BI-NSIGHT – Power BI (Developers – Opening up the Content Packs, Weekly Service Update,Visual Scroller) – SharePoint 2016 (White Paper) – Excel 2016 (Use Excel like a Boss)
It has been a crazy last few months from the Microsoft BI stream, and finally as the year winds down they appear to also be looking to take a much needed break. So this week’s BI-NSIGHT is short and sweet. Power BI – Developers details It was great to see how Microsoft have embraced not only the end users for…
BI-NSIGHT – Power BI (Collaboration, Mobile, Webtrends, Natural Language, Resizing Reports, Increased Limits, Dynamics AX Support) – SQL Server 2016 CTP 2.3 – APS Update 4 – Office 2016 (Updates, Publishing Directly to Power BI)
There is a whole stack of updates with regards to Power BI this week, as well as some other updates within the BI space. I have to quickly point out that I was very fortunate to finally meet Jen Underwood. t (Twitter) It is really great to have the opportunity to have meet up with people that you have followed…
BI-NSIGHT – Power BI GA (24 July 2015) / Updates – SQL Server 2016 CTP2.2 (SSRS Treemap & Sunburst Charts)
This week has been another amazing and interesting week with regards to Power BI. So here are is the latest information that I could get my hands on! Power BI – GA (General Availability) This week finally Power BI will go into General Availability. Which has been a long time coming and something that I have been looking forward to…
BI-NSIGHT – Multiple Power BI Announcements – Cortana Analytics – Particle and Microsoft – Azure Data Catalog – Power Query Update
So the past week has been filled with a whole host of announcements, particularly in the Power BI space, but as well as with Microsoft’s cloud based solutions. A lot of the information that I have found due to the current World Partner Conference! So as we do every week, let’s get into the amazing details. There is quite a…
BI-NSIGHT – Power BI for Android Devices – Power BI Designer vs Excel – Power BI Refresh for On-Premise – Power BI Refresh from OneDrive – Power BI Interface Updates
Whilst I thought that this week might be a bit on the quiet side, I think that my previous suspicion is correct, and the wonderful people from Microsoft like to send out updates on a Wednesday. Power BI for Android Devices I was just browsing through twitter and I came across a tweet and clicked on the link, not entirely…
Power BI – Creating a Dashboard when not automatically created
What I found was that in some instances when you imported data into Power BI, it would not automatically create the dashboard. This would also result in your dataset not being indexed (if that is the correct terminology) so that you could then use Q&A in order to enable users to easily search for results using Q&A As with our example below,…
BI-NSIGHT – Power BI Designer Update – Power BI Twilio Connector – Excel 2016 Visualisations – Azure Data Lake
Fortunately this week, the Microsoft machine was a little quieter, but still as expected new updated in the Power BI Space. Power BI Designer Update I have read quite a few blog posts, downloaded and viewed the Power BI Designer update. And I have to say they are some welcome changes. In my mind I see that over time,…
BI-NSIGHT – SQL Server 2016 – Power BI Updates – Microsoft Azure Stack
Well I have to admit that it seems that the Microsoft machine has been working flat out to get out new products and updates. If my memory serves me, this is the third week in a row that Microsoft has released new products and updates. I am really enjoying it! But hopefully this will slow down, so that we can…
BI-NSIGHT – Azure Analytics Services – Power BI Dynamics AX Connector – Auto refreshing of Excel Files in Power BI – Excel 2016 Updates
Once again this past week Microsoft as released even more products. So let’s get started. Azure Analytics Services On 29 April at the annual Microsoft Build conference they announced new services on the Azure platform. I really think that Microsoft is doing a great job of having an entire cloud platform available for customers. Due to the digital age and…
Automating refreshing of Power BI Reports and Dashboards with Excel Workbooks and Power Update
I recently tested to see if it was possible to upload an Excel Workbook to One Drive for Business, and then use this within Power BI. This was successful. Then I saw, and it appeared that if you used an Excel Workbook from One Drive for Business, that it would automatically refresh the file. Which I thought it might possibly…