Last week on May 17th the Power BI team announced the release of the Power BI Report Server preview. Power BI Report Server includes the ability to host Power BI reports, along with traditional SQL Server Reporting Services content, within the boundaries of your organization’s firewall.
I put together the following video that Continue reading Setting up the Power BI Report Server Preview
Download the latest version of the Power BI Architecture Diagram here!
Over the past couple weeks there has been a ton of news and announcements around the direction Microsoft is taking Power BI. Between Power BI Premium and Power BI Report Server, my head has been spinning trying to stay educated on all the new changes and enhancements. With all these announcements, it was definitely time to update my Power BI architecture diagram to reflect the addition of Power BI Premium and Power BI Report Server.
Here’s how to install and set up Power BI Report Server (Preview)
I’ve made a few changes in v3 of the Power BI architecture diagram. Continue reading Power BI Architecture Diagram v3 is Now Available!
Today I had the wonderful pleasure for leading a discussion regarding the products, services, and tools Microsoft provides in the business intelligence stack. I met with Jacksonville University students and faculty and also had the pleasure of speaking with members of local businesses that are interested in leveraging Microsoft technologies. It was a wonderful experience and I had a great time!
If you’d like to download my slide deck from the discussion and presentation today, you can find that here.
If you’ve been at least paying attention to my blog a little bit, you’ve probably noticed I occasionally blog about Power BI. Part of the reason I blog so often about Power BI is because that’s the topic of a whole bunch of conversations I’m having with my customers. The other reason is that the customer I’m speaking with have lots of questions about Power BI. So consider this one of my efforts at scaling myself.
View and download my latest Power BI architecture diagram here!
If you enjoy this “Power BI tips and tricks” type posts, check out my first five Power BI tips and then my second five Power BI tips. You’ll probably enjoy those if you found this post helpful. So without further ado, I present to you more Power BI tips that I truly hope you’ll find helpful.
I had a call with a customer this morning discussing different ways to publish Power BI content and how to share Power BI datasets, reports, and dashboards. A colleague, Patrick Leblanc (b|t), and I had a discussion about this, as well, and Patrick confirmed that this was a common challenge that his customers have faced. I thought I’d share what Patrick and I learned.
New to Power BI? Check out these Power BI tips.
If you have followed my blog for the past year or so you may remember when I posted a Power BI workbook I created to analyze the previous season’s NFL player stats to help me with my fantasy football draft. I know, its nerdy, but I like Power BI and I like fantasy football so I thought why not?
Download the latest version of the NFL Fantasy Football reports here!
With the new NFL season upon us, I thought I’d update my fantasy football report with the stats from the Continue reading Power BI NFL Fantasy Football 2016 Reports
For my second time, I was afforded the great opportunity to present virtually to the great people of the Madison Power BI User Group. I’m always really excited when someone invites me back a second time to speak because that means that the first time wasn’t completely awful! We had a great time last evening discussing Continue reading Introduction to Power BI Desktop – Session Materials Available
Thank you to everyone that attended this past Tuesday’s webinar hosted by Pragmatic Works called Introduction to Power BI Desktop. We had a great turn out! If you missed the webinar, you can view the recording here.
Check out these five Power BI tips!
There were lots of great questions and far too many to answer during the webinar so I thought I’d answer a few of the questions here.
Continue reading Introduction to Power BI Desktop – Recording Now Available
Last night at approximately 9:28 PM EST the June 2016 release of Power BI Desktop dropped, which you can download here. The June update is pretty extensive and includes a bunch of new features and improvements. Here’s some of the biggest new features and some of my favorites.
Check out these 5 Power BI Tips
Continue reading June 2016 Release of Power BI Desktop is Here!
I’ve had this blog post in my mind to write for the past month or so and I’m finally just getting around to it while I’m waiting to board my flight back home.
Check out my first 5 Power BI Tips here
These are just five more Power BI tips and tricks that I think everyone should know in order to get the most out of Power BI and produce better, more useful, and more powerful Power BI reports for their users. So without further ado, here are five more Power BI tips in no particular order. Enjoy!
