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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

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…

Insights to Outcomes Webinar

BlueGranite (a Microsoft partner) is hosting what appears to be a very interesting webinar tailored for State and Local Government, ""Insights to Outcomes: Uncovering Analytics Opportunities". The webinar will be…

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Deployment Pipelines in Premium government cloud

For folks that have asked for automated development deployment tools in Power BI GCC, today is your day! This week the Deployment Pipelines feature was released in our government community…

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Usage Metrics now available in Power BI Government!

6 Jul 20207 Jul 2020

For the last few years Power BI Government lacked the ability to view report usage, performance and workspace access for non-O365 admin roles. This week the ability to turn on…

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Exporting data in Power BI

I am frequently asked about whether or not Power BI supports exporting of data. The short answer to this question, is "yes, Power BI does support exporting data from visuals."…

Power Automate Custom Power BI API Connector in GCC

15 Jun 202012 Aug 2020

In this article I will overview how to setup a custom connector and create a flow that will export a report and email it as a PDF file. This functionality…

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Power BI Gateway Demystified

12 Jun 202012 Jun 2020

Our bi-weekly discussion around Power BI features in relation to governance and administration. In this weeks discussion we cover our on-premise gateway service. Covering deployment demos, firewall considerations, high availability,…

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Dataflows have arrived in Power BI GCC

Dataflows are now available in Power BI GCC. As I speak with you, dataflows have been the most requested feature. Dataflows are extremely powerful and open a whole new world…