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11/7 Webinar: Announcing Microsoft Flow General Availability

A lot of people think the Power BI team is strictly focused on the visualization of data, but actually Power BI sits within a larger organization called Business Application Platform Innovation (BAPI) whose charter is to not just make data actionable through visualization, but also to simplify the automation and acquisition of that data. To that end the team has built Microsoft PowerApps for acquisition and Microsoft Flow for automation. On November 7, 2016, we’ll be hosting a webinar to announce Microsoft Flow General Availability. In this webinar, Group Program Manager Stephen Siciliano will show how Microsoft Flow is an easy-to-use product that helps you set up automated workflows between your favorite apps and services. You can synchronize files, get notifications, collect data, and much more. For preview customers already familiar with Microsoft Flow, Stephen will also cover the changes for release and how you can take advantage of using Microsoft Flow for production applications.

Shape Power BI R visuals, without understanding R

Do you think that Hemingway could have written his famous novels without understanding English? We think he could have, but only with the right tools! For example, with Power BI you can now create R visuals without understanding R! While R visuals add advanced analytics depth and endless flexibility on top of the Power BI visuals, not everyone knows R. Today we’re announcing the R-powered custom visuals that enables you to create R visuals in just a few mouse clicks.

Power BI Desktop October Feature Summary

Today we’re releasing the October Power BI Desktop update, which is filled with several exciting new features! We’ve added several new reporting features, including the much asked for date slicer and snap to grid. We also are releasing several new analytical features including grouping and a top N filter.

Explore your Insightcentr data with Power BI

Insightcentr is a SaaS solution that helps businesses understand workforce productivity by providing time-oriented reporting into web or desktop usage software. It provides analytics as to when, and to what extent, a workforce is using software, helping businesses to optimize software licensing costs and support process re-engineering efforts. Data can be anonymous and aggregated to ensure privacy is maintained. We’ve released a new content pack to make it easy to connect to your Insightcentr data!

Nov 1 Webinar: Big Data with Power BI, HDInsight, and Datameer

Power BI is a fantastic data visualization, transformation, and discovery product, but it’s not designed for “Big Data”-scale datasets. Meanwhile, Azure HDInsight is an impressive cloud-based Hadoop and Spark distribution that works at scale, but it isn’t designed to be friendly for business users the way Power BI is. In this webinar, Andrew Brust will show how you can leverage the scale of HDInsight and the ease-of use of Power BI with Datameer, part of the Azure HDInsight Application Platform. If you’re a Power BI fan, and you want to do Big Data analytics without learning the ins and outs of Hadoop and Spark, then don’t miss this webinar.