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 ...

Microsoft added muscle to Power BI Report Server (PBRS), its on-premises self-service analytics and enterprise reporting solution, in the latest preview release. The report server is already a ...

Saudi Airlines describes making difficult business decisions as driving a curvy road at night with no headlights. Luckily, Microsoft has lots of technology to bring clarity to these decisions and ...

Here’s a real-world story: Data collection and analysis is, ironically, for a data management profession, one of the toughest parts of my job. I regularly pull data from our various databases and ...

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Microsoft has been pouring R&D resourcesinto building out its business intelligence (BI) feature set and the upcoming SQL Server 2014 (SQL2014) release will continue that trend. The new release ...

Accelerator for Business Intelligence (Accelerator for BI). The Accelerator for BI is a rapid application development tool to automate the process of building the infrastructure of an analytical ...

In the past few weeks, Microsoft has pushed out September updates to various components of Power BI. The desktop variant of the service was the first to be updated this month, followed by improvements ...