Power BI has direct support for reporting on SharePoint lists and documents whether SharePoint is on-premises or in the cloud. Getting at your data is relatively straightforward if you know the URL, but as I’ve written about before, SharePoint data can be idiosyncratic. Text and number fields work right away, but more complex data types… READ MORE
High Impact Data Visualization with Power View, Power Map, and Power BI helps you take business intelligence delivery to a new level that is interactive, engaging, even fun, all while driving commercial success through sound decision-making. Learn to harness the power of Microsoft’s flagship, self-service business intelligence suite to deliver compelling and interactive insight with remarkable… READ MORE
Microsoft Office 365 is maybe more secure than your own server park – is something that you will hear a lot of times during events from Microsoft evangelists. But organisations and corporate’s that are not into the Microsoft ecosystem wants to see and hear how Office 365 is performing with real time reports and learn about… READ MORE
Integrate Power BI Reports in SharePoint Online We have been waiting for this for soooo long! I’m very happy to announce the availability of the Power BI report web part for SharePoint Online! The new web part Microsoft is releasing today enables SharePoint authors to embed Power BI reports directly in SharePoint Online pages with no… READ MORE
Sometimes you need to adjust SPFx (SharePoint Framework) build pipeline a bit, in order to add your own webpack loaders or modify configuration for some tasks with custom configurations. This can be done in different ways depending on your needs. Let’s try to take a closer look at the options available. Below is a diagram… READ MORE
Monitoring a SharePoint Server park was never a really exciting job for Administrators; expect if you really knew about System Centre Operations Manager – aka SCOM, compared to SharePoint Pages with Azure Insight Apps. You had to install the Management Pack that basically enables administrators to manage Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016. The Management Pack is… READ MORE
In this video you will learn how to:
– Find information about files in SharePoint document libraries
– Analysis and presentation of collected data with Power BI
– Publish analysis results to the audience
Microsoft Project Online, Power BI and Cortana, better together by Tumble Road!
This is part 2 of a series of blog posts describing Power BI – Microsoft’s Self-Service BI in the cloud initiative. In this post we take a deeper look at how to find the data, the very backbone for the reporting and analysis.
What is Power BI?
If I use the strict definition, then Power BI is a self-service intelligence service in the cloud in the form of a specialized site in Office 365. In a broader sense many will also include the Office tools needed to create the reports as part of the definition. Using familiar everyday applications like Excel and Office 365 you can search, discover, model, analyze, visualize and share information and insights based on merged data both from the outside world and from within your own organization.
