Posted by
Andy Brown
on 05 September 2024
If you're a qualified pilot (but also a bit of a data nerd) how do you keep track of your flights? With a Power BI report, of course!
Posted by
Rick Gould
on 01 December 2023
Microsoft have introduced a new button slicer visual in the November 2023 Power BI Desktop update, which adds additional functionality and formatting features to the old tile slicer.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 25 October 2023
The way in which you interact with Power BI when creating and opening reports is about to change, as this blog explains.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 20 June 2022
Following last month's high-level comparison between Power BI and Tableau, what aspect of these two popular BI software tools would you like us to focus on next?
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 07 June 2022
Power BI and Tableau are the two leading BI tools, but how do they compare? We've teamed up with Steve Adams of Viz DJ to find out!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 28 January 2022
Can you play Wordle in Power BI? Of course you can! This blog explains how you can get Power BI to do something which it is eminently unsuited to do!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 20 January 2022
We have launched two new courses: a two-day Advanced Power BI (Reports) course for report authors, and a two-day advanced Power BI (Data) course for data modellers.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 28 October 2021
You can add a tab for a Power BI report within a Teams channel, and also share a report from Power BI Service within Teams - this blog shows you how to do both these things!
Posted by
Sam Lowrie
on 19 July 2021
Sometimes our Owls come across little titbits that aren't big enough to count as a full meal. Instead we bide our time and create a smorgasbord of little bites for you to feast on. With that in mind, here are 5 Power BI tips that you might not know.
Posted by
Andrew Gould
on 19 July 2021
Confused about the difference between Power BI Reports and Power BI Paginated Reports? Allow this blog to clear up the confusion!
Posted by
Sam Lowrie
on 01 July 2021
There are many great resources for learning Power BI, and so many of them are completely free! Level up your BI skills with some of the best.
Here Sam covers some of his favourite BI channels. You even get a glimpse behind the curtain to see other channels he watches!
Posted by
Sam Lowrie
on 20 April 2021
Following the April 2021 update to Power BI (perhaps coincidentally) we started getting this message appearing on our computers, blocking us from running Power BI. Here is how to solve this!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 23 December 2020
Puzzled as to why there are two near-identical versions of Power BI Desktop? Wondering if web portal is anything like Power BI report server? Confused as to what a paginated report is? This blog answers all these questions, and more!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 27 November 2020
This awesome game shows what's possible using bookmarks in Power BI (think of it as the sequel to Sam's 2019 Pin the Tail on Rudolf game).
Posted by
Sam Lowrie
on 30 October 2020
This blog show two ways in which you can create custom themes in Power BI without needing to learn how to write JSON: either use the built-in theme editor in Power BI, or use the theme generator from Power BI Tiips.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 24 October 2020
What do you get when you combine the futuristic 3-dimensional mixed-reality environment created by the HoloLens 2 headset with Power BI reports? Read this blog to find out!
Posted by
Sam Lowrie
on 26 June 2020
Sam was tired of getting told off for crinkled or missing expense receipts. So he had a look at Power Apps and this is what he found…
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 10 January 2020
When we find new features which we didn't know about, we try to share them! Did you know that you can turn preview off when getting data? Or that you could left-click to drill-through? We didn't!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 18 October 2019
Power BI improves with each monthly update. Will it reach a point where SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services) becomes redundant? This detailed blog compares the two products, and considers the future of SSRS.
Posted by
Andrew Gould
on 07 July 2023
Power BI encourages you to publish reports to an online service so that you can share your beautiful reports with the world. If you'd rather keep them a secret you can use Power BI Report Server to deploy your reports to an on-premises server, as this blog series shows you.