Power BI – Overview Infographic

I like to keep up to date with what is going on with Power BI. And with all the recent changes I have spent some time updating my Power BI Overview Infographic to better represent all the new changes. You will see that I have changed the way that it looks and divided it into 3 sections based on how…

BI-RoundUp – Power BI (Interactive Custom R Visuals – Community Blog- Data Refresh APIs – Facebook Solution Template – Help Improve Power BI Desktop)

Here is the weekly Power BI Round Up, not too much going on which is a good thing after all the announcements from the Microsoft Data Insights Summit last week. Power BI – Interactive Custom R Visuals With R being so popular, as well as it being announced at the recent Microsoft Data Insights Summit, the Power BI team has…

BI-RoundUp – Power BI (June Desktop Update – Data Insights Summit Details – Power BI Embedded Pricing & Details – Power BI Premium Generally Available – Power BI Report Server Generally Available)

I was fairly certain that there were going to be a whole host of updates and additions to Power BI, and I can say that I am not disappointed. There is a whole host of information below, where I will endeavour to try and get it all to you, so this might be a bit long to read, but it…

BI-RoundUp – Power BI (Service Update April & May – Personal Gateway Update – How to Purchase Power BI Premium – Managing Power BI Premium – Memory Consumption in Power BI File – Power BI – Exposing M Code)

It has been a busy week with the start of another month leading into June, so here are the updates. I am pretty confident that with the Microsoft Data Insights Summit happening Monday & Tuesday of next week that the new version of Power BI Desktop, as well as some new features will be revealed then. And I cannot wait,…

DAX – Getting the Previous Year to Date Value up to and including the Current Month Selected – Not the entire Previous Year

So for this example it is best explained with an image below, then some additional context afterwards If you look above we have got the [Sum of Sales] for Dec 2010-11 NOTE: This I selected in the Slicer on the right hand side. Then I have created a Year to Date (YTD) measure which is the running total for the Year…

BI-RoundUp – Power BI (Usage Metrics – Mobile Apps May 2017- Stream Data Insights Summit – Processing Suggestion Idea’s for Power BI)

Here is this week’s BI-RoundUp with some great content below. Power BI – Usage Metrics You now have the capability to be able to view the usage metrics for your dashboards and reports in Power BI. This is a great feature, because it now gives the organization the capability to see how well the dashboards and reports are being used,…

BI-RoundUp – Power BI (Office 365 Adoption Content Pack – Embedded Accelerator) – Excel (Get & Transform Updates May 2017)

This will no doubt be a quieter week, leading up towards the end of May and into June when there will be the next wave of updates from the Microsoft Power BI Team You might also notice that I have changed the name from BI-NSIGHT to BI-Roundup, as there was another blogger who has his blog URL as BiInsights, so…