Organizations that start with Power BI often ask me "Jesse, how do you go about development, test and production environments when using Power BI?". I have decided to write about my experiences - I have been implementing Power BI since the beginning of the product - and share you my ideas. The reason why this
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In Microsoft BI, a tabular model is often the way to go. OLAP gets more and more often replaced by Tabular cubes and Power BI models. However, it's really hard to create a model that covers the whole enterprise. In this post I propose a solution for doing just that in a simple way. In
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The last two and a half years I have been helping organizations adopt and implement Power BI. With the right approach Power BI can be a huge success. But if you are not sure how to do it right, you might make the data landscape messier and more confusing. Here are the 5 simple lessons
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In an enterprise environment there are various ways of how users can interact with data using Power BI. Some users have a need for consuming pre-defined management reports, while other users wish to build their own datasets and create their own analysis. In discussion with colleagues we came up with five types of business users
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Recently Microsoft re-launched PowerBI Embedded as part of the PowerBI Premium offering. Instead of a pay-per-view pricing model Microsoft now offers dedicated capacity. There are three parts to get this new PowerBI Embedded working: Configuration in Azure (Register an app, activate the PowerBI Embedded capacity) Configuration in the PowerBI service (create a PowerBI app and
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In this post I am going to discuss how to design a dashboard in Power BI. What makes a good dashboard work? I think a good dashboard tells you immediately how you are doing. Not just "show me the numbers". KPI's are just as important. What is a measure without a target?
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Using Power BI Embedded you can integrate your report in a website or web-application. To do so there are three parts you need to do: Configure your Azure environment Add a Power BI workspace to this environment and upload a report Implement the code to generate a token and embed your report In this last
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Using Power BI Embedded you can integrate your report in a website or web-application. To do so there are three parts you need to do: Configure your Azure environment Add a Power BI workspace to this environment and upload a report Implement the code to generate a token and embed your report In this post
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Using Power BI Embedded you can integrate your report in a website or web-application. To do so there are three parts you need to do: Configure your Azure environment Add a Power BI workspace to this environment and upload a report Implement the code to generate a token and embed your report In this post
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When you are creating Power BI reports. Do you develop them online or in desktop mode? If you are doing pure self service BI for quick prototyping, it doesn't matter all that much. However, if you use live connections, you may want to use Desktop since you can easily switch between test and production servers.
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