Get ready to open your mind to Business intelligence! "Applied Microsoft Business Intelligence" provides best practices on how to leverage Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Office for more opitimised BI.
To successfully Direct Connect to Azure SQL Database from PowerBI.com, you'll need to enable "Access to Azure services" on Azure SQL Database via Azure Portal. Here's a quick how to.
Register now for Actionable Visualization with Power BI Workshop in Huntington Beach on Apr 10, 2015.
Register now for Actionable Visualisation with Power BI Workshop in Brisbane on 27 March 2015
What I love about "Power Query for Power BI and Excel" is that it is full of useful tips and tricks on Power Query and the chapters are written layer upon layer to build you from minimal (or no knowledge) to functional / practical knowledge on Power Query.
Follow up to "I Want It NOW!" Data Visualization With Power View - my 24 Hours of PASS Summit 2014 Preview Session
Reviewing Composition of Data Visualisation is as much important as reviewing Objectives of the Visualisation itself. Practice makes better.
Power BI #InAJiffy - Australians now can sign up trial and purchase Power BI on Office 365
See you virtually at SQL Server User Group Indonesia on 26 June, and/or in person at SQL Bits on 17 - 19 July 2014.
Schedule Data Refresh is a new feature in Power BI to allow users to refresh data sources in Power Pivot at a defined time or on demand.