Join us for an incredible in-person event in Orlando, September 20-22, 2022. 

Organizations face new challenges every day. Priorities change, markets shift, opportunities emerge—the pace isn’t slowing down. As your competitors transform their business models and customer expectations evolve, your future depends on how well you can empower your teams to adapt, innovate, and make a positive impact every day. You need to be ready for disruption, to embrace constant change, and, most of all, be fast on your feet.

Join us on April 6 for the Microsoft Business Applications Launch Event. You’ll hear from Charles Lamanna, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Business Applications & Platform, along with senior Microsoft engineers and leaders as they guide you through the latest advancements in Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform and how they’ll help you:

Hello Community Members!  I have loved working on this project with our community success team here at Microsoft.

Dynamics 365 and Power Platform User Groups!

We are super thrilled to announce that Dynamics 365 and Power Platform communities supporting user groups. If you are a leader please check out the links below and request the creation of your group in this new experience. If you are looking to join, give a look to see if your user group has been requested if you are already a member of one. We hope to see many existing user groups being to join this new experience over the next few weeks and into the Summer. 

Dynamics 365 

Power Platform user groups

Power BI user groups

Power Apps user groups

Power Automate user groups

Power Virtual Agents user groups

If you would like more information on the user group program, please read our user group program FAQ before you request the creation of your group. 

For any additional questions, you can always reach out to our user group coordinators at d365ppc@microsoft.com.

We look forward to seeing you on your user group pages.

Join us to Learn, Connect and Grow at #MSIgnite! Explore something new or dive back into your favorite content and conversations. Either way, you can start your journey right now. Register here: https://myignite.microsoft.com/

Join us to thank the Power BI Community for 5 Years of contributions and helping others. Get a sneak peek of the event, and to find out more on our blog.

At the Microsoft Business Applications Summit, our popular Power Hour session features all the wacky, frequently unseemly, and generally funny things members of our product team have created with Power BI. We’re opening a contest and it’s your turn to show us the crazy things you can build with the flexibility of Power BI.

Final reminder: Kudos for the "Ask Arun Anything" event will be frozen on February 21st at 3 PM Pacific Time, so make sure to Kudo the announcement post with more details now!

On November 20th, Amir Netz hosted an Ask Me Anything (AMA) event with the Power BI Community. During this AMA event, he talked about a new level of composite data models and gave some tantalizing details. About 20 minutes in, Katie asked "when will mashups with live connections be available?" And another participant asked, "when will mashups with live connections be available?" Amir answered that this is a top priority and might even be the number one request from enterprise customers. He said that there is a large team working on it with lots of investment over two years.

The next wave of analytics is here and the Power BI team is excited to be an integral partner with the recently launched Azure Synapse Analytics. Enhance your business intelligence (BI) investments with this limitless analytics service with unmatched time to insight. Take the next step towards more powerful analytics and data visualizations using Azure Synapse. Unify data silos, gain advanced security control, and perform cloud-scale analytics—and do it all up to 14 times faster and at a 94 percent lower cost than with other cloud providers. 

We’re excited about the launch of Azure Synapse and its integration with Power BI and want to share the highlights with you. Please join us for the Analytics in Azure virtual event on Tuesday, December 10, 2019 from 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Pacific Time. Sign up for the live stream today for reminders, agenda updates, and instructions to tune in live.

Azure Synapse brings together enterprise data warehousing and big data analytics. It gives you the freedom to query data on your terms, using either serverless on-demand or provisioned resources—at scale. Build end-to-end analytics solutions with a unified experience to ingest, prepare, manage, and serve data for immediate BI and machine learning needs, with blazing speed.

With Azure Synapse, enabling BI and machine learning is a breeze. It’s deeply integrated with Power BI and Azure Machine Learning to greatly expand discovery of insights from all your data and apply machine learning models to all your intelligent apps.

• Link Power BI and Azure Synapse workspaces together providing a single pane of glass to develop and manage your complete analytics infrastructure.
• Create enterprise grade semantic models from the Azure Synapse workspace through integration with Power BI Desktop – which helps define KPIs and business logic, apply role based security, and provides a fast in-memory cache.
• Build Power BI reports directly from within the Azure Synapse workspace and make these reports available to end users.

Come learn more at the Analytics in Azure virtual event to find out how to:

• Query petabyte-scale data on demand from the data lake, or provision elastic compute resources for demanding workloads like data warehousing.

• Build a modern data warehouse enhanced with streaming analytics, machine learning, BI, and AI capabilities.
• Reduce project development time for machine learning, BI, and AI.
• Easily optimize petabyte-scale workloads and automatically prioritize critical jobs.
• Help safeguard data with Azure Active Directory integration, dynamic data masking, column-level and row-level security, and automated threat detection.

You’ll hear directly from Gayle Sheppard, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Azure Data, and John Macintyre, Director of Product for Microsoft Azure Analytics, who will dive deep and demo Azure Synapse. Other Microsoft engineering and analytics experts will join the event with insights and answers to your questions in a live Q&A. Don’t miss your opportunity to ask how Azure Synapse can enable the growth and evolution of your business.  

There’s never been a better time to embrace technologies that allow you to unlock insights from all your data to stay competitive and fuel innovation with purpose. Register today for the Analytics in Azure virtual event on December 10. We hope you can join us!

REGISTER TODAY

WHEN:
November 20, 2019 at  12PM Pacific Time

WHO:
Technical Fellow Amir Netz is going to answer some of your most burning Power BI questions. 

WHAT:
This will be an open discussion and QA session for you to ask Amir anything (AAA). 

I was recently working on some strategic analysis for a meeting. The executive assistant working on the presentation reached out to me because she wanted to ensure that the visuals were well aligned with everything else in the presentation. Instead of going back and forth getting things just right, I showed her how to edit the report in the service and use the formatting pane to adjust font, sizing, etc. We’ve been planning to get together to do the same thing in Power BI Desktop-- so the modern ribbon comes just in time for us. She is an expert in PowerPoint, and this improvement enables her to leverage her existing expertise to format data visualizations. Although I got a sneak peek at the modern ribbon, it will soon be released to everyone in the November update.