It’s Monday again and it’s time for #WolfisDataNews again!
Power BI
- Gartner MQ for Analytics and BI Platforms 2021: The new Gartner Magic Quadrant was released in the past week. And Microsoft (with the Power BI platform), well, stayed in the leader quadrant and increased the distance to other vendors in the leader quadrant. Read the reaction from the Power BI team at the Power BI blog: Microsoft named a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and BI Platforms | Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power
- Security is key – The Power BI released a new Power BI security whitepaper and many more security enhancements – Data insights without limit, security without compromise
- .NET Core support for Analysis Services client libraries is GA – If you want to include Analysis Services client libraries in your own applications – the .NET Core support is not GA! .NET Core support for Analysis Services client libraries is GA
Analytics
- One of my highlight features in Azure Synapse Analytics are Shared metadata tables. Charl Roux published an article about Spark Table to Serverless Pool Metadata Sync
- Did you know that there is a limit in Synapse workspaces? Workspace Quota Limit -Unable to create Synapse Workspace due to subscription limit
(Virtual) Events in the next weeks
Reading is fun, but (virtual) conferences too…
- Microsoft Ignite – March 2-4 2021 – https://myignite.microsoft.com/home
- On-Demand sessions are available: Around the Clock – Azure SQL and Azure Data Factory – https://github.com/microsoft/aroundtheclock
- 18. March 2021 – Join us for the Azure Synapse Launch event – Microsoft Austria and cubido provide you with a webinar full of Synapse and the future of Analytics. Save the date – The registration page will open soon.
Have a good start into the week!
Wolfgang
