--- title: The Coeo Blog | analytics (2) description: analytics | The latest updates from Coeo on retail, gaming, finance and the Microsoft data platform (2) --- [![](https://www.coeo.com/wp-content/themes/coeo/images/logo.svg)](https://www.coeo.com/) +44 (0)20 3051 3595 | [info@coeo.com](mailto:info@coeo.com) | [Client portal login](https://my.coeo.com) # The Coeo Blog ## [Changes to the Power BI family](https://blog.coeo.com/gavinpayne/2017/05/04/changes-to-the-power-bi-family) Microsoft regularly delivers new functionality for its Power BI data analytics and visualisation services, but rarely does it change how you pay for it or how you deploy it.  In May 2017, it has and some of the changes are significant. [![Gavin Payne](https://blog.coeo.com/hubfs/Profile%20photos/GavinCircle.jpg)](https://blog.coeo.com/gavinpayne/2017/05/04/changes-to-the-power-bi-family) [Gavin Payne](https://blog.coeo.com/author/gavin-payne) | May 04 , 2017 ## [The importance of bringing Python to SQL Server](https://blog.coeo.com/importance-of-bringing-python-to-sql-server) Microsoft proudly announced this week that SQL Server 2017 will be the first relational database engine to ship with built-in artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. In the future, database servers running its software won’t just be able to store, query, and analyse data. Instead, they’ll also.. [![Gavin Payne](https://blog.coeo.com/hubfs/Profile%20photos/GavinCircle.jpg)](https://blog.coeo.com/importance-of-bringing-python-to-sql-server) [Gavin Payne](https://blog.coeo.com/author/gavin-payne) | April 21 , 2017 ## [Azure Data Factory Best Practices: Part 1](https://blog.coeo.com/azure-data-factory-best-practices-part-1) Recently I have been working on several projects that have made use of Azure Data Factory (ADF) for ETL. During these projects it became very clear to me that I would need to implement and follow certain key principles when developing with ADF. This is the first of a series of posts which will.. [![Craig Parsons](https://blog.coeo.com/hubfs/Profile%20photos/CraigCircle.jpg)](https://blog.coeo.com/azure-data-factory-best-practices-part-1) [Craig Parsons](https://blog.coeo.com/author/craig-parsons) | April 21 , 2017 ## [The evolution of artificial intelligence](https://blog.coeo.com/gavinpayne/2017/03/20/the-evolution-of-artificial-intelligence) Over the course of the next few months, I’m going to be presenting at a number of data related community meetups about “The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence”. [![Gavin Payne](https://blog.coeo.com/hubfs/Profile%20photos/GavinCircle.jpg)](https://blog.coeo.com/gavinpayne/2017/03/20/the-evolution-of-artificial-intelligence) [Gavin Payne](https://blog.coeo.com/author/gavin-payne) | March 20 , 2017 ## [Analysing the future of Microsoft analytics](https://blog.coeo.com/gavinpayne/2016/09/17/analysing-the-future-of-microsoft-analytics) Microsoft’s new Azure Data Lake service provides us with just as much insight about Microsoft’s strategic plans as it does with new technology. 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