In my previous post about responsive reports, I said that changes to the report design can dramatically reduce the report load time. But you will undoubtedly reach a point where you cannot optimize the report any further. After all, having a page with a single visual might be fast, but I doubt it would deliver much business value. What else can be done to speed…
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MS BI fans, please join us online for the next Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group meeting on Monday, July 6th, at 6:30 PM. David Eldersveld, a Microsoft MVP, will demonstrate cool visualization techniques using DAX. For more details, visit our group page and don't forget to RSVP (fill in the RSVP survey if you're planning to attend). Presentation: DAX Visualization Techniques for the Power BI…
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UPDATE 11/26/2020: After the latest update to tenant settings, I'm glad that the new "Export to ..." settings don't affect external connections anymore. There is now a new setting "Allow live connections" to control external connectivity. Read "Updated Export Settings" to learn more. The Power BI "Export data" setting is horrible. I wish Microsoft never came up with it and no other Microsoft tool has…
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"Life is suffering and suffering is unavoidable". Buddha must have dealt with data gateways. Two "gotchas" that surfaced recently after countless hours of troubleshooting: A bug in the data gateway AD lookup cache – In my "Gateway AD Lookups" post, I described a very useful gateway feature to look up the on-prem user identity from a cloud identity so that you don't have to create…
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I'm currently providing advisory services to an enterprise client for architecting and implementing an executive dashboard. As a typical dashboard, the UX design included various KPIs that look like these: The Power BI report implementation followed the design and the above visualization was implemented as four cards and two textboxes. Including other UX elements, such as icons, labels, etc., the most important summary page of…
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More and more organizations are switching to Microsoft Teams mostly for online meetings. However, Microsoft Teams can deliver much more than that and it will be unjust to compare it with other popular meetings apps. In this newsletter you'll learn how Prologika helped a public school district gain important insights from Microsoft Teams. Learn more and try an interactive Power BI report in the related…
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You have deployed your Power BI reports/apps and now management is eager to use them. But how do you provide an easy one-tap shortcut for them to launch a specific report or app on mobile devices and open them in Power BI Mobile? For example, in a recent project, we had to provide executives with an easy "button" to see their executive dashboard on iPhone/iPad.…
Read article MS BI fans, please join us online for the next Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group meeting on Monday, June 1st, at 6:30 PM. Stacey Jones, a Principal Data Solutions Architect at the Atlanta Microsoft Technology Center, will introduce you to Microsoft Cognitive Services and show you how to integrate it with Power BI. For more details, visit our group page and don't forget to…
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More and more organizations are switching to Microsoft Teams mostly for online meetings. However, Microsoft Teams can deliver much more than that and it will be unjust to compare it with other popular meetings apps. What Microsoft has done with Teams is amazing! Now that I got to study and program Microsoft Teams, I have found it a powerful and extensible platform. For example, Microsoft…
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The Power BI image-rendering visualizations, such as Table or Card, expect image links to public servers hosting the images with anonymous permissions. This has obvious shortcomings. Can we load images from a database or Power BI data table? You bet, as Jason Thomas has demonstrated a long time ago. Here are the steps I followed to show the images from the Production.ProductPhoto table in the…
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