We are pleased to announce the Public preview of the Visio custom visual for Power BI. The Visio custom visual will allow you to visualize data using Microsoft Visio diagrams from within Power BI dashboards and reports. Any Power BI user can add Visio custom visual from the store (get it from the store) to start using this capability right away. Learn more about this new feature and discover ways it can help you make informed decisions about your business even faster.
» Read more 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!
» Read more Never used the Power BI mobile apps? Doesn’t matter – we still want your feedback! The goal of the Power BI mobile apps is to make it easy to stay connected to your data at the touch of your fingertips, on iOS, Android, and Windows 10 mobile devices. We want to make the mobile experience better for all Power BI users, so we’re running a short survey. Take this survey to influence the future releases of the Power BI mobile apps!
» Read more Today we are excited to announce the release of the Power BI solution template for Azure Activity Logs. This template provides analytics on top of your Activity Log in the Azure Portal. Gain insight into the activities performed by various resources and people in your subscription. Get started with historical analysis on your last 90 days of Activity Log data, and let an Azure SQL database accumulate these historical events in addition to incoming events.
» Read more This month we are very excited to release our What if feature, which we previewed in the Data Insights Summit keynote back in June. We’ve also added even more features for our table and matrix visual, including a formatting option to show values on rows of your matrix. We also have several new analytics features, such as symmetry shading and ratio lines for scatter charts.
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» Read more Act now! The Power BI Early Bird rate ends on August 07, 2017. Don’t miss this opportunity to save $100 on the registration price. The World Tour kicks off in London and Copenhagen this month, and then moves to other cities around the world.
» Read more Have you visited the Power BI Community blog lately? Along with rapidly growing forums, event listings, and ways to leave feedback, the Community blog is a platform for you to share ideas with your peers, industry experts, and us here at Microsoft. We want to hear what’s got you thinking about Power BI and Business Intelligence! To get started, simply message me, @Jessica, with a rough title for your post and a couple of sentences to describe your topic. Check out these great posts from June and July!
» Read more July was yet another fantastic month for Power BI! We celebrated our second birthday with you and continued to work hard to deliver a great set of features across Power BI service and mobile. Here’s a quick recap in case you missed it amid all the celebrations.
» Read more The wait is over. PowerApps and Power BI can play together, regardless of who’s hosting! We already showed you how you can embed your app inside a Power BI dashboard. Now with the new Power BI tile control, you can show your Power BI tiles inside your app.
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