Power Pivot is an amazing, flexible and powerful business intelligence tool (among other things) and there is no doubt about that fact. As a feature included with Excel 2013 and 2016 (and an add-on for Excel 2010), Power Pivot allows user with a little technical expertise to integrate disparate data source together within a flexible data model. Once the data is loaded into Power Pivot, we easily have the ability to create powerful calculated measures, key performance indicators Continue reading Taking #PowerPivot to the Next Level
Category Archives: Power View
Importing Power Pivot & Power View into Power BI
The Power BI August update just rolled out today (8/20/2015) and in the latest update there’s a lot of cool, new enhancements such as writing custom MDX or DAX queries to access your SSAS data sources, connectors for Azure HDInsight Spark and Azure SQL Data Warehouse (so awesome!), some various UI improvements and a bunch more. But one of the coolest features (and much needed IMHO) is that we now have the ability to import Excel artifacts, such as Power Pivot models and Power View reports straight into Power BI Desktop!
New to Power BI Desktop? Read this first!
Import your Power Pivot Model into Power BI
To begin importing a Continue reading Importing Power Pivot & Power View into Power BI
Importing Excel Power View Dashboards into Power BI
If your organization is now a Power BI customer, congratulations. You’re now ready to create some very cool dashboards, integrate disparate and disconnected data sources and take advantage of Power BI’s ability to modify and transform your data, build interactive and dynamic dashboards and then share them with your team and organization. But until you create your dashboards to take advantage of the new visualization types and other improvements, you can easily import any existing Power View sheets in Excel into your Power BI site.
Above you’ll see an example of a Power View dashboard that I will import into my Power BI site. Continue reading Importing Excel Power View Dashboards into Power BI
Power BI Desktop: My First Run Through
If PowerPivot, Power Query, and Power View had a baby (don’t ask how) that baby would be called Power BI Desktop Designer. Yesterday the Power BI Desktop Designer was released for general availability, which I promptly downloaded last night at 11:30 PM EST and started playing with. Even as my wife turned out the light and begged me to go to sleep, I persisted! I was too excited. So here’s my first run through (I call it run through because it was late and I didn’t spend a ton of time looking at every little thing).
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Download Power BI Desktop
Ok first things first. Download the Power BI Desktop Designer so you can start playing!
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=45331
Installing it is pretty straight forward so I’ll spare you the details.
Get Data with Power BI Desktop
The first thing I did after installing the Power BI Desktop Designer was Continue reading Power BI Desktop: My First Run Through
Choose Your Weapon: Power BI Edition
With an estimated 500 million Excel users in the world, it’s no wonder that Excel is the #1 business intelligence too in many organizations around the globe. And with the release of Excel 2013, the collection of powerful and flexible data analysis tools built into Excel has only continued to grow. Microsoft is constantly adding new features and functionality to Power BI at pretty fast rate, so now is a great time to start learning about everything that MS Power BI can offer your organization.
Because Excel is just full of a slew of incredible tools, its important for us to understand the difference between the tools, when you should choose each tool, and the Continue reading Choose Your Weapon: Power BI Edition