Integrate Power BI into Your Application: Part 4 – Refresh Data Set

Power BI REST API is not just for embedding content or getting list of dashboards and reports. It also has many functions to work with data sets, gateways, and data sources. As one of the many exciting features of that; you can easily refresh a data set from an application. you can refresh it as Read more about Integrate Power BI into Your Application: Part 4 – Refresh Data Set[…]

Integrate Power BI into Your Application: Part 3 – Embed Content

In the part 1, you learned how to register an application to be able to interact with Power BI service and Azure environment. In the part 2, you learned how the authentication process works and how you can get the access token. In this part, I’m going to explain what is the process of embedding Read more about Integrate Power BI into Your Application: Part 3 – Embed Content[…]

Integrate Power BI into Your Application: Part 2 – Authenticate

In the part 1, you learned how to register an application to be able to interact with Power BI service and Azure environment. In this part, I’m going to explain what is the process involved after that in order to authenticate through your application into Azure Active Directory. This step is important step before doing Read more about Integrate Power BI into Your Application: Part 2 – Authenticate[…]

Integrate Power BI into Your Application: Part 1 – Register your App

Power BI Embedded, which I have written about it previously, brings the power of Power BI into your application. Power BI Embedded Recently had major changes. If you remember from my previous post, there were many limitations in the type of content you can embed into your application and the ways of interacting with it, Read more about Integrate Power BI into Your Application: Part 1 – Register your App[…]

Power BI Premium. Is It For You or Not?

There were many announcements earlier this month about Power BI. One of them which was and still is the breaking news of all is Power BI Premium. Many of you already know that it is a new licensing plan, but how it works? Is this a licensing plan that works for you or not? What Read more about Power BI Premium. Is It For You or Not?[…]

ArcGIS Map in Power BI; Simple, But Insightful

I have written about 4 other types of map visual with Power BI before. In this post I want to explain how ArcGIS visual work as a map visual. There are some specific features in this visual which is simple to use, but will give you a lot of insight. With this type of map Read more about ArcGIS Map in Power BI; Simple, But Insightful[…]

Edition 2 of Free Book: Power BI from Rookie to Rock Star

As promised, here is the second edition (March 2017) of Power BI book; from Rookie to Rock Star as PDF. We are still working on other methods of sharing this book (Kindle, paperback…). In this new version March’s posts are added which are; M or DAX? Content Packs, Shape Map, and IF or Filter in Read more about Edition 2 of Free Book: Power BI from Rookie to Rock Star[…]

IF and Filter are Different! Be Careful (DAX)

DAX has many functions to write conditional expressions. For example you might want to calculate sum of sales amount for all “Red” products. you can achieve it by using SUMX or Calculate, and functions such as IF or Filter to write a conditional expression for product color to be equal to “Red”. At the first Read more about IF and Filter are Different! Be Careful (DAX)[…]

Shape Map Better than the Filled Map

I have previously written some blog posts about Map visuals in Power BI. One of them was specifically about Filled Map, titled as Filled Map; the Good, the Bad, the Ugly! Why? you need to read that post to find the reason. In this post I want to explain the power of Shape Map which Read more about Shape Map Better than the Filled Map[…]