BI-RoundUp – Power BI (On-Premise Gateway Update August – What If Competition – Solution template for Microsoft Dynamics 365)
Here is this week’s BI Round up with the latest weekly information.
Power BI – On-Premise Gateway update for August
As you can see above in the August update there is now support for IBM Netezza connector the new TLS format 1.1 and 1.2.
It is also good to see that they have increased the timeout for gateway requests from 2 minutes to 5 minutes.
And finally, they have updated the Mashup engine to be the same version as the Power BI Desktop update for August, which will ensure that all your latest transformations will work with the On-Premise gateway.
You can find more details here: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-on-premises-data-gateway-august-update/Power BI On-premises data gateway August update
Power BI – What If Competition
As you can see above there is a competition for you to win exclusive Power BI swag by entering the What If contest. Where the Power BI team is looking for people to showcase how they are ustilizing the What If parameters now available in the Power BI Desktop release in August.
There are already some great entries.
You can find more details about the competition here: Show us your creative What If and win swag!
Power BI – Solution template for Microsoft Dynamics 365
As you can see above there is now a Power BI Solution Template for Microsoft Dynamics 365 for field service. This will allow this free add-in to be utilized in your existing Dynamics 365 instance after which you can then leverage Power BI to visualize your data.
Here are the details: Announcing the Power BI solution template for Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Field Service