In the modern BI world, data preparation is considered the most difficult, expensive, and time-consuming task, estimated by experts as taking 60%-80% of the time and cost of a typical analytics project. Some of the challenges in those projects include fragmented and incomplete data, complex system integration, business data without any structural consistency, and of course, a high skillset barrier. Specialized expertise, typically reserved for data warehousing professionals, is often required. Such advanced skills are rare and expensive.
» Read more As organizations embrace a data culture to drive business decisions, they need an enterprise business intelligence platform that can meet their sophisticated needs – from self-service BI to full enterprise governance, from paginated reports to full interactive data exploration, and from small data sets to petabytes of data.
» Read more We are now in the last quarter of the year and, as always, the Power BI team is saving the best for last. We rolled out some of our biggest features in the months of September and October.
» Read more Discuss the latest updates to Power BI embedding features offered through Azure and the Power BI Service
» Read more SQL PASS Summit 2018 is here! The Power BI team is going to have another strong presence at the Seattle Convention Center next week, and we can hardly wait to see you there.
» Read more We are pleased to announce that the ability to export your Power BI reports to PowerPoint is now generally available
» Read more I am happy to announce that Custom and Certified Connectors in Power BI are now generally available!OverviewAfter delivering the Power BI extensibility framework, our incredible community has…
» Read more 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.
» Read more We are excited to announce that we have just released the October update for the On-premises data gateway.
» Read more Webinar covering Power BI advanced data prep with dataflows—a suite self-service low-code/no-code features and capabilities for business analysts to easily process and unify their data and store it in Azure-based data-lake storage.
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