Power BI
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Do you ever ask yourself: How can I display Power BI reports to people outside my organization? The questions is complex, and has multiple different solutions. One is to use Power BI Embedded, which allow you to embed Power BI reports on websites. But… How does a low-coder go about setting up a website for embedding?…
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Introduction The past two weeks, this blog has outlined how: This week, we will look at completing the Application Lifecycle Management of those solutions, by building on top of the GIT Integrated Workspaces with the built-in Deployment Pipelines. The benefits of leveraging Deployment Pipelines are many, including: Setting up TEST, PROD and the Deployment Pipeline…
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Introduction Developing on Microsoft Power BI / Microsoft Fabric is adopting more and more engineering practices. Modern data teams find themselves looking towards solutions for collaborative development, version control and lifecycle management solutions. The GIT integration feature introduced to workspaces in Power BI / Fabric patches up many of the holes, and in combination with…
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Introduction One thing that has always annoyed me about the Power BI service, is the lack of a certain feature. A feature which exists in countless other Microsoft cloud offerings: Built in Version History. However, with Microsoft Fabric came also the GIT integration for workspaces, which allows for connecting a workspace to an Azure DevOps…
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Introduction I have written about accessing Dataverse Data from Microsoft Fabric, outlining how it is possible using: But what if we wanted to go the other way around? What if we wanted to use data stored in OneLake as part of a Power Platform Solution? There are several potential solutions to this, and this article…
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Introduction A Fabric feature which has flown a little under the radar (and which is still in Preview as of May 2024), is the ability to sync data from imported Semantic Models back to OneLake: Learn about Microsoft OneLake Delta table integration in Power BI and Microsoft Fabric – Power BI | Microsoft Learn The…
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Introduction In March, I wrote about How to setup RLS in Microsoft Fabric / Power BI without breaking DirectLake functionality – Downhill Data (downhill-data.com) Back then, RLS was not possible to edit through the Web Authoring experience of Semantic Models in Fabric. Instead, you had to go the roundabout way of using Tabular Edit to…
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Introduction Real Time Analytics in Microsoft Fabric is flying a little under the radar, which is a shame, because the benefits are huge. Especially, if you start putting real time data into the hands of the people who need to react to it. And especially, especially if you do so at the right time. Introducing:…
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Introduction “I want the data in real time” – is a sentence heard once too many by Data Analysts. In reality, real time has many different definitions depending on the stakeholder. To some it means that data is updated once an hour. To some it just means updated data ‘when I get in in the…
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Introduction While Microsoft Fabric promises a collaborative workspace for Data Analysts, Engineers and Scientists alike, the person with the most to gain, and the least to lose, from the data mesh-like architectural patterns in Fabric is the Data Analyst. Do you, as a Data Analyst, recognize any of the following challenges? Then Microsoft Fabric might…