Power BI is turning 10, and we’re celebrating a decade of turning data into insight and impact. From 500,000 early adopters to over 375,000 organizations today—including 95% of the Fortune 500—Power BI has become a global force in business intelligence. We want to give a major thanks to our vibrant community of users, partners, and advocates and celebrate this achievement.
Read moreEsri’s ArcGIS Maps for Power BI now makes it easier for organizations to get the most from their maps with two new capabilities. ArcGIS Maps for Power BI supports secure reference layers hosted in ArcGIS Online. New organizational purchase of Plus subscriptions for ArcGIS Maps for Power BI.
» Read moreThis month we have major updates across all areas of Power BI Desktop. Along with many other reporting features, we have our biggest update to conditional formatting in while, the ability to format any fields, including strings and dates, by a different field in the model. Drillthrough also gets a major update this month with the ability to carry all filters through to the destination page. We are also enabling enterprise level scalability through incremental data refresh.
» Read moreIn this follow up session to “Power BI Modeling Best Practices for Business Users” noted Author and Power BI MVP, Avi Singh, will dive into Power BI and walk through some real world scenarios of creating a Power BI Data Model while following the best practices
» Read moreToday, as part of Build, we announced that Power BI Custom Visuals will be rolling out in Preview to Office 365 subscribers enrolled in the Office Insiders program soon, extending Excel charting capabilities and more than doubling the data visualization options for the most widely used data analytics tool in the world.
» Read moreThe new driver comparison tool uses historical data from NASCAR’s robust data warehouse to compare two drivers at all the tracks on this year’s schedule. Now, for the first time, fans can compare the full racing profile of two drivers all in one place. This is just the first step in a greater effort for NASCAR to share race data with fans in a new and exciting way.
» Read moreLast year I went to our CMO Chris Capossela’s talk called “What’s Great Data in Microsoft”. In this talk, he listed five of the most important characteristics of good data: self-describe, fresh, forward thinking, inclusive, and adopted. The last one – adopted – is what he emphasized the most, and he challenged us to think harder about turning data into business actions.
» Read moreThis blog post covers the latest updates for Power BI Developers community- Power BI Embedded and Custom Visuals.
» Read moreWe are excited to announce that we have just released the April update for the On-premises data gateway. Here are some of the things that we would like to highlight with this month’s release:…
» Read moreOn tax day this year USAFacts is relying on Power BI to publish a 10-k report to provide a comprehensive view of the combined US federal, state and local governments’ revenues and expenditures. The data is collected from multiple government sources including the US Treasury Department, the Office of Management and Budget, the US Census Bureau, and the Federal Reserve.
» Read moreAn exciting PowerApps Webinar this week covering an important part of the Common Data Service for Applications: Understanding PowerApps Model Driven App Templates
» Read more