It's not just Power BI Desktop that's had a spruce up this month. Microsoft has been busy and has also released additional features across Power BI Service and Mobile throughout too.

Forms for Excel, powered by Microsoft Forms, has replaced Excel Survey. This update, presently available for Office 365 Commercial and Education customers, comes with a modern experience to make it simple and easy to collect information from users in the same...

Every now and then an improvement comes through in Excel that is truly newsworthy. Most features and functions we put in the Thought section in due course – but this one is different. Loads of users want this. I am talking about gaps in charts.

At last!! It took just 30 years, but PivotCharts come to MacExcel (well, sort of). For spreadsheeters using the latest Excel for Mac Insiders Fast release, there is now PivotChart support.

Earlier this week at Microsoft Ignite in Orlando (Florida), the software giant announced Office 2019 — the next "perpetual update" for Office. This release, scheduled for the second half of 2018, will include perpetual versions of the Office apps (including Word,...

It’s been a while since we’ve travelled, but we are off and away again – pretty much for the rest of 2017! October will see us all over Australia as well as in London en masse and Singapore. Drop us a line at contact@sumproduct.com if you’d like to meet up. We’d be...

This is the one the world has been waiting for! You'll get no overstatements here...Power BI Desktop finally releases two features that were demoed back at the Data Insights Summit that really got everyone talking: drillthrough and report insights. That’s not all...

And the award for the catchiest news title of the year... does not go to the above. Anyway, some of you will be interested to learn that Microsoft has announced "initial Preview availability" of a new feature that allows you to create custom entities based on data...

We are suspecting these are beginning to taper off now, as the updates are becoming progressively more difficult to find and they are not being summarised in such detail (if the laws of grammar allow you to do such a thing!).Anyway, Microsoft has just released...

The Power BI Desktop juggernaut continued to speed forward at a rate of knots. Probably the key one this month (certainly many users have been excited about this since it was revealed at the Data Insights Summit) is the ability to interact with controls on a report...