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…
Data Insights Summit Details – Day 1 Summary
With the Microsoft Data Insights Summit that is currently happening in Seattle the Power BI team has been really busy letting us know what features are coming and what to get excited about in the coming months, so below is a quick overview of what has been released after Day 1.
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…
Power BI – Dynamic Banding across all fields
I had a requirement from the customer where I am consulting and what they wanted was to be able to have dynamic banding. So that no matter what they put into the table it would show the banding where it would not go greater than the banding amount. This is easiest shown with an image, so if the band was…
BI-NSIGHT – Power BI (Zoom Charts – Preview Power BI Report Server – Featured Data Stories)
For once it has been a quieter week in the world of BI, so here are the updates below. Power BI – Zoom Charts I have to say that it has been a while since a visual has really impressed me and the Zoom Visuals do just that. They provide an almost natural way to interact with your data via…
Power BI Desktop/DAX – Using Unicode (Arrows) as Measures in a Table
I was helping out in the Power BI Community and I came across the following requirement. The user had sales figures and based on the Previous month, they wanted to have an arrow showing if it was up or down. As well as if there was no data to say that there was no data. So this is how I…
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…