{"id":2909,"date":"2013-09-27T17:07:13","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T17:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aerocominc.com\/?p=2909"},"modified":"2015-05-07T16:06:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T23:06:05","slug":"office-365-unveils-new-power-map-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/office-365-unveils-new-power-map-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Office 365 Unveils New &#8220;Power Map&#8221; Feature!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Microsoft unveiled an update to its business intelligence service within <a href=\"http:\/\/aerocominc.com\/products\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Office 365<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, which is intended to help customers more easily track down data about their business. \u201cPower BI\u201d for Office 365 is currently in preview, but lets businesses drill down for easy-to-consume information about their operations. The main component of Power BI is Excel, and today\u2019s update provides users with color-coded 3D mapping capabilities that will likely jazz up any presentation! Don\u2019t bore audiences with a normal, plain chart! Thanks to Office 365\u2019s newest update, charts and maps will surely be attention grabbers in any meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Power Map feature<\/strong>, previously known as \u201cGeoFlow,\u201d allows for region-based visualization tools that color-code geo-political areas including ZIP codes,<a href=\"http:\/\/aerocominc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/401409-power-bi-for-office-365-power-map1.jpg\" rel='magnific'><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2910\" title=\"401409-power-bi-for-office-365-power-map\" src=\"http:\/\/aerocominc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/401409-power-bi-for-office-365-power-map1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a> counties, states, countries, and regions. Rather than a flat pie or bar chart, Power Map allows users to plot data points with Bing Maps to bring them to life- literally! Steer away from the usual, boring graphs and charts and use Power Map to beautifully display location settings with easy-to-use Power Map!<br \/>\nPower Map not only allows charts, maps and graphs to be 3D and in color\u2014 videos too! Whether compiling a presentation video or a slideshow, Power Map allows its users to create videos and share across all social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cPower Map now enables customers to create videos that can be optimized for a number of devices and shared through social media, PowerPoint slides, and Office 365,\u201d<\/strong><\/em><strong> a Microsoft spokeswoman said.<\/strong><\/p>\n[php snippet=8]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t display boring one dimensional graphs anymore! Office 364 unveils the new &#8220;Power Map&#8221; feature that allows users to create 3-D, colored charts and graphs!  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/office-365-unveils-new-power-map-feature\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more &#8250;<\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}