Updated May 2022 I update this blog article regularly to keep track of how Microsoft is progressing on its strategic journey in building a world class BI platform. Gartner released the 2022 magic quadrant for Business Intelligence in March 2022. As expected (by me at least), Microsoft is continuing its […]
Every now and then I write an off-topic blog post; today is one of those days. In the past I have shared how I manage my time, in case you are interested in going back and reading that one. Today I want to give you some motivation to save well […]
One interesting trend I have seen over the last 12 months is the creation of a lot more non-technical Power BI content on the web. Adam Saxton and Patrick LeBlanc were early adopters of this format with their YouTube channel “Guy in a Cube”. More recently there have been new […]
The Ghostbusters Ultimately Ignored this Advice. So Shall We. (Our daring joint podcast is now available here) Greetings, Excel-er-readers! Hi folks! Some of you may know me – I was the “OG” Power BI blogger starting back in 2010, and was the only game in town for years. Eventually though […]
Until recently, I had not spent a lot of time building Power BI Reporting solutions that have SharePoint Online as a data source (This article refers to SharePoint Online specifically, but I am sure the experience is the same with on premise SharePoint). Over the last month or so I […]
Last week in Orlando Florida, Microsoft held its annual Ignite conference. I have never been to Ignite but it is on my list of things to do in the future. There are always lots of announcements at this conference but there was one announcement that I haven’t seen much publicity […]
Updated Feb 2019. This is an edited version of my original article which first appeared on my site in Feb 2016. The rate of change in the tools available to a Business Analyst has never been faster than it is today. The market is changing so quickly that many Business […]
At the start of May 2017, Microsoft announced that Export to Excel/CSV would no longer be available to Power B Free users, and would not be part of the new Power BI Premium offering either. Today Microsoft announced that it has listened to community feedback and has agreed to include this […]
I am an enthusiastic sponsor of Microsoft BI. I have been fortunate enough to build a new career off the back of the great products Microsoft has developed, specifically Power BI, Power Pivot and Power Query. Having said that, I am definitely disappointed with the new licensing agreement changes have […]
Edit Feb 2017: I am very excited to discover that download report now works as I would expect. This blog post was going to be about how excited I was to hear that there is now an option to download a PBIX file from the Power BI Service to your […]
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