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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”

Announcements…

FABRIC IN GCC – WHAT TO EXPECT AND HOW TO SKILL UP

2 Jun 20235 Jun 2023

For those who have seen the most recent announcements regarding our new platform Fabric, we wanted to clear up things and set expectations.. As most people already know, preview features…

Power Bi Premium Gen 2 Metrics App for GCC/GCCH/DoD

20 Oct 202131 Mar 2023

Be aware updated to the Template App have been made so customers should update the app using the links below for the latest version. 3/23/2023 We have made available the…

Feature Available…

New Power BI Feature Availability in GCC

27 Jan 202110 Jun 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…

Announcements…

Dataverse and Power BI: How Governments Unlock Their Data

5 Jun 20235 Jun 2023

Session overview Please join your State and Local Government colleagues and Microsoft for a digital event on Thu, June 8th, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT–Dataverse and PowerBI: How Governments Unlock Data …

Community Calls

Community Call Hiatus

Greeting State and Local Community Call followers! It is officially Spring and with the changes in weather, your dedicated Power BI Specialists (Cyrus and Danni) need a break for some…

Community Calls

March 23rd – Demystify and Explain Power BI Gateways

21 Mar 202330 Mar 2023

During this GCC Community Call we reviewed using Power BI Gateways to keep your data up-to-date with scheduled refreshes and/or DirectQuery/Live Connection. We demonstrated how to install and set-up a…

Community Calls…

Power BI – All things Embedded

27 Feb 202320 Mar 2023

Looking to know all the options for embedding content? Knowing the differences between embedding Power BI content can be somewhat complex and nuanced. In this session we reviewed the following…

Community Calls

Live Power BI Examples – Feb 23rd Government Community Call

10 Feb 202323 Feb 2023

Session - “Think Bold with Business Intelligence” with dannio@microsoft.comThis 30 min presentation is for business/agency resources to get an overview of how other government agencies within the USA are using…

Community Calls…

Preview Feature Power BI Dataset Scale Out

1 Feb 20239 Feb 2023

Power BI Dataset Scale-Out, a dataset feature enabling enterprise customers to support large-scale Power BI solutions without any additional administrative overhead or infrastructure complexity. The idea is to let Power…

Community Calls

Power BI in Teams

9 Jan 202325 Jan 2023

In this community call led by Rachel Rood, she demonstrates how to make better data-driven decisions by bringing your data into the flow of your Team's collaboration. You will be…

Community Calls

Power BI in GCC Year in Review 2022

30 Nov 202215 Dec 2022

As this year comes to an end, we reviewed new features of Power BI released throughout 2022 in this community call. Some highlights for Power BI Desktop include conditional formatting…

Community Calls

Power BI Premium Capacity deployment, configuration and monitoring in GCC

18 May 202227 May 2022

For our final Community call of the fiscal year 2022, we will be presenting on how Power BI Premium is deployed in our government cloud along with special considerations for…