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Power BI September 2024 Feature Summary

Welcome to the September 2024 update! We have a lot of exciting updates to share with you this month as well as a new feature you’ve been waiting for. You can now choose from a variety of themes Power BI Desktop, including the most requested Dark Mode! You can personalize your data visualization experience to match your preferences and working environment. In addition, we’ve now consolidated similar options in the menu bar and streamlined the button text for better readability and responsive screen sizing.

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Nov 1 Webinar: Big Data with Power BI, HDInsight, and Datameer

Power BI is a fantastic data visualization, transformation, and discovery product, but it’s not designed for “Big Data”-scale datasets. Meanwhile, Azure HDInsight is an impressive cloud-based Hadoop and Spark distribution that works at scale, but it isn’t designed to be friendly for business users the way Power BI is. In this webinar, Andrew Brust will show how you can leverage the scale of HDInsight and the ease-of use of Power BI with Datameer, part of the Azure HDInsight Application Platform. If you’re a Power BI fan, and you want to do Big Data analytics without learning the ins and outs of Hadoop and Spark, then don’t miss this webinar.

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Hôpital Montfort builds a case for better healthcare with Power BI

If one set of lab tests is good, then two should be twice as good, right? It turns out the answer is no. More healthcare is not necessarily better healthcare. Choosing Wisely Canada, a campaign organized by a team of leading physicians in partnership with dozens of Canadian medical organizations, is offering guidance to help clinicians decide which tests, treatments, and prescriptions are unnecessary. Hôpital Montfort, in Ottawa, Ontario, is using Power BI to help provide its physicians with the evidence to help them make some of those wise choices.

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Making It Easier To Administer Power BI

The Power BI Admin Portal gives organizations the ability to view usage data and set controls and limits on how Power BI is used throughout the organization.  We have heard from many administrators that these capabilities are critical, but sometimes getting the right person access to the Portal was hard because it was only available to Office 365 Global Administrators. We are introducing Power BI Admin role where you can give users Power BI Admin privileges without giving them full Office 365 administrative access. We are also making it easier for Cloud Solutions Providers easier to manage Power BI Admin Portal on your behalf.

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Explore your MYOB Advanced Data with Power BI

MYOB Advanced is a cloud based ERP software that allows you to manage financials and inventory. The Power BI content pack for MYOB Advanced turns on insightful sales reporting out-of-the-box. With limited expertise needed, managers and stakeholders can access a set of sales dashboards and reports and view KPIs, such as monitoring opportunity pipelines to see progress versus sales goals. It allows users to understand the volume of won and lost opportunities, and determine performance over time, such as month-over-month or year-over-year.

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