BI-NSIGHT – Power BI (Data Connector SDK, Analytics Challenge, April Service Content Packs, ArcGIS May Update) – Azure (SSAS Model into Azure
After all the announcements last week here are this week’s updates.
Power BI – Data Connector SDK
I know that this has been something that I have seen asked on the Power BI Community, as well as thought about in terms of having the capability to create your own Custom Data Connector in Power BI.
Don’t get me wrong they have supplied a vast array of connectors already. But by creating the SDK this means that now virtually ANY data, or even potentially anything could be integrated into Power BI. I saw a tweet from Kasper mentioning a data connector for Strava (Which I use a lot for my exercising, as well as having a wealth of data).
You can find all the details here: Data Connector SDK Developer Preview
Power BI – Analytics Challenge
With the Microsoft Data Insights summit coming up they have created an Analytics challenge in three area’s.
Complex Data Preparation, Advanced Analytics and Just for Fun.
It will be really interesting to see what people can do, I am hopeful that I will submit something.
Here are the details: Announcing the Microsoft Data Insights Summit Analytics Challenge
Power BI – April Service Content Packs
There is a new feature from the Power BI Team which as you can see above is to give more details around what are the new Service Content Packs for each month. So as you can see there are quite a few new service content packs for April 2017.
You can read the blog post here if any of the above interest you: Power BI April Service Content Packs
Power BI – ArcGIS May Update
As you can see from above the people from ArcGIS are now updating it on a nearly monthly cadence.
In this month’s updates you now can use Drive Time Area’s, as well as Tooltip fields and a host of bug fixes.
You can find the blog post details here: What’s New in ArcGIS Maps for Power BI (May 2017)
Azure – Getting your SSAS Model into Azure
This is a great blog post by Kasper De Jonge where he shows you how to get your SSAS Tabular model into Azure.
You can find more details here: Getting your on premises SSAS Tabular model to Azure
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