Power BI News Roundup

This is just a quick post to summarise the Power BI-related information that has come to light over the last few weeks; this is all stuff that has been tweeted extensively (follow me!), but I know not everyone spends their life on Twitter so here you go:

• The Power BI mobile app has appeared in the Windows 8 app store. Check out these posts from Jen Underwood, A.J. Mee and Parikshit Savjani for more details:
  http://www.jenunderwood.com/blog.htm#PowerBIMobileAppStore
  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ajmee/archive/2013/08/13/clearing-up-some-confusion-around-the-power-bi-quot-release-quot.aspx
  http://www.sqlserverfaq.net/2013/08/20/how-to-provision-power-bi-app-to-your-office-365-enterprise-portal/
  There’s also a detailed video on YouTube showing a demo of it:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1qD5h7iUc4
• The maximum size of a workbook you can upload to Power BI will be 250MB, as stated here:
  http://redmondmag.com/Articles/2013/08/08/Power-BI-for-Office-365.aspx?m=1&Page=3
• There’s a new option to use the HTML 5 viewer for Power View reports in the browser:
  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/solutions/archive/2013/08/16/try-the-preview-version-of-power-view-in-html5-in-office-365-sites.aspx
• The full Power BI online help has been published. Links to all the help docs and more can be found on this wiki page here:
  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/18462.power-bi-learning-resources.aspx
  There’s a lot of interesting stuff in there. For example, here are the details on how you can publish an OData feed from SSIS and therefore expose on-prem data sources to Power BI in the cloud:
  http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/publish-ssis-packages-as-odata-feed-sources-HA104079177.aspx
  And here’s a discussion of the role of the data steward in self-service BI scenarios, something Jamie Thomson also blogged about recently:
  http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/office365-sharepoint-online-enterprise-help/understanding-the-role-of-data-stewards-in-data-management-HA104079191.aspx
  And here’s how to share Power Query queries with other people:
  http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/office365-sharepoint-online-enterprise-help/share-queries-HA104079182.aspx?CTT=5&origin=HA104079191
  http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/office365-sharepoint-online-enterprise-help/find-and-use-shared-queries-HA104099556.aspx?CTT=5&origin=HA104079182

Now, all we need is for the full preview to be released…