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Power GI: Empowering government with analytics and insights

Welcome to the Power GI blog! Power GI is not a misspelling, but rather a recognition that insights and analytics in the private sector (i.e. business intelligence or “BI”) are very different in the Public Sector. While much of the content in this site may be applicable to both commercial…Continue reading “Power GI: Empowering government with analytics and insights”

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Which Power BI Features are available in GCC?

In just about every conversation I have, I am asked “what’s the difference in Power BI GCC compared to the…

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New Power BI Feature Availability in GCC

27 Jan 202127 Jan 2021

NEW Licensing Premium Per User – allows for Premium features at the user level. Availability and pricing will be announced at Ignite. Because of this new license, customers can take…

Community Calls

Power BI Security Overview, Basics and Advanced topics

30 Apr 20216 May 2021

Watch the recording of the Community Call on our most requested security related topics. This will include Workspace roles, App deployment, Row Level Security (including Dynamic RLS), Object Level Security…

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Partner Showcase: ESRI ArcGIS and Power BI

18 Apr 202123 Apr 2021

UPDATE: We have a special guest form ESRI who will be presenting on ArcGIS integration with Power BI. See how you can include your ArcGIS layer in a Power BI…

Community Calls

Solving for slow running reports

2 Apr 202114 Apr 2021

We reviewed during our last community meeting how to run metrics to discover the health of our Power BI Premium environment. We exhibited how to get metrics such as; average…

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Deploy Power BI Premium Metrics App for GCC

We recently made some changes to the Premium Capacity App and we have put together a slide deck that walks you through how to deploy this application manually. We still…

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Premium Capacity Metrics App: How to deploy and Use

17 Mar 202129 Apr 2021

How to manually deploy the Premium Capacity App and how to effectively manage your capacity in your organization. UPDATE: Some notes from the field, do NOT try to refresh your…

Community Calls

Best Practices using PowerBI against Large Data Sets

2 Mar 202117 Mar 2021

Our next community call will be presented by Danni Olson who will be taking over the eastern region of the United States. Please view the recording hosted here With the…

Community Calls

Revisited: Publish to Web for Open and Transparent Data

22 Feb 20212 Mar 2021

Over the last year, I've been able to work with many of our State and Local Government customers providing help deploying reports using Power BI Publish to Web. In many…

Community Calls

Power BI External Tools

5 Feb 202111 Feb 2021

In this Community Call we will have guest presenter Alex Powers present on external tools that can be used with Power BI to build data models and manage your development. …

Community Calls

Power BI Premium Per User

20 Jan 202128 Jan 2021

Power BI Premium Per User trials just landed in our government community call, on this call we review how it works and demonstrate a use case that allows for exporting…