For the Microsoft Power BI report designer, importing Microsoft Excel data is a common task. Once in Power BI, you analyze and report on that data. Occasionally, you might need to export a Power ...

Instead of trying to cram those options into Excel, or bolting them onto the side, Microsoft is now supporting a much broader set of analysis tools – from the Power BI service, to its purchase ...

Power BI supports up to 400GB data models (at about 10 to 20 times compression, that’s 4TB to 8TB of data in a single data model). These datasets can be IT-certified, and Microsoft Information ...

With the Report View highlighted, click Get Data and select Excel from the dropdown list of options, as shown in the “Get Data and Report View” screenshot. Next, select and open the “Power BI Sample ...

See the screenshot “Exporting Report to Excel,” below. In Step 3, open the Power BI Desktop, select Get Data from the Ribbon (indicated by the top red arrow in the screenshot “Opening Power BI Desktop ...

Accessing Data Sources: Open Power BI Desktop and select ‘Get Data’ to view the extensive list of available data sources. Choose the appropriate source, such as Excel, SQL Server, or an online ...

For Excel power users, this may come as a bit of a shock, but workbooks destined to be linked to Power BI for its data visualization tools must be restricted to flat data. That means no matrix ...

Both that feature, and one that allows users to analyze data from Power BI in Excel, were previously available for beta testing and are now generally available. The service will also get role ...

Power BI is increasingly bringing the power of data to business users, but you may need more guardrails to get the most value from it. These are the most common things organizations get wrong.