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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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Power BI Public Facing Government Reporting Showcase

18 Jan 202220 Jan 2022

Having previously worked for my local county government, we know the importance of transparency and open data. Power BI offers a unique platform to allow our government customers publish existing…

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Power BI in GCC Year in Review – Community Call

28 Dec 202110 Jan 2022

As another year comes to an end, we reviewed the new features of Power BI released during 2021. This presentation has links to all features as we highlighted/demoed our favorites.…

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Happy Holidays from Cyrus and Danni

Just a reminder we will NOT be having a Community Call this week as the holidays are upon us. We will resume our State and Local Government Power BI Community…

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Guest Presenter : Kiefer Consulting Part 2 – Deployment Pipelines and DevOps in GCC

6 Dec 202113 Dec 2021

Power BI deployment pipelines enables BI teams to build an efficient and reusable release process for their Power BI content. To achieve continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) of content,…

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Export to Excel Improvements now in GCC

Exporting from Tables and Matrix visual now have a new experience that will include formatting with current layout. This is now active in our Power BI GCC cloud. https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/export-to-excel-improvements-for-table-and-matrix-visuals-preview/

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Dataset Settings for Gen 2 Premium now in GCC

The announced Power BI Premium Dataset settings have been deployed to our government community cloud. Posting this for general awareness. https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/capacity-settings-for-datasets-are-now-in-power-bi-premium-gen2/ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-admin-premium-workloads#datasets

Happy Thanksgiving from your Power BI State and Local Team!

Wising our community the best during the holiday season. A recorded video on Power BI Monitoring should be posted soon and look forward to a partner presentation on Power BI…

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Hiatus In Honor of our Veterans

There will not be a State and Local Government Community Call this week in honor of Veteran's Day. Thank you for your service.

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Guest Presenter : Kiefer – Project tracking with SharePoint, Teams and Power BI

20 Oct 202129 Oct 2021

Kiefer Consulting has worked with state and local government to develop and deploy customized project management reporting solutions. These solutions help departments in several key areas: TransparencyImproved and standardized project-level…

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

20 Oct 20215 Oct 2022

Be aware updated to the Template App have been made so customers should update the app using the links below for the latest version. 10/5/2022 We have made available the…