DAX, Power BI, Power BI Desktop, Power Pivot, Power Query, Power View

What is new for BI in Excel 2016

It’s been awhile that we are waiting for a sensible improvements in Microsoft self-service BI. The good news is that finally there will be some cool new features added to the next version of Excel which is Excel 2016. By some, I mean, well, there not a lot new BI features, but, some. Something is better than nothing, not too bad though!

Integrating BI features with Excel:

Power View and Power Map:

As you know, Power Pivot was integrated as a built-it feature to Excel 2013. Now I’m really happy that the same thing happened to Power View and Power Map. So you don’t need to install them separately. You can now turn these features on from:

File–> Options–> Advanced-> (scroll down the page) Data-> Enable Data Analysis Add-ins: Power Pivot, Power View, and Power Map

OR you can still turn them on from “COM Add-ins”:

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Mobile BI, Power BI, Power BI Desktop

Hold Your Dashboards in Your Pocket, Part 2: Use Your Predefined Dashboards on Your Windows Devices

In a previous post, “Hold Your Dashboards in Your Pocket, Part 1: Use Your Predefined Dashboards on Your IOS Devices“, I explained how to use Power BI app on your IOS devices.

In this post I express how to use Power BI app on your Windows devices. It’s relatively easy to install and use the Windows app.

Go to www.powerbi.com and click on the “Download from Windows Store” button

It automatically leads to the app page on your Windows Store
Click Install to install the app

After the app installed successfully open it from start menu

Click Sign In

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Mobile BI, Power BI, Power BI Desktop

Hold Your Dashboards in Your Pocket, Part 1: Use Your Predefined Dashboards on Your IOS Devices

Now it is time to take a step further and learn how to access our dashboards from our IOS or Windows devices. Microsoft designed a very good and handy app for IOS and Windows based tablets. At the moment the Windows app is only available for your laptop or on your Windows based tablet device. First of all you need to download the app on your device.

In this post I explain how to use your IOS devices to browse your dashboards everywhere that you have access to the Internet.

iPhone:

Sign-in into Microsoft Power BI website
From the right menu click on Download then click on “Power BI for IOS”
Click “Download on the App Store”
Select your IOS device and then click on “View in iTunes”

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Power BI, Power BI Desktop, Uncategorized

Build You First Dashboard in Microsoft Power BI Designer, Access Analytics Everywhere

This is the third article from Power BI Designer series. To fully understand this article you need to read my previous posts “Build Your First Report in Microsoft Power BI Designer Part 1, Basics” and “Build Your First Report in Microsoft Power Bi Designer Part 2, Make it More User Friendly” as well. In this article I explain how to publish your predefined reports on www.powerbi.com website which is free. So after publishing the reports, you can create flashy reports very easily. By very easily, I mean it! Creating dashboards is even easier than dragging report objects and dropping them somewhere on the tool! I’ll explain how that is possible. Actually, it is all about the awesomeness of the online BI Designer.

Frist of all, you need to create an account in www.powerbi.com. Unfortunately, you’ll need to have a corporate email address that means you’re NOT allowed to use free email accounts like MSN, Hotmail, Yahoo, and Gmail and so on. But, if you’re a student with a valid university email address or if you’re an employee with a corporate email address, then you’ll be fine.

Let’s start.