business intelligence

Filter a Power BI tile on your web page

30 Jan 2016 By dmoraschi

    EDIT 2016-07-12: Microsoft has changed their API and policies and functionality, so this artcile is obsolete now. I will shut down the sample site. For details, please see: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/what-s-new-and-what-s-next-for-power-bi-embedded-july-2016/ ====================================================================================================================== I received a lot of feedback regarding my two recent posts: https://moraschi.com/2015/12/08/embed-multiple-power-bi-tiles-into-your-web/, and https://moraschi.com/2015/11/30/use-a-power-bi-tile-in-your-web-page/ So I decided to continue in my exploration of the Power BIRead More

A map, a map! My kingdom for a Choropleth map! (Power BI)

11 Dec 2015 By dmoraschi

One of the most fascinating aspect of Business Intelligence is the power to picture data in an easy to understand way. I personally like maps a lot, not the google or bing type with lots of circular points which give very low added value to the information, but the Choropleth maps. Those shaped areas withRead More

Embed multiple Power BI tiles into your Web

08 Dec 2015 By dmoraschi

EDIT 2016-07-12: Microsoft has changed their API and policies and functionality, so this article is obsolete now. I will shut down the sample site. For details, please see: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/what-s-new-and-what-s-next-for-power-bi-embedded-july-2016/ Code re-usability is at the core of programming best practices and Business Intelligence is no exception. None wants to code multiple times just to refactor thousands of linesRead More

There OAuth to be a better way (Power BI)

16 Jul 2015 By dmoraschi

Edit: The base URL has changed from https://api.powerbi.com/beta/myorg to https://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg.  OAuth is clearly becoming the de-facto standard for authenticating API calls around the web. In the business intelligence arena, while we can discuss its pros and cons, we undoubtedly must get acquainted with it because sooner or later we’ll be tasked with importing data fromRead More