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Jul 23, 2020
2 min

Send emails from Power BI – ask for updates on specific business metrics

If you use Power BI for data driven decision making you probably had the need to ask a client/supplier/user for updates on specific key metrics from your report. You might be thinking now “Oh, but you can add comments in reports and dashboards…”, but what if the person you want to contact doesn’t have access to this specific report? What if you want to send an email asking for updates? That’s where DAX hyperlinks come into play! We will go through how you can easily add a hyp

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Power BI Streaming Datasets and Forms: keep your audience engaged with real time data

Mara Pereira

Jul 10, 2020
3 min

Power BI Streaming Datasets and Forms: keep your audience engaged with real time data

I rarely use Power BI Streaming Datasets, but when I do........ I have to say, they are awesome for meetings, workshops and trainings! In this post I’m going to talk about feeding your Power BI Dashboard with live data from Microsoft Forms (with a little help from Power Automate). When you have your final solution in place, you will be able to see your Power BI Dashboard refresh automatically every time you submit a Form, real time data streaming folks, exciting! Key words: P

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Automate your business processes – Send reminders on Teams and by email with Power Automate

Mara Pereira

Jul 2, 2020
2 min

Automate your business processes – Send reminders on Teams and by email with Power Automate

This post will be a very simple one, but that can help you get rid of some of those tedious tasks that we all at some point had to do: send reminder emails to users about a specific task, project, business process, etc… This is all about automating your work as much as possible. You should always think: if I’m doing the same thing periodically, there is a way to automate it! And that’s where Power Automate comes into action! I will show you different ways to send reminders to

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