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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Happy first birthday, Power BI! Exactly one year ago, Power BI was released in public. But this wasn't the only release: one month after the public release of Power BI my daughter Sanne was born.
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While looking into the possibilities of moving my customer's BI infrastructure into the cloud, my primary question was how to handle the lack of cloud SSAS. But there's a lot more to keep in mind. Here's a few things that I think should be thought of from an architectural point of view: not only in
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Some time ago I read Chris Webb blogged "Thoughts On The Power BI Announcements At The MS Data Insights Summit", where between the lines was this rather interesting point: For the last few years my customers have asked me when MS was going to release SSAS in the cloud and I’ve always replied that Power
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A few weeks ago, I blogged about my experiences with the Analysis Services Connector. Because the Enterprise Gateway was still in preview back then, I didn't want to use that in production yet. Meanwhile the Enterprise Gateway has been released, so it's time to update my findings.
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