Whether you’re presenting a budget, analyzing inventory, or projecting sales figures, it can be difficult to effectively present your data. How do you tell a story and guide your listener trough the multiple data points? We can help! The new presentation mode in the Power BI Mobile app is specifically designed for the Surface Hub and other big touch screens, so you can bring data presentation to the next level.
» Read moreWith this month’s release of Power BI publisher for Excel, we’ve improved the experience of connecting to Power BI data from Excel, allowing you to connect to data in read-only groups and connect to reports and datasets that were shared with you.
» Read moreOn September 26–27, the Microsoft Data Science Summit will host an interactive event on the disruptive technologies and innovative solutions in big data, advanced analytics, and machine learning.
» Read moreThis week brings us two of the best presenters from down under: Dr Greg Low from Australia and Reza Rad from New Zealand. Reza will be kicking off the week on August 23 with the most requested webinar topic, best practices around implementing Row-level security with Power BI, and Greg will be delivering one of the most popular modules from his Business Intelligence classes on August 25.
» Read moreThis month in gateways, we’ve added support for new data sources for the on-premises data gateway, and the Power BI personal gateway. In this blog we will walk you through these new data sources, and also talk about monitoring your gateway.
» Read moreToday we are excited to announce the release of the brand and campaign management solution template for Twitter. Now you can analyse sentiment, follow related trending topics, and find your biggest influencers, all in just minutes!
» Read moreEarlier this year, we wrote about how to leverage the Power BI REST APIs to create real-time dashboards in Power BI. Ever since, we’ve seen thousands of Power BI users engage with our real-time capabilities. As a result, today I am happy to announce the preview availability of a suite of features which make it even easier to stream real-time data to Power BI, and to see that data light up in your dashboards. Designed for easy setup, these new features show our commitment towards allowing our users to quickly gain insights from data of all shapes, sizes and velocities.
» Read morePower BI webinars for the week of 8/14 are two of the most requested topics: R and Financial Dashboards.
» Read moreOver the last few months, the Power BI extensibility team has been actively listening to you, and we’ve redesigned our developer experience based on your feedback. Today we’re happy to announce general availability of our new custom visual developer tool.
» Read moreDo you want to detect outliers in your data? Want a predictive way to complete missing values in your data, or do you want to perform other advanced analytics scenarios as part of data cleansing? Implementing advanced analytics data cleansing scenarios in Power BI is now easier than ever! Learn more about adding R steps in Power Query as part of the Power BI Desktop July Update.
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