How to enable Excel Pro’s to use Power BI Datasets
In the steps below, I am going to demonstrate how to access your Power BI Dataset through Excel. This is a great example for people who love Excel and use it as their tool of choice, but the company or organization still wants to have a single version of the data. By leveraging the steps below the data is available…
Power BI Embedded InfoGraphic
There has recently been a lot of talk around Power BI Embedded for various reasons. The first being that Power BI Embedded can be used to for Power BI Reporting requirements, where the users are viewing it from an internal application. This can work for existing applications where a business has data. As well as potentially as another avenue to…
Power BI – Using a Slicer to show different measures
I was on the Power BI Community where a question was asked how to use a Slicer to show different measures in a chart. I personally do it all the time, but after some searching trying to find a potential blog post to reference, I could not find anything suitable. So here is how to do it.
Nov 2017 Update to Power BI Overview Infographic
There has been quite a few changes and updates since I last reviewed my Power BI Overview Infographic. I thought it was time for an update, and here is what has been updated. Please feel free to share this with other people new to Power BI, or people who want to get a more general feeling of all the moving…
BI-RoundUp – Power BI (Nov 2017 Desktop Update – Single Sign-On for Gateway Data Sources)
It is the start of the second week, and that meant that there was an update for Power BI Desktop, as well as some of the other related Services. I do hope you enjoy this weeks updates. Power BI – Nov 2017 Desktop Update As you can see we now have the Power BI Desktop update for November 2017. And…
Overview of what is coming to Power BI in the next few months!
With all the recent updates and announcements from SQL Pass, as well as the Power BI World Tour. And there is a lot of great things to look forward to coming in the next few months! Please understand that some of the pictures I have got from Twitter or elsewhere, so whilst they are not the greatest image quality, but…
BI-RoundUp – Power BI (Power BI Report Server GA Update – Announcements from SQL Pass – Help improve Power BI – How Data will Influence the future of Story Telling)
Here is my weekly BI RoundUp, it is a day late but I thought there might be more announcements from SQL Pass, so decided to delay it by one day. So here are this week’s updates. Power BI – Power BI Report Server GA Update With SQL Pass, there has been an announcement that you can now download and either…
BI-RoundUp – Power BI (Choosing the best licensing for you and your Organisation – On-premise data Gateway Update – Developer Community Update – Duplicate Workspaces using the REST APIs
Here is the weekly BI Roundup Power BI – Choosing the best licensing for you and your Organisation In this blog post from the Microsoft Power BI team, they go through the different licensing options that are available. They also go through the differences between Power BI Pro and Power BI Premium. As well as give some answers to the…
Power Query – How to get same row number for x number of rows
I was answering a question on the Power BI Community Forum where a user was looking to get some data from an Excel spreadsheet into Power BI. And in order for me to complete it, I wanted to get the same row number for x number of rows. Example I had some sample data where the same data was repeated…
How to use Bookmarks in Power BI for Seamless Report Navigation
In the latest update of Power BI Desktop, there now is the capability to be able to use Bookmarks. What bookmarks does is allow you to create an informative way in which you can tell your story. It really is an awesome feature and something that I know a lot of people have been asking for. If you want more details…