Microsoft Power BI Updates Blog

Power BI Desktop June update

This month, Power BI Desktop has a few more improvements sprinkled across the board, as well as a preview of the new mapping control.

Unlock retail intelligence with the Power BI app Barcode scanner

Anyone who has worked in a retail business, from manager to customer service agent, knows that the success of their operation isn’t found in the back room – it’s out on the sales floor. You’ve always had your retail data at your fingertips with the Power BI mobile app, but now we’ve enhanced the retail experience with the addition of a new barcode scanner.

Visualize your Prevedere data with Power BI

With the Prevedere content pack for Power BI, you can visualize and explore your predictive results. This out-of-the-box solution includes information such as financial forecasts, top growth markets, and global economic, industry specific, and weather data that’s relevant to your business.

Power BI Mobile Apps Update – June 2016

We’re excited to share the Power BI Mobile update for June because it’s packed with really great improvements and a number of exciting new features!

[Webinar 06/30] – Improve Your Sales Analytics with Alteryx and Microsoft Power BI

Join us for this joint webinar with Alteryx to explore how sales analysts are using Microsoft Power BI and Alteryx to get deeper insights, improve performance and identify new business opportunities.

Whitepaper: Bidirectional Cross Filtering

In SQL Server 2014, filter context of a table is based on the values in a related table. With bidirectional cross-filtering, the filter context is propagated to a second related table on the other side of a table relationship. Learn more in our new whitepaper.

Webinars for June 27-30: introducing Flow and PowerApps, and Marco Russo on why you need to learn DAX

We’re finishing up June with a fantastic pair of webinars! Discover DAX in Power BI and why you need to learn it, and how to leverage Microsoft PowerApps to get the most out of your data.

Tech Tip Thursday: all about Power BI workspaces

Microsoft's Guy in a Cube has been providing tips and tricks for Power BI and Business Intelligence on his YouTube channel since 2014. Every Thursday we highlight a different helpful video from his collection. Have you ever wondered what "workspace" exactly means in the navigation bar of the Power BI service? In this week's Tech …

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Visual Awesomeness Unlocked: Pulse Chart

The new Pulse Chart custom visual for Power BI helps you tell data stories and engage your audience. It lets you highlight key events and show how those relate to trends you see in the data.

New features available for Narratives for Power BI

Narratives for Power BI, the free custom visual for Power BI that automatically generates rich-descriptive narrative summaries for your data has new features available. With the Narrative Science…