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on 28 Jan 2016 04:49:51

Need to add 'Hourly' to the available refresh schedule options. i.e. each hour within a 24hour day. Or allow for up to 24 times...would be nice if there were more than on the hour or half hour also.

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69f78d32 b61e-4b6a-a8cc-9c8e5bbe8430 on 05 Jul 2020 22:48:05

RE: hourly refresh

agreeing with comments here

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30394a98 ef8b-429c-b21e-5671df817cc2 on 05 Jul 2020 22:46:36

RE: hourly refresh

The current limitation of having 8 daily refreshes does not meet the needs of every business. Granting ownership to member to do manual refreshes is not ideal and does not scale to large organization.

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e9604060 dcaf-4940-b222-fb0250759b4c on 05 Jul 2020 22:46:02

RE: hourly refresh

This is definitely a must, especially for providing information to consumers in each US time zone and those who need access to data overnight. Ideally, there should be an option for 24 refreshes.

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0ac8fbf5 8882-4edd-a156-5edfe23a3137 on 05 Jul 2020 22:37:04

RE: hourly refresh

This is a great idea. One important part of PowerBI is combining many data sources so being able to have refreshes more than a fixed 8 times to day will make this even more valuable.

Having a fixed number of times is okay, but having only 8 puts us in a box and in a 24/7 business environment it's far from ideal and greatly limits how fast we can move with this tool to wider adoption AND licensing!

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2e6338bf 921d-4361-a001-1e13b21e0c35 on 05 Jul 2020 22:37:04

RE: hourly refresh

If we have access to live data feeds from our data warehouses, it would be extremely beneficial to have live updates in the tool as well. This function becomes critical for an organization at the end of a period, whether it be weekly, monthly, quarterly, etc., when there are goals and KPIs involved.

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a09e83eb 1f35-42cc-9da9-0d413e35d207 on 05 Jul 2020 22:37:03

RE: hourly refresh

If this is supposed to be the BI tool of the future we need to be able to update our data more than 8 times a day!! Honestly this makes the tool almost useless for half of our field sales reporting. We really need 48 updates a day, every half hour would be ideal for us right now.

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41e5a151 eb13-48e7-a052-4b385d1d8229 on 05 Jul 2020 22:36:59

RE: hourly refresh

We are a global company that needs to provide dashboard data at all times of the day. The limited amount of refreshes is inadequate. Highly support adding an hourly refresh schedule. Every hour of every day or every hour of days selected.

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f0a5298d e5d7-4cf7-bc7d-aa247ca4fa80 on 05 Jul 2020 22:36:02

RE: hourly refresh

I'm a great fan of PowerBI. But we (your customers) really need that more than 8-time refresh daily. Every hour (24 times) is good but if can be more than that, the better.

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9e5983c5 f031-41c5-892a-f4e4b37ab191 on 05 Jul 2020 22:31:57

RE: hourly refresh

We at least need to have a 12 hour window of hourly update. I.E. 14 slots of update.. 8 is an ideal situation but we work 20 hours and 4 hours of processing downtime. I think most of the global companies will need it.

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f9a2a55b d516-4842-9c5c-2ce36b51c354 on 05 Jul 2020 22:25:30

RE: hourly refresh

please increase the maximum refreshes to at least 12 times a day!