As preparation for my session at Techorama.be about data modeling in self-service BI, I decided to read the book Analyzing Data with Microsoft Power BI and Power Pivot for Excel by Marco Russo and Alberto Ferrari. The title is quite a mouthful but it gets the point across: the book mostly deals with how to correctly build […]
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Excel Rendering In Power BI Report Server: You Are Not Licensed To Use This Feature
I recently migrated an SSRS 2017 instance to a Power BI Report Server environment, as you can read in the blog post Migrate SSRS 2017 to Power BI Report Server. After quite some issues, the PBI RS Portal worked and I could happily browse SSRS and Power BI Desktop reports. The last on the last […]
Migrate SSRS 2017 to Power BI Report Server
UPDATE: The blog post doesn’t make this exactly clear, but fiddling around with the report database to get the upgrade working isn’t supported by Microsoft. However, someone from the SSRS team told me the March 2018 release of Power BI Report Server has fixed some bugs, so you should try to upgrade the normal way. […]
Data Modeling for Self-Service BI @ Techorama 2018
I’m delighted to announce I’ll be giving a session about data modeling in a self-service BI environment at Techorama 2018 (the Internet is divided on the correct spelling: modelling or modeling. Apparently it depends on which side of the pond you’re on). Techorama is one of the biggest Microsoft-oriented tech events in Europe (it takes […]
Where’s the Trend Line in Power BI Desktop?
A quick blog post on finding where the trend line is hiding in Power BI Desktop. Docs will state it is in the analytics pane for certain types of visualization. However, it doesn’t always show up: (I really resisted the urge to post another “Dude, where is my car” image) So why did the trend […]
Power BI Announcements Summary
It was a crazy week for Power BI. There were quite a lot of announcements, so I’ll try to wrap them up in one single blog post and share my thoughts as well. POWER BI DESKTOP Again an amazing release (May 2017). Noticeable features are: Measures on top of live SSAS Tabular connections! I’ve been […]
PASS BA Marathon – Spring Edition Q&A
The PASS BA Marathon Spring Edition was quite a success. A lot of people tuned in (over 400), the webinar went great (lots of great feedback!) and there were a lot of interesting questions. You can find the recording here. Since I didn’t have the time to answer all questions, I’ll tackle them in this […]
Hands-On Data Analysis With Power BI Desktop at PASS BA Marathon
I’m delighted to announce I’ll give a session at the next PASS BA webinar marathon. The topic of this marathon is Data Driven Storytelling and Data Discovery. My session will focus on working with Power BI Desktop: getting data in, cleaning it, creating a model and visualizing the data. It will be mostly demos and just […]
Updates to the Power BI course
Recently I published an open-source course/workshop to learn Power BI Desktop. Fellow MVP Dan English (blog | twitter) gave me the excellent feedback that IMDB actually doesn’t like people scraping their website for data. Furthermore, the OMDB API appears to have fallen almost out of funds and is thus not as reliable as I thought. Refreshing […]
Open Source Power BI Desktop Workshop
I’ve created a free, open-source workshop to teach people the capabilities and features of Power BI Desktop. I was inspired to do this by Brent Ozar, who also created a free open-source course How to Think Like the Engine. If you haven’t checked out that course, make sure you do because it’s great fun and […]