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We're over here celebrating those who make a positive impact in our community, come join us!

By Kassandra Fredrickson posted 2 days ago
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Welcome! We knew you would be up for joining in on celebrating your peers who are making a positive impact in the PowerBIUG Community!  Farhan Ahmed is our most Engaged Member of the Week and a great example of a community member who is stepping up to keep our community thriving.  If you’re ready to be inspired by one of your fellow community members, take a look at what your guy, Farhan, had to say!   Q: If I am new to this community, what can I not miss?       Farhan: Upcoming Webinars & Previous Webinar recordings I must say, you will benefit by the variety of topics and highly skilled speaker's experiences.   ...
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Orlando 2019 Power Platform Summit Right Around the Corner!

By Justin Rister posted 5 days ago
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Just 4 weeks away!! I'm excited to say I'm attending the upcoming Power Platform Summit in Orlando this coming October. As a continuous improvement professional in the aerospace manufacturing industry, my day to day focus is on process improvements, employee engagement, and of course leveraging technology to collect and analyze data efficiently and effectively. I work in an environment where data is priceless. This is where the Power Platform products come in. I leverage tools like Power BI, Flow and PowerApps to digitize the Lean methodology. I'm really looking forward to attending the summit to meet like-minded professionals. I strongly believe that learning ...
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Hear what our Most Engaged Members of the week are saying!

By Kassandra Fredrickson posted 21 days ago
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Are you ready to meet some of the individuals that make up our community? Over the next few weeks, we have something exciting planned - we are going to highlight the Most Engaged PowerBIUG Member of the Week. We want to take some time to recognize a handful of members who are really engaging in our community, we want to hear about their journey and to learn from them! We are thrilled we had the opportunity to ask our Most Engaged Power BI Member of the week, @Vishesh Jain , a couple of questions about his Power BI journey. We enjoyed hearing what he had to say and are excited to share it with all of our PowerBIUG Community!  Enjoy!   If I am ...
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12 Data BI Job Roles

By Jena Coffie posted 23 days ago
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Are you aware of all the Data BI job roles in the market today? The career landscape of data & business intelligence is expanding daily; are you and your company keeping up?  Learn how to stand out from the crowd, find the right role, and prepare for interviews and salary negotiations. Get these tips and more from the Power Platform User Group Career Center:  https://jobs.powerplatformug.com/
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July PUG of the Month Winner - São Paulo!

By Jena Coffie posted 26 days ago
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Congratulations to Power BI User Group Leaders @Bartira Lira , @Lucas Augusto Milanes , @Fernando Garcia , @Igor George Abdo , and @Eduardo Amaral  and the  Sao Paulo PUG for winning the July Leader Challenge.  This group is just getting started and we were excited to talked with the new Leadership Team to learn more about the local Power BI User Group and plans for 2019.  ​ What has been the most exciting thing for your PUG so far? For now what has been most exciting is the interaction with other User Group Leaders and the possibilities of making knowledge exchange at events and meetings. What makes your group successful? I ...
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The 2019 Power BI User Group Global Hackathon Champions!

By Jena Coffie posted 26 days ago
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It is with great pleasure that the Power BI User Group announced the 2019 Power BI User Group Global Hackathon winning team as… Team Hydro-Québec of the  Montreal Power BI User Group ! Congratulations to our Power BI User Group World Champs! Members of Team Hydro-Québec: @william martin   (Team Captain) @Maxime Tremblay @Francis Quenneville @France Cano The Global Hackathon Judging Committee - consisting of Microsoft Product Team members  @Amanda Cofsky ,  @Tessa Hurr ,   @Kelly Kaye   and   @Will Thompson   and 2018 Global Hackathon Winning Denmark Power BI User Group Leaders   @Erik Svensen  and   @Just Thorning Blindbæk  - remarked ...
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Get in the Know! Inside Look into Summit North America with MSDW

By Delaney Freer posted 29 days ago
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MSDynamicsWorld.com is collaborating with Dynamic Communities to explore the upcoming Power Platform Summit North America conference, October 15-18 in Orlando, FL, in a series of preview articles. We’ve compiled all the expert interviews that cover the Microsoft Power Platform (Power BI, PowerApps, Flow) into one place. Happy reading! Automate it all with Microsoft Flow Microsoft MVP Luc Labelle, Kabesa Founder Luc Labelle has worked with Power BI since it was first introduced and has since begun working with Microsoft Flow and PowerApps. Read about his session at Summit all about using Flow to automate boring, repetitive ...
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Actualización de Power BI de Agosto. Post en español

By Francisco Mullor Cabrera posted Aug 15, 2019
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Este post está extraido de mi propio blog: Power BI University. Actualizacion Agosto Por lo general las actualizaciones de este mes suelen ser bastante lights, pero Agosto viene con una novedad super interesante, la posibilidad de agrupar varias visuales de manera que se comportan como una sola en algunos aspectos Por otro lado, se han mejorado los iconos del formato condicional, como prometieron el último mes, con la inclusión de estilos predefinidos, de manera que eligiendo un estilo ya se crean las reglas por defecto para todo el estilo, muy parecido a como se gestionan en Excel. Por último, destacar la inclusión de medidas en la visualización key ...
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Global Hackathon Finalists Compete for Top Honors!

By Jena Coffie posted Jul 31, 2019
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The 2019 Power BI User Group Global Hackathon is nearing the final rounds as global voting of finalists commences! Five teams from Power BI User Groups across five countries are competing for the global championship.   Learn more about each team’s submission and vote today! Voting ends August 7: http://ow.ly/XzHl50v97wR   The 2019 Power BI User Group Global Hackathon provided our worldwide Power BI User Group community with a fun and competitive opportunity to use Power BI data visualization stories to entertain, educate, and inspire people and facilitate positive change. Starting with local competitions, these teams were selected as the top ...
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Mapa Regiones de colombia

By Elver Coy posted Jul 31, 2019
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Hola Todos necesito ayuda o si es posible plantilla de departamentos de Colombia, También como crear  Regiones personalizadas para mostrar información relevante a esa región Gracias a todos mi correo elvercoy@gmail.com
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What happens to our customers when they understand the magic of Power BI Embedded

By Torsten Wanka posted Jul 27, 2019
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Power BI is a big success story in the world of self-service BI. Microsoft has built a great toolset for easy visualization and storytelling of business data, especially for non-technical persons. The great work is also reflected in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant where Microsoft is a leader for Analytics and BI Platforms for 12 consecutive years. Link:  https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-a-leader-in-gartners-magic-quadrant-for-analytics-and-bi-platforms-for-12-consecutive-years/ In a nutshell Power BI is a set of tools and services which are used for creating appealing and interactive reports and dashboards which can be shared with colleagues, ...
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Power Platform Summit is coming to Melbourne, Australia!

By Bridget Courneya posted Jul 26, 2019
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Power Platform Summit is fast approaching – and if 200+ educational sessions weren’t enough reason to join us, Summit features plenty more to make it the year’s “must-attend” event. See what’s in store to help you get the most from your Power BI, PowerApps and Flow technologies – then register today for this one-of-a-kind gathering! Microsoft Power Series . Don’t miss 6 courses and 13+ hours of deep-dive, hands-on learning led by Microsoft experts who know Power BI, PowerApps and Flow inside and out. User Group Medics. Bring your toughest questions or thorniest system issues and get expert advice and guidance. Pre-Conference ...
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A Few User Group Site Updates

By Michelle Lowry posted Jul 10, 2019
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Hey, all! Your user group website has some new and changed features, and I’ve highlighted some of them below. View your Followed Content For some time now, you’ve been able to follow discussion posts, blog articles, and library entries by navigating to them and clicking the  Follow (star)  icon.  Following a content item triggers real-time email notifications to you whenever someone else in the community interacts with that item.  It’s a great way to keep up on a conversation or file that interests you.    Now, to make it as easy as possible to track  all  the content you're following, you can view it from your profile; just navigate to  My ...
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How to Retrieve Logged in USERNAME in POWER BI Reports. A Perfect Alternate Way for Direct Queries

By Srinivasa Mani Prabhakar P posted Jul 04, 2019
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So many times, I have asked Mr. Google to give me a solution to pass user name as a parameter to POWERBI report for various development purposes. Google gives a lot of details but unfortunately, they do not suit my requirements. However, I would like to thank all people who contribute their ideas and implementations on all the forums in Google. I hope my way is the perfect alternative way to pass username as a parameter and we can even get it as a dataset. To implement this method, we require Analysis services to run in TABULAR Mode because POWERBI supports Tabular model. First, create a stored procedure of your logic where you want to pass the user name ...
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Have you had the Summit experience - Power Platform Summit?

By Jena Coffie posted Jun 25, 2019
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Did you know the Power Platform Summit experience is happening in three locations around the world? Have you experienced it? Summit is everyone. Summit is a huge expo hall with hundreds of knowledgeable solution providers. Summit is hands on and new learning formats. Summit is networking on another level, locally and globally. Summit is for the community by the community. Simply put, Summit is not to be missed:  www.powerplatformsummit.com Power Platform Summit Australia - Melbourne | 21-23 August 2019 https://www.australiasummit.com/explore/power Power Platform Summit North America - Orlando | October 15-18, 2019 https://na.powerplatformsummit.com ...
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Using Power Platform Adoption Framework to help large organizations adopt, manage, and govern Power BI (and more) at scale

By Andrew Welch posted Jun 25, 2019
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We get the most value from Power Platform when we truly embrace it as a platform . In other words, while the component parts — Power BI, PowerApps, Flow, Common Data Service, and even Dynamics — are incredible tools in their own right, the more we knit them together, the more valuable they become. But how do larger organizations truly adopt that platform at scale? How do we maturely infuse enterprise management, governance, and best practices into our adoption such that we empower our business users to build beautiful and useful things whilst also helping our friends in IT rest easy that the platform is stable and secure? I’ve been incredibly excited this ...
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Microsoft Business Applications Summit Recap from Dynamic Communities

By Bridget Courneya posted Jun 24, 2019
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Microsoft Business Applications Summit Recap from Dynamic Communities Dynamic Communities and the Power Platform User Group Team had a wonderful and busy time at the Microsoft Business Applications Summit (MBAS) in Atlanta just over a week ago. It was so great to see and connect with so many faces from the Power Platform user group community. On top of the networking among current leaders and community members, hundreds of attendees stopped by to the booth looking to connect with their local user groups. Many interested in starting up a group near them if one did not exist. Because of this, there will be many new user groups created in the coming months ...
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May PUG of the Month Winner - West Midlands!

By Jena Coffie posted Jun 24, 2019
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Congratulations to Power BI User Group Leader @Tom Gough and the West Midland PUG   for winning the May Leader Challenge.  We talked with the group’s leadership to learn more about the local Power BI User Group and plans for 2019.  ​ What has been the most exciting thing for your PUG so far? I think the most exciting thing so far was getting the first meeting up and running.  We had about 15 attendees which, while not huge, felt like a massive group when we were just starting out, and getting the support of the Wesleyan to host the event for us was amazing (the Wesleyan are a very well known company here in Birmingham with a history going back ...
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Is an online Power BI Special Interest Group for you?

By Mico Yuk posted Apr 28, 2019
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Have you heard of a Power BI SIG.. as in a special interest group? If your answer is No, that's OK. You're not alone. Power BI SIGs or Special Interest User Groups , are the hidden gems of the PUG community. Why? Because all you have to do is have an internet connection and a laptop, and you can have the full benefits of a community online, with 100's of others with similar interest across the world. Unlike the popular Power BI user groups, SIGs are very focused on a specific type of user, line of business or skillset. As one of the leaders for Power BI for Business User SIG, our focus is to help business users focus on how to really ask ...
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The Power BI cheat sheet, crammed with tips, tricks and best-practices!

By Marc Lelijveld posted Apr 23, 2019
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Two years ago my colleague Dave Ruijter ( t | in ) started the Power BI Cheat Sheet. First, it was a giveaway for participants of our classroom Power BI training with a summary of the tips and tricks we shared during the training. Not long after that, Dave decided to make it publicly available! Besides our tips and tricks, it also became community driven which results in a lot of input from the community via social media nowadays. Over a year ago, I ( t | in ) joined Macaw and started to help Dave with keeping the Cheat Sheet up-to-date, which is actually kind of a hard job with the fast release cycle of Power BI. The Power BI Cheat Sheet is a one-page ...
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