Day: April 16, 2015

Combining Social and Financial Data for Powerful Analytics

This year Convergence was held in Atlanta. While this conference is a huge Dynamics Users conference, they highlight applications that are not necessarily part of the Dynamic stack. One of the most captivating sessions I attended focused on Power BI, Microsoft’s excel based Business Intelligence tool.

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Lovin’ it….. Power BI Designer Preview

Microsoft has a great new offering, Power BI Designer Preview, as part of the Power BI platform.  It is a standalone Windows Desktop application that can be downloaded from the Power BI site.  It is an optional Power BI content authoring option for users that are unable to upgrade to the latest version of Excel.  The application combines Power Query, Power Pivot Data Model and Power View into a seamless experience that will allow users to build their Power BI dashboards and reports. 

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