(Copied from: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-personal-bookmarks-in-the-power-bi-service/) Announcing Personal Bookmarks in the Power BI Service Nikhil Gaekwad Product Manager, Power BI Earlier last year, we announced bookmarking to be generally available in Power BI Desktop. Bookmarks are currently used by many report authors to share interesting insights, tell a story, and create intuitive navigation elements within a report. Since … Read More →
The Microsoft Power BI team recently introduced dataflows. I’m currently in the process of researching this exciting new technology and came across this article, from Adi Regev, that I wanted to share with you: Introducing: Power BI data prep with dataflows In the modern BI world, data preparation is considered the most difficult, expensive, and … Read More →
(Copied from: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-december-2018-feature-summary/) December is a huge month for us in terms of accessibility. With this release, the entire product supports screen readers, keyboard navigation and high contrast for both report consumption and report creation. We are also previewing one of the most asked for features related to Q&A, support for live connect! We also … Read More →
(Copied from: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/modeling-view-in-power-bi-desktop/) The new modeling view for Power BI Desktop is here! See the announcement in the November Power BI Desktop feature summary. It is designed to work with enterprise datasets that grow in complexity. Such datasets can easily contain over 100 tables. Here is a summary of what you can do with the … Read More →
A question I get asked sometimes, during my Power BI trainings is, can I use PowerPoint to display my Power BI reports and dashboards? Yes of course, I usually answer, and then I explain, that in your Power BI workspace, when you select your report, in the File menu there’s the following option: You simply … Read More →
Let’s get started. In Power BI Desktop, select Get Data, More: Authenticate using your Office 365 credentials (email & password), end then select a query: In this case, I’m filtering the navigator on queries that contain the word item in their name, and then I select Edit to verify the query in the query editor: … Read More →
Did you know that with Power BI you can connect to GitHub and create a stunning dashboard, like this one: Do you recognize it? It’s a dashboard about https://github.com/Microsoft/AL, which is the repo for developing extensions for Dynamics 365 “Tenerife” 🙂 How do I do this you might think? Well, it’s very easy, all you need … Read More →
Here’s a small teaser about the attendees for my workshop at NAV TechDays… Embed code Link you can send in email: https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiMzEzZjNlYWUtOWEyNy00MzQ2LWIxOWYtNDk0ZDQyMzQzMTk1IiwidCI6ImU1N2JmZjczLWY5YjQtNDliNS1hZWE1LWM2ZmRlNDFhYzljMiIsImMiOjh9 Link you can send in email: <iframe width=”933″ height=”700″ src=”https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiMzEzZjNlYWUtOWEyNy00MzQ2LWIxOWYtNDk0ZDQyMzQzMTk1IiwidCI6ImU1N2JmZjczLWY5YjQtNDliNS1hZWE1LWM2ZmRlNDFhYzljMiIsImMiOjh9″ frameborder=”0″ allowFullScreen=”true”></iframe>
It is now possible to subscribe to a report to receive an email with a snapshot of that page to your inbox. You will receive an email snapshot of each report page when the report is refreshed. If the report doesn’t refresh, you will not receive a snapshot email that day. If the report refreshes more … Read More →
Somewhere in mid 2017 Microsoft will release a new version of SQL Server in which we will have an integration with Power BI. This means we will (I hope) be able to use SSRS as an on premise solution to host Power BI reports, as you can read here on the SQL Server Reporting Services … Read More →
Watch this How Do I video to learn how to embed Power BI reports in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017. The demonstration covers the following steps: how to authorize the application selecting reports report navigation sharing reports Learn more at http://aka.ms/NAVGetReady
Have you heard of Microsoft Flow? No, well then please have a look here: https://flow.microsoft.com You can use it to create automated workflows between apps and services to get notifications, synchronize files, collect data, and more. So, in the context of let’s say Power BI, you can use Flow to synchronize data sources. In this blog … Read More →
When you use Power BI Desktop (or Power Query) to connect to a Dynamics NAV ODATA feed, the URL you pass looks like this: http://thinkaboutit:7048/NAV2016CU6/OData/Company(‘CRONUS%20BELGI%C3%8B%20NV’)/ where thinkaboutit is the server running your service tier, 7048 is the ODATA port and NAV2016CU6 is the Service Tier Instance. Company(‘CRONUS%20BELGI%C3%8B%20NV’)/ means that you are retrieving data from a … Read More →
I have been asked this question a couple of times, during Power BI trainings and presentations. For some companies it’s important to know where exactly, in which country, data is stored. Well, in PowerBI.com, you can go to Help, About and find out: And voila, now you know 🙂
Recently I had the honor of presenting a webinar about Power BI and Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_nWPvBkU9w
The recording has been uploaded and is available here. Enjoy 😉
And, of course, I would like to thank Mark Brummel for inviting me for this webinar!