I'm excited to announce the fourth edition of my Applied Microsoft Power BI book! When the original book was published in January 2016, it was the first Power BI book at that time and it had less than 300 pages. Since then, I helped many companies adopt or transition to Power BI and taught hundreds of students. It's been a great experience to witness the…
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Power BI lets you share content directly with external users for B2B and B2C scenarios. When the benefits of this sharing option outweigh its limitations (read-only reports, requiring Azure AD federated access, per-user licensing, rendering the report inside Power BI), this is the easiest way to share Power BI content with an external party. However, the documentation, which is otherwise excellent, doesn't explain the steps…
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Bring your data to life today and learn how Power BI changes the way everyone gains insights from data. Publication date: 1/1/2019 Size: 474 pages, 7.5" x 9.25" Price: $49.99 ISBN 10: 0-9766353-9-9 ISBN 13: 978-0-9766353-9-0 Introduces information workers, data analysts, IT pros, and developers to Microsoft Power BI — a cloud-hosted, business intelligence and analytics platform that democratizes and opens BI to everyone,…
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Happy Holidays! I hope you're enjoying this special time of the year. According to Gartner, "poor data quality is hitting organizations where it hurts – to the tune of $15 million as the average annual financial cost in 2017". Data integration is another huge challenge, you know it and I know it. Microsoft hopes that Power BI dataflows will help data analysts tackle these issues…
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Bring your data to life today and learn how Power BI changes the way everyone gains insights from data. Publication date: 1/1/2018 Size: 426 pages, 7.5" x 9.25" Price: $49.99 ISBN 10: 0-9766353-8-0 ISBN 13: 978-0-9766353-8-3 There is a newer edition of this book Introduces information workers, data analysts, IT pros, and developers to Microsoft Power BI — a cloud-hosted, business intelligence and analytics…
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If you have used SSRS, you know that paginated reports are very customizable, and you can make almost any property expression-based. Power BI is yet to deliver expression-based properties to change settings based on runtime condition, such as to change the font style based on the actual value or user selection. Currently, there are two places where you can use a DAX measure for expression-based…
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