I'm excited to announce the second Prologika Power BI Showcase - Supply Chain that was added to the Power BI Partner portal! It's based on the work we did for the world's largest package delivery company and a provider of supply chain management solutions. Prologika designed a Power BI-based solution for a Fortune 50 organization to consolidate data sources and customer service reports and make them available on…
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MS BI fans, join me for the next Atlanta MS BI Group meeting on Apr 25th and 6:30 PM. Paco Gonzalez will present the Azure Internet of Things(IoT) and I'll show you Power BI Embedded Azure cloud service. SolidQ will sponsor the event. Don't forget to RSVP at atlantabi.sqlpass.org so we can't an accurate headcount. Rate this meeting http://aka.ms/PUGSurvey, PUG ID: 104 Presentation: Introduction to…
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I while back I did a TechEd presentation "Can Your BI Solution Scale?", when I discussed a methodology for load testing SSAS and SSRS. A customer wanted to ensure that its Tabular model can scale to thousands of deployed users when it goes live. You can still use the excellent Microsoft-originated AS Load Sim framework that I demonstrated in the presentation to load test Tabular.…
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SQL Server 2016 RC3 (last and feature complete RC) just came out for public review. It includes a couple of interesting UX enhancements. The first one is more of a teaser but shows you that Microsoft is committed to fulfill and go beyond its reporting roadmap. SSRS in native mode plays a central role in this roadmap as the on-premises BI reporting platform. The new…
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As Power BI gains a momentum, expect attacks from vendors to intensify. Do you know that there are thousands of vendors offering BI tools! There is not a month passed by when I'm not asked about some cool vendor. I usually don't criticize other vendors but sometimes I get provoked by their audacity and I need to keep 'em honest. Recently, a customer shared a Sisense whitepaper "Why…
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As I explained in a previous blog, the Power BI Enterprise Gateway allows Power BI reports to connect to on-premise data source. A gateway can support multiple data sources. When setting up a data source, you'll see the Users tab on the data source properties. The users you add here will have rights to publish reports that can connect to a data source serviced by…
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Embedding reports is an extremely popular scenario for ISVs and developers coding external (customer-facing) applications. As I wrote a while back in my "Power BI Embedded Dashboards Without Authentication UI" blog, Power BI supports REST APIs that allow developers to embed dashboards and reports. However, these APIs don't support custom security so you have to provision users with Power BI. Furthermore, a hybrid architecture (reports definitions…
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