Microsoft's Power BI became generally available  recently to much fanfare. We expect to see lots of our customers adopting this technology to make deploying their analytics solutions to wide audiences easier and more impactful. 

One of the questions that comes up often with regard to cloud-based solutions is, "How do we easily update the dashboards and reports from on-premises data?" In the past, you might have had to open a design tool on your desktop, reload the data and then republish the dashboard. Fortunately, Power BI includes a free component called the Personal Gateway.

The Power BI Personal Gateway is a service that you install on your computer that acts as a data bridge between your computer and the Power BI service.

In a recent Demo Day video, I show a method I use with Power BI to load and analyze Microsoft Azure consumption data. In this quick follow-up video, I'll show you how to refresh that dashboard with new data using the Power BI Personal Gateway.

 Watch the video below!

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