All in One: What’s New in Power BI Desktop 2.0 GA

Posted on July 25, 2015July 25, 2015 by Reza Rad

The Breaking news of General Availability of Power BI 2.0 in now everywhere all around the world. In this post I’ll illustrate some great new features of Power BI. if you would like to see a real world example of Power BI you can read FIFA 2014 Worldcup Data Analysis with Power BI, I’ll update that example later on with the new Power BI version. It has been a while that Power BI was on Preview, and with the great effort from Microsoft product team it is now available fully released. As per Microsoft blog post on 21st of July 2015 Microsoft mentioned some great features that will be available in this release, in this post we will go through them one by one. […]

Self Service BI- Power Query-Section 1: Search for Data

Posted on July 2, 2015July 2, 2015 by Leila Etaati

In this Video I tried to gather some information about Dog Breeds from different 3 websites : http://www.mans-best-friend.org.uk/dog-breeds-alphabetical-list.htm http://www.dogbreedslist.info/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dog_breeds I have explained how to get data from these websites even they don’t provide any API.

Introduction to Power BI Designer

Posted on May 15, 2015 by Reza Rad

Power BI Designer is the new Editor for Power BI main components which are: Power Query, Power Pivot, and Power View. Power BI Designer made building Power BI solutions easier with an integrated solution. Power BI Designer’s files can be easily uploaded into Power BI site. In this tutorial video you will learn basics of Power BI Designer, some demos of this product, getting data from FIFA 2014 World Cup website, and creating charts and dashboards. In the demo you will also learn how to deploy the report to Power BI site, and how to view the dashboard and report from Power BI app.

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Walk-through Steps: I’m New to BI, Where to Start? – Part 5: Power BI

Posted on April 29, 2015August 15, 2016 by Reza Rad

Power BI is not a strange word these days, there are many blog posts, videos, news, and speakings about it. Power BI is Microsoft Cloud BI services that released recently. Power BI is not only Cloud BI but also it offers good self-service BI stack as well. Power BI has five main components which are:

Power Query: For data extraction, transformation, and load into model.
Power Pivot: Data Modelling tool.
Power View: Data Visualization tool
Power Map: 3D Geo-spatial data visualization tool.
Power Q&A: Engine for natural language questions and answering

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Walk-through Steps: I’m New to BI, Where to Start? – Part 4: Data Visualization

Posted on April 23, 2015May 3, 2015 by Reza Rad

Data Visualization is the front end of your BI system. It will be seen from the user’s point of view as the whole BI system! The reason for that is users only will see this part of the BI system, they won’t see Data Warehouse, ETL, andData Governance… What they see is only dashboards and charts explaining data values. So it is essential to do the data visualization right and effective. A good data visualization should be able to tell story behind the data. A bad data visualization won’t help users even if you have a good data warehouse or ETL design. So you should spent time to analyze ever dashboard, chart, and table and make that a good story teller to the user.

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FIFA 2014 World Cup Data Analysis with Power BI

Posted on April 16, 2015April 16, 2015 by Reza Rad

Fifa 2014 is not a hot topic these days, but it was the headline news June 2014. With new capabilities in Power BI Designer I tempted to use FIFA 2014 Worldcup data as a demo of it, and play with the tool to see how it works. Fortunately I was able to build some interesting dashboards with it. The demo work was interesting enough to say that I probably would write detailed information about how to build such demo, and would use it in some of my conference speakings.

I’ve used data from official Fifa.com website for most parts of this demo. you can reach FIFA.com official site for 2014 Brazil from here:

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Power BI Now Available Worldwide

Posted on April 7, 2015 by Reza Rad

December last year Power BI with new great features was announced to be only available for United States. Recently Microsoft announced that Power BI is now available worldwide (Preview yet), which is great news. In this post I would like to share some facts about Power BI; Power BI is cloud BI service of Microsoft. Read more about Power BI Now Available Worldwide[…]

Full Day Training Pre-Con: Power BI from Rookie to Rockstar

Posted on March 30, 2015March 31, 2015 by Reza Rad

Full Day Training of Power BI with the title of Power BI from Rookie to Rockstar has been ran in SQL Saturday Vienna.

RADACAD presented one pre-con on Power BI, and couple of sessions; A Journey to Power BI by Leila, and ETL on Cloud? Azure Data Factory by Reza.

Power BI pre-con includes Power Query, Power Pivot, Power View, Power Map, Power Q&A, and the new Power BI Designer.

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SQL Saturday Vienna 2015- A Journey to Power BI

Posted on March 9, 2015May 9, 2015 by Leila Etaati

To download the Session slides click below link : A-Journey To Power BI My session God turn out in SQL Saturday Vienna An Interesting Keynote speech by Mark Souza Have fun the day after SQL Saturday around Vienna with other Speakers I have Talked about Power BI in SQL Saturday Vienna , Special Read more about SQL Saturday Vienna 2015- A Journey to Power BI[…]

Power BI Now Available For Free!

Posted on January 28, 2015 by Reza Rad

It is really good news that Satya Nadella announced Power BI service will be available for free. I believe this is to compete with BI tools in the market and Microsoft seeks for wider range of customers. From my point of view this is a great change, because as a BI Consultant I’ve worked with Read more about Power BI Now Available For Free![…]