Microsoft demonstrated the ability for its Power BI business intelligence tool to query datasets with up to 1 trillion rows, up from its current threshold of 10 billion.

Premium users of Microsoft's Power BI service will see a huge increase in the size of dataset caches, allowing for 400GB of storage capacity as opposed to only 10GB being available previously.

According to Microsoft, Power BI reports are “…a multi-perspective view into a dataset, with visuals that represent different findings and insights from that dataset.” It’s another way of ...

Power BI brings intuitive data analysis to both the executive level as well as Microsoft Office power users who have a penchant for number crunching, data slicing and dicing, and reporting.