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After months of public preview, Microsoft today is releasing the Power BI service to general availability. The preview was really a beta that evolved in these months, and I personally liked the approach that MS developers have now. I did… Read more
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Push datasets are an efficient and inexpensive way to implement real-time updates in Power BI reports and dashboards. They can provide better performance and scalability than DirectQuery at the price of a small development cost. Read more
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Power BI Desktop & Excel
The August 2015 update of Power BI Desktop added two important features for existing Excel and Analysis Services users: Import Excel Power BI artifacts (Data Model, Queries, Power View) into a new Power BI Desktop file Live Analysis Services Connections: Ability… Read more
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This article is the state-of-the-art guide of the development tools for Power BI and Analysis Services models, providing guidance to improve productivity and access to new features. Read more
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One week ago I delivered a session for 24 hour of PASS, the online free event delivered by PASS (recordings are now available), where I introduced my one-day preconference Create a Power BI Solution in one day that I will… Read more
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You can connect an Excel workbook to a Power BI model in two ways: Using the Analyze in Excel action in powerbi.com Using the Connect to Data action in the ribbon of Power BI publisher for Excel In both cases,… Read more
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Today Microsoft announced the availability of Power BI preview also outside United States. https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-preview-now-available-worldwide/ One important thing to note is that also the mobile app for iPad and iPhone are also available worldwide. Jus go in the Power BI Download… Read more
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In the last months, I’ve been trying to suggest a direction for Power BI, but I start to realize that in these days Microsoft is really prioritizing features based on customer feedback. This can make things harder for a new… Read more
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Today (September 30, 2015) is the last day to submit an entry in the Power BI Best Visual contest. I and Daniele Perilli (who has the skills to design and implement UI) spent hours thinking about something that would have… Read more
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This article is about how you can save time when building and maintaining Power BI reports by using strategies to re-use visual formatting. Read more