As Power BI enthusiasts and consultants, we are building tons of reports. All with the goal to enable the business to take data driven decisions by providing them with the right information at the right time. Though, if your reporting audience is growing, there is no way to satisfy all your users. Of course, the …
Over a year ago, I wrote a blog about Multiple tier architecture and continuous delivery with Power BI, mainly an overview of the setup and manually creating development and production content. This blog will continue this story in more detail of Power BI CI/CD with Azure DevOps automated deployments. A solution where Dave Ruijter, Ton …
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Dataflows are part of the Power BI service for a while now. More and more people are starting to benefit from it in multiple perspectives. The two most heard ones are re-use of data (and logic), but also isolate refreshes to avoid dependencies of refresh failures from different sources.Same as for your data sources, you …
Continue reading Move dataflows across workspaces with the Power BI REST API
Last week, on Friday Septembre 13th, I presented at Data:Scotland. As the name already suggests, in Scotland, Glasgow to be precise. An awesome community event with loads of intresting people and reality well organized. Definitely one to put on your list to visit once! At this event, I presented my all new session about "AI …
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It has been a month since my last blog. Busy times with a lot of interesting projects, so less time for writing blogs. Last weekend I was traveling to Power Saturday in Paris. So now I finally had some time to write the blog I was thinking about for a while. Dataflows! Power BI dataflows …
Continue reading Inform your end-users by embedding dataflow refresh times in your Power BI reports
Last week, I was challenged by moving my Power BI dataset through the next stage in my DTAP pipeline. I simply wanted to re-assign my connections to the data source in the next stage. In my case, I created a separate workspace including separate dataflows for each stage. Since de dataflows connector in Power BI is …
In some cases, you might want to split your report and data model into separate Power BI Desktop files. For example, to work in together on the same content or create multiple reports based on the same dataset. There can be many reasons to do this. But once you started building everything one file, you …
Microsoft rolled out a new embedding feature for Power BI content. Next to the already known features as Embed in SharePoint Online, Publish to Web and Power BI Embedded, there is a new feature available now! Power BI Secure Embedding allows you to embed your content to client applications or sites while maintaining all security …
We live in a busy and stressful era. In our daily business we can not wait for weeks, months or even longer to get our insights. So we need to deliver faster. Therefor we are working agile to realize continuous delivery of results. The agile approach helps us to deliver small artifacts to the end-user …
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In a growing popularity of Power BI, the content within Power BI is growing exponentially as well. With that, it is harder to find your favorite content within the Power BI service. Therefor the Power BI team introduced the option to mark items as a favorite with which you can create a sub-selection of your …
