(Image twitted by Naomi Moneypenny here) Some of the new features that we have been waiting for a long time have been demoed on the Day 1 of WPC 2014 in Washington DC. Although the demo was very brief, we were able to see new types of visualizations such as heat/tree maps, gauges, funnels, etc. … Continue reading New Features of Power BI Demoed at WPC 14
I am very excited to report that as of few days ago, the HTML5 engine for Power View has closed some major gaps with the Silverlight Power View engine. In February of this year I wrote a post comparing various Power View artifacts between Silverlight, HTML5 and Power BI Windows 8 App. At the time, … Continue reading HTML5 Engine for PowerView Getting More Updates
SSDT-BI were down for almost a month after the release of the SQL Server 2014 causing a lot of frustration to the end users who were trying to develop BI solutions using Visual Studio 2013. No point of getting into the reasons why, let's just take a deep breath and download the latest version here … Continue reading SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT-BI) for Visual Studio 2013 are back and available for download
This has happened to me a few times now and every single time I had to spend quite a bit of time sifting through the blogs looking for answers. So I finally decided to document it for myself here. These are the steps: Go ahead and restore the MDS database on the server of your … Continue reading How to restore your MDS database on a different domain/server and fix the “Access Denied” error
Time for another correction… A couple of months ago I wrote a post about how to load data into a Power Pivot model using Power Query. As I was writing it, I was very excited about being able to decouple my Power Pivot models from physical data by using Power Query. Unfortunately, at a time, … Continue reading Date Management Gateway Now Supports Refresh from Power Query
Just a few months ago I wrote a post about what Power View features were supported by Silverlight and HTML5 versions of the product. Today I had to make some corrections, as Maps are now supported in HTML5. The Power BI application for Windows 8 still does not render the map (or the scatter … Continue reading Power View HTML5 Now Supports Maps
Here is an interesting article on how to pass a filter condition to a Power View report in SharePoint. One of the biggest complaints that I get as I demo Power View in SharePoint is its inability to save custom preferences for different user groups. In other words, if I have a dashboard built … Continue reading Passing parameters to Power View reports in SharePoint to force filter condition
On April 18 Power Map got updated, although if you have a Click-to-Run installed version of Office 365 Pro, you would never know it since these updates are pushed automatically. Here is a link describing the new features, other than some cosmetic updates, ability to add audio to a tour is probably one of the … Continue reading April Update for Power Map Adds Audio, Clears Confusion
In this post I wanted to address several general confusions about Power BI and Microsoft Office. Sometimes I wonder if these confusions have been engineered by design or whether they occurred serendipitously… The most important point to understand is that Power BI is intended to be bundled with the Office 365 Pro version of the … Continue reading Support of Power BI across various versions of Microsoft Office
I just finished watching the hosted customer even in San Francisco where the Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, COO Kevin Turner, CVP of Data Platform Group Quentin Clark and the SQL Server Product Marketing GM Eron Kelly officially introduced the new release of the SQL Server 2014. In this post I am not going to give … Continue reading Few thoughts on the SQL Server 2014 launch event in San Francisco
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