Microsoft free Power BI is slated to get some serious mapping capabilities, as Microsoft yesterday announced ArcGIS for Power BI by Esri is on the way sometime this year.

I can open up Excel, I can add a toolbar from ArcGIS Online that allows me to make maps of any of my Excel data, by taking a tabular data set and simply associating it with ArcGIS Online.

Esri announced new AI tools based on its partnership with Microsoft, Gaussian splats in its ArcGIS platform and more extended reality tools at its 45th user conference.

The first two entries are: Using the Image Overlay Tool for Google Earth, and Creating Google Earth Time Display Data with ArcGIS. I especially like the time visualization article.