I have seen many different types of custom calendars implemented in Power Pivot, Tabular, and DAX. I also wrote several articles ( week based calendars and time patterns ). However, there is a scenario that is hard to manage with the classical approaches,  Read more

Microsoft recently released a public preview of Power BI Dashboard . This new service is raising interest because of new visualizations and for the openness to developers, thanks to APIs that can be used also for real-time visualizations . Are you interested  Read more

Microsoft released a new version of Power BI in preview mode, including many new visualizations that are immediately available to all existing subscribers also in production, such as the long waited treemap, combo charts (combining line chart and column  Read more

This morning the PASS Summit 2014 started in Seattle and during the keynote there was several announcements from Microsoft. I’m considering here only the ones about Business Intelligence (you will find other blogs around about SQL Server). In the coming  Read more

Power BI offers many tools to explore a data model created in Power Pivot, such as Excel, Power View, and Q&A. You can improve the user experience and the accessibility of information by creating the data model in a proper…  Watch now

Today at TechEd Europe 2014 Miguel Llopis made the first public show of Power Query support for Analysis Services. This is still not available, but it should be released soon (hopefully it will be our Christmas gift!). Here is a list of features shown:  Read more

In a Corporate BI environment, it is common having data available in controlled data sources such as Data Warehouse, relational Data Marts, Analysis Services cubes. Consuming this data with self-service BI is very useful, but how do you manage and…  Watch now

Power BI offers many tools to explore a data model created in Power Pivot, such as Excel, Power View and Q&A. You can improve the user experience and the accessibility of information by creating the data model in a proper…  Watch now

In a Corporate BI environment, it is common having data available in controlled data sources such as Data Warehouse, relational Data Marts, and Analysis Services cubes. Consuming this data with self-service BI is very useful, but how do you manage…  Watch now