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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”

Community Calls

Power BI External Tools

5 Feb 20219 Jun 2021

In this Community Call we will have guest presenter Alex Powers present on external tools that can be used with Power BI to build data models and manage your development. …

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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

Power BI Premium Per User

20 Jan 20219 Jun 2021

Power BI Premium Per User trials just landed in our government community call, on this call we review how it works and demonstrate a use case that allows for exporting…

Community Calls

Paginated Reporting [Guest presenter Tallan]

8 Jan 20219 Jun 2021

With the upcoming release of Premium Per User in GCC (yes it is coming), Paginated Reports was presented by @Kenneth Philcox, a Lead Consultant at our partner @Tallan https://videopress.com/v/efPQCEZW?preloadContent=metadata The…

Community Calls

Power BI in GCC Year in Review – Community Call

9 Dec 20209 Jun 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.…

Community Calls

Azure B2B Explained – Community Call

10 Nov 20209 Jun 2021

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…

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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…