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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This morning the PASS Summit 2014 started in Seattle and during the keynote there was several announcements from Microsoft. I’m considering here only the ones about Business Intelligence (you will find other blogs around about SQL Server). In the coming…  Read more

I don’t usually blog about news, unless there is a relevant impact on future directions. Last week we have seen a huge number of announcements for Power BI (Custom Visuals now available to anyone through a gallery online, you can…  Read more

Microsoft recently released the Analyze in Excel feature, which allows you to connect an Excel pivot table to a data model published on Power BI. I think/hope that Microsoft will enhance this feature to extend its current limits. For example,…  Read more