How Real-Time BI Requirements are Evolving into the Mainstream

On December 2nd, 2014, I published a blog announcing the preview of the first ever REST APIs for Power BI. These first APIs could only do four things. They could list all the datasets that a user had. They could create a new dataset from a JSON schema. They could add rows to a table … Continue reading How Real-Time BI Requirements are Evolving into the Mainstream

BI Evolution: Incremental Data Refresh

As Power BI grows to become a superset of Analysis Services functionality, a lot of that functionality will evolve as it becomes available. Incremental data refresh is a great example of how Power BI is modernizing/simplifying complex BI implementations. Incremental data refresh is the process of incrementally loading new or changed data to a BI … Continue reading BI Evolution: Incremental Data Refresh