Shout out for my favourite Power BI MSDN and TechNet blogs this month

I wanted to call out some of our favourite TechNet and MSDN blogs posted about Excel, Power BI, Office365 and Azure over the past month. These links are a great place to get started if you want to know more about how you could use PowerBI.

I’ve selected some of the most interesting case studies, and we’d like to call out the Data Insights from the Microsoft Vision Center at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2014 in particular. Some of our readers will be in the world of Finance, so the article Power BI for Finance will be of most interest here.

· Announcing the General Availability of Power BI for Office 365

· Global Media Agency Expects Better Campaign Performance with Power BI: No Training Required

· Using Windows Azure to Speed up Genome Research and Save Millions of Dollars

· What Drives Microsoft’s Data Platform Vision?

· Making Big Data Work for Everyone

· Simplifying Business Intelligence through Power BI for Office 365

· Power BI for Finance

· Getting Trained on Microsoft’s Expanding Data Platform

· New Enhancements to Windows Intune

· Putting it all Together with Microsoft People-centric IT

· In-Memory OLTP Index Troubleshooting, Part II

· Database Backup with Memory-Optimized Tables