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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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Getting started with Power BI GCC

Coming soon: GCC Guide to getting started with Power BI

Community Calls

Paginated Reporting [Guest presenter Tallan]

8 Jan 20218 Jan 2021

With the upcoming release of Premium Per User in GCC (yes it is coming), Paginated Reports will be the focus of the next Power BI Government Community call on Jan…

Community Calls

[Updated] 2021 Changes to the Power BI Govt. Community Call

7 Jan 20218 Jan 2021

Happy New Year everyone, As my counterpart David has moved to a new team, we needed to cancel the bi-weekly event sent out from his email address. I have sent…

Community Calls

Power BI in GCC Year in Review – Community Call

9 Dec 20207 Jan 2021

Tomorrow 12/10 @ 10am PST (Noon CST/1 PM EST) we will present on features released this year in the government community call and what to expect in the upcoming months.…

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Power BI Premium Overview – Community Call

10 Nov 202013 Nov 2020

In the Community Call from November 12th, we reviewed Power BI Enterprise features included with our Premium offering. This discussion will include governance, configuration and performance considerations for our State…

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Azure B2B Explained – Community Call

10 Nov 202010 Nov 2020

In this Community Call we discuss how Azure B2B can be used to share content between users in different tenants and some of the complexities associated to the sovereign government…

Feature Available

Publish to Web [Updates]

A number of enhancements to Publish to Web have been released and now available in our government community cloud. This is a very popular feature for Open Data and government…

Power BI Feature Availability Matrix [Update]

Many customers ask if we have a roadmap of upcoming features in our government community cloud. Recently Microsoft has committed to making public updates with ETAs for many of the…

New York City Hate Crimes and Personnel Demographics Reports

New York City is using Power BI to provide transparency on hate crimes and NYPD personnel. https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/stats/reports-analysis/reports-landing.page I have had many conversations recently around transparency in law enforcement including hate…

Mississippi bridge and pavement conditions reporting

13 Aug 202013 Aug 2020

Another good example of accountability and public reporting is the Mississippi Public Accountability Transportation Hub (PATH) site: https://path.mdot.ms.gov/. They used Power BI Publish to Web to create and share a…

Dataflows in Government Webinar

Our partner PowerPivot Pro will be instructing us on how to leverage Dataflows in Power BI (in case you hadn't heard, Dataflows are now available in GCC!). Dataflows are a…