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What is Power BI – Getting Started with Microsoft Power BI

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Why is Power BI Important? There are a couple of reasons why Power BI is such a powerful BI tool. Power BI is built on the convention of best BI products available in the market. I’m talking about SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) and Microsoft Excel. Apart from the legacy, Power BI is Being built/rebuilt using the latest technologies like HTML 5.0, cloud computing, column store databases & smartphone mobile app Microsoft has opened the custom visuals gallery for open source contributions which adds value to the community The Trend towards self-service business intelligence indicates Microsoft’s leading position in this space Alright, now that you know the importance of Power BI in Analytics field, let’s understand what is Power BI? What is Power BI? Microsoft’s Power BI is a cloud-based, business analytics service for analyzing and visualizing data. Power BI gives you a platform to be productive and creative with the reports and analyti...

Provision a SharePoint library with SPFx extensions

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Overview This Blog will help you on how to create a SharePoint library while provisioning SharePoint Framework extensions. Introduction The SharePoint Framework (SPFx) is a page and web part model that provides full support for client-side SharePoint development, easy integration with SharePoint data, and support for open source tooling. Here is the link to help you familiar with it. Reference Link -- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/spfx/sharepoint-framework-overview Steps to be followed for this process: 1. Create a SharePoint Framework extension. Create a new extension by running the Yeoman SharePoint Generator yo @microsoft/SharePoint Fill the related information for the project Install the related dependencies (npm install) For more details refer the below Microsoft links: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/spfx/set-up-your-development-environment https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/spfx/extensions/get-started/bu...

Power Automate -- Frequently asked questions

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                         Audience and strategy  1. What is Power Automate?  Power Automate is a cloud-based service that makes it practical and simple for line-of-business users to build workflows that automate time-consuming business tasks and processes across applications and services.    2. Who is the intended audience for Power Automate?      Power Automate has two distinct audiences: Line-of-business “Citizen Integrators” in enterprise organizations who partner with IT to move responsibility for business solutions closer to the business itself. IT decision-makers who want to empower line-of-business partners to create their own solutions so IT professionals and integration specialists can focus their expertise on more advanced integration tools, such as Azure Logic Apps. 3. How do power automate and logic apps relate to each other? Pow...