Microsoft’s updates continue unabated with another splurge of reporting, analytical, visualisation and connectivity tools.

January’s update adds support for generating 'Conditional Columns' transformations as a part of one of our favourite tools, the ‘Add Column From Examples’ feature.

We’ve made a New Year’s Resolution for 2018 we are hoping we can stick with… Our Blog page is going to have a new blog each day Monday to Friday starting from this week!

The Microsoft Data Journalism Program and Power BI teams have just announced that they are accepting submissions for the Power BI “2017 Year in Review” Data Story Contest.

Microsoft has added two Excel tutorials to Excel 2016 for those new to Excel.

Now here is some truly exciting news for day-to-day Excel users: Insights is a new service (in Preview) coming soon to automatically highlights patterns detected in your data.

It will be a happy new year for many analysts - Q&A comes to Power BI Desktop, albeit in Preview.

Do be aware that if you have subscribed to the Windows Insider Program, you may be at risk if you haven’t updated your PC in a while. Support for early versions of Windows 10 has now ended.

Microsoft has taken a while to announce the updates, but they have been busy behind the scenes with more updates for the Power BI Service.

Excel 2016 now supports custom functions in JavaScript, albeit in Developer Preview.