Today, we are excited to announce General Availability (GA) of automatic aggregations, along with several important improvements. By using automatic aggregations in Power BI Premium, you can unlock cloud-scale data volumes for interactive analysis. Automatic aggregations import data into the dataset only at the aggregated level while leaving the detail data at the source to minimize data duplication. In this way, most BI queries can benefit from Power BI’s blazing fast query performance in import mode, while occasional detail queries can still work transparently against the data source in DirectQuery mode.
» Read more The volume of data is growing at an ever-increasing rate. As it grows, so does the value to the companies that are able to unlock insights from it. Power BI is all about helping organizations embrace a data culture, where every user can make better decisions based on data big and small, no matter where that data is coming from Providing users a way to do analysis over large volumes of data has traditionally been challenging. Large volumes require extra compute power and specialized skills to effectively model and analyze. To unblock users, organizations have often relied on transforming big datasets into smaller, more manageable datasets, which can then be analyzed using traditional BI reporting and visualization tools. When data is transformed from big to small, the details of the data tend to get lost as dimensionality is traded away for size and performance. While insights are lost, management complexity and costs grow as development teams work to populate these multiple smaller datasets.
» Read more Today during the Microsoft Data Insights Summit, James Phillips, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Business Applications, Platform and Intelligence (BAPI) organization, announced the general availability of Power BI Premium.
» Read more Excel 2016 is out and works better together with Power BI! Microsoft recently announced the availability of Office 2016 . If you’re already working in Excel, you no longer have to look up your workbook from Power BI. We’re excited to…
» Read more Power BI is coming to a city near you! With Microsoft Power BI generally available, we are excited to bring it to a city near you. It doesn’t matter if you’re already familiar or new with Power BI. We are planning on showing you how powerful…
» Read more by James Phillips, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Business Intelligence Products Group Today is an exciting milestone, as we release the new Power BI service and Power BI Desktop . When I first unveiled our GA date earlier this month, I emphasized…
» Read more Today we’re very excited to announce the availability of the GA Update for Power BI Desktop. This is, by far, our biggest release to date, with dozens of new features across all areas of the product. We have been telling you about this release…
» Read more Earlier this month, James Philips Corporate Vice President of Power BI announced Power BI 2.0 General Availability on July 24. With only two days to go, now is a great time to provide more detail on some of the changes you will see on July 24 and what…
» Read more With Power BI’s imminent GA release we’re excited to announce a number of new capabilities to the service. Team collaboration Power BI groups offer a powerful collaborative experience built on Office 365 groups . Groups in Power BI bring…
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