As I described here, Power BI can send SQL queries in parallel in DirectQuery mode and you can see from the Timeline column there is some parallelism happening here – the last two SQL queries ...

In July, Microsoft announced plans for a public preview of a new suite of business intelligence tools, known as Power BI for Office 365. On September 25, Microsoft added a few new capabilities to that ...

Microsoft’s been in the Business Intelligence (BI) game since the late 1990s, and its products in that space have been genuinely innovative. But Microsoft has added value to its BI stack only in fits ...

Microsoft released Power BI for Office 365 today, indicating it's ready for production environments. The product has hit its "general availability" milestone, meaning that organizations can purchase ...

Microsoft's business intelligence (BI) strategy for years has been all over the place. No one can argue the sheer number of BI tools Microsoft offers -- from SQL Server and SharePoint on the back-end, ...

What if I told you that the tools you’ve relied on for years, VLOOKUP and XLOOKUP, might actually be holding you back? Sure, they’ve been the go-to formulas for countless Excel users, but as datasets ...

Power Query in Excel is a powerful tool designed to streamline the process of importing, cleaning, and transforming external data. It enables you to prepare datasets for analysis efficiently, saving ...

Microsoft Power BI is a powerful Business Intelligence (BI) tool that lets people with a limited technical background perform complex analysis in just a few clicks. Big data is how you can empower ...

Microsoft formerly offered a rather confusing array of centralized business intelligence, reporting, and analytics products aimed primarily at IT developers, with users often assumed to be working ...