you ready to put your organization on a path of continuous improvement using the most valuable decision support techniques? Check out Microsoft Senior Program Manager Christian Berg’s timely series of essays on how to become your organization’s strategic advisor using Machine Learning and Power BI, available on the Community Blog. Each post takes on a different aspect of business intelligence, and includes a how-to section to get you started creating customized solutions for your team. Most analysis in the posts is done using the R language, but Christian tries to keep any scripts generic enough that anyone can apply them to their own data even without prior hands-on R experience.
Get inspired for 2017 with The 12 Days of Dashboards
While most of us spent the last two weeks drinking eggnog and spending time with family and friends, Microsoft’s Sam Lester found an additional way to celebrate: creating a new blog series called “The 12 Days of Power BI Dashboards”. Each dashboard is based on a unique, yet common, data source that almost everyone can access. Sam’s goal for the project was to identify new methods for using Power BI creatively with data sources that don’t naturally align to reporting and BI projects. If you’re looking for inspiring dashboards to jumpstart your data analysis in 2017, check out Sam’s work!
Help Improve DirectQuery!
Do you use DirectQuery to connect directly to your data with Power BI Desktop? If so, we’d like to hear from you!
Now in preview: Optimize your phone experience with customizable reports
With the most recent update to Power BI Mobile, we are excited to announce our preview of phone reports. Much like with our previous feature, phone optimization for dashboards, you can now create report views that are optimized for your phone.
[Webinar 10/27] Overcome Key Marketing Analytics Challenges with Microsoft Power BI and Alteryx
With more digital work being done than ever before, the sheer volume of data that marketing departments collect is growing each and every day. As a result of this influx of data, marketers now have more opportunity to drive better outcomes for their organizations. So, how can you, as an analyst, combat these challenges and get more value from your marketing data at the point of impact? Join this webinar on Thursday, October 27 and find out!
Power BI Desktop November Feature Summary
Today we released the November update of the Power BI Desktop. It is filled with many exciting features including our newest analytics feature, clustering. We’ve also added several new table and matrix improvements based on the feedback you’ve given us on our UserVoice forum.
What it takes to become a business intelligence hero
With Power BI Pro, you’ve learned how to shape data into a unified view in less time and with less effort, so you can deliver valuable business insight to decision makers when they need it. You don’t have to stop there. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talks about using data to change business culture so that, he says, “every organization, every team and every individual is empowered to do great things because of the data at their fingertips.” Now might be the right time for you to use the enhanced functionality in Power BI Pro to become a business intelligence hero—and help build a data culture in your organization.
Jan 23rd webinar: The Powerful Interactions between Excel and Power BI by Tristan Malherbe
See all the interactions between Excel and Power BI (Power BI in Excel, Excel connector, Power BI Publisher for Excel, Analyse in Excel, Export to Excel, push Data model from Excel to Power BI Service) with practical examples and relevant scenarios. Where: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM8xkNyZaTU
Announcing the Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) Solution Template
Announcing Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) Solution Template Blue Margin, Inc., Microsoft Gold Partner in Data Analytics and Data Platform just released a VSTS solution template to provide project…
On-premises data gateway December update is now available
We are happy to announce that we have just released the December update for the On-premises data gateway. This month’s Gateway update includes an updated version of the Mashup Engine,…