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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 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…

Community Calls

Revisited: Azure B2B External Guest for Power BI

21 Jul 202121 Jul 2021

As the kickoff subject for our State and Local Community Call we will once again explore the topic of Azure B2B and how it works specifically in our sovereign government…

UPDATE: SLG Power BI Community Call Outlook Invite

10 Jun 202110 Jun 2021

Some of you have asked if we could forward the invite for the next Community Call but unfortunately due to privacy concerns, we can no longer do this. However, starting…

Updates to Power GI Blog

We have upgraded our blog site so that content can be hosted directly in this WordPress site so no longer will you be required to open content using Teams or…

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Webinar Understanding Power BI Premium Gen 2

With the newly available Preview of Power BI Premium Gen 2 in our Government Community Cloud, we would like to invite customers to attend this webinar hosted by our product…

Community Calls

Community Calls on Hiatus until August 2021

21 May 20211 Jul 2021

We are coming to the end of our fiscal year here at Microsoft and we are taking a break after a very successful year providing lots of content for our…

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Premium Capacity Metrics App for Gen2

17 May 202117 May 2021

As our government cloud does not yet have third party Template Apps, I have received the PBIX file form the product team to share with our government customers. NOTE: Currently…

Community Calls

Deployment Pipelines in GCC

17 May 20219 Jun 2021

Based on feedback from this group our presentation on May 20th will focus on Deployment Pipelines. The deployment pipeline tool enables BI creators to manage the lifecycle of BI Projects.…

Community Calls

Power BI Security Overview, Basics and Advanced topics

30 Apr 20219 Jun 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…

Community Calls

Partner Showcase: ESRI ArcGIS and Power BI

18 Apr 20219 Jun 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 20219 Jun 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…