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

Just a few days before my session about Power Query at TechEd 2014 , Microsoft released a new update that enables the scheduled data refresh of a Power Pivot workbook containing Power Query transformations. This is a very good news, because it enables  Read more

Between May and July I and Alberto will be speaker at several conferences, and I think it could be useful to write a single blog post with a recap: PASS Business Analytics Conference 2014 – May 7-9, 2014 – San Jose, California Querying in DAX (Marco Russo)  Read more

The current version of Power Query does not have a user interface to create a Distinct Count calculation in a Group By operation. However, you can do this in “M” with a simple edit of the code generated by the Power Query window. Consider the following  Read more

Now that Power BI is finally available (I still use terms as “released” for software and “in production” for a service…) I made some test on the new Scheduled Refresh option that you have for your models (other info here . First of all, the Refresh feature  Read more