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Microsoft added muscle to Power BI Report Server (PBRS), its on-premises self-service analytics and enterprise reporting solution, in the latest preview release.
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Microsoft announced the general availability of Power BI Premium at its Microsoft Data Insights Summit, which took place June 12 to 13 in Seattle.
Power BI will now work with nearly all Microsoft applications and is also embeddable with a number of third-party applications.
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Microsoft has made another significant step in pulling SharePoint Online deeper into the wider Office 365 productivity suite.
In a little remarked-upon announcement on the Power BI blog last week, Senior Program Manager Lukasz Pawlowski announced the availability of the Power BI report web part for SharePoint Online.
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Management consultant Peter Drucker once said, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.”
This statement has never been more relevant.
Businesses have access to unprecedented amounts of data, but all that data means nothing unless they can turn it into insights.
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Microsoft has a new solution to help IT administrators assess the use of applications in its productivity suite. It's combining the intelligence of the usage reports in the new Office 365 admin center with the interactive reporting capabilities of Power BI.
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Intranet requirements range greatly from industry to industry, but intranets built on SharePoint all have several core requirements in common.
Identifying these common requirements and exploring what it takes to make them happen will start your SharePoint intranet project off on the right foot.
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Since Power BI’s release in late 2014, Microsoft has been tinkering under the hood to make its entirely cloud-based platform faster, easier to use, more powerful and more accessible through the introduction of increasingly effective dashboards.
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Microsoft released its latest version of its business intelligence software in preview mode in late 2014. It created Power BI as a software as a service (SaaS)-based business intelligence and analytics platform that lets business users directly connect, analyze and gain insight from their business data.
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The hype about big data being the new oil has dropped faster in the past four years than the price of a barrel of crude.
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By Virginia Backaitis, Scott M. Fulton III and Erika Morphy
As a Windows 10 universal app, Power BI is optimized to run on every Windows 10 screen.
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Microsoft put a stake in the ground nearly two years ago when it promised to bring the power of data analytics to a billion users.
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The keyword is “actionable.”
Perhaps the chief complaint businesses have about big data solutions, now that Hadoop is already 12 years old, is that applications are not doing their part to make all that data actionable — it doesn’t give people something to do with it.
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Shortly after Satya Nadella took the helm at Microsoft, he began talking about a “data culture.” Two of his favorite tools —Microsoft Delve and Power BI — are supposed to be key in helping us live and work smarter.
The Microsoft boss has told us this over and over again.
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One billion Excel users may not sleep tonight. It won’t be a problem that keeps them awake, but a new toy. And, get this -- it’s free. Today Microsoft introduces a new Power BI -- a service that helps users bring data in, wring value out and visualize the results.
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