Posts categorized: Features

Governance settings for Power BI cache refreshes from Azure Analysis Services

Power BI Live Connect reports allow the dataset to be stored in Azure Analysis Services (Azure AS) or SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) while the report itself resides in the Power BI service. Report interactivity can be enhanced by Power BI maintaining caches of dashboard tile data and report data for initial load. However, enterprise … Continue reading “Governance settings for Power BI cache refreshes from Azure Analysis Services”

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Paginated Reports now supported in Apps in Power BI

With Power BI apps, you can create collections of dashboards and reports and publish these apps to your whole organization or to specific people or groups.  For the second post in our series we’re calling “New Feature Friday”, we’re pleased to announce that Paginated Reports can now be published from your workspaces as part of … Continue reading “Paginated Reports now supported in Apps in Power BI”

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Privacy Levels for Cloud Data Sources

In Power BI datasets that combine data from multiple data sources in a single M query, privacy levels define a how the data sources are isolated from each other. Restrictive isolation levels block data from being exchanged with other data sources, which can reduce functionality and impact performance but ensures that sensitive data does not … Continue reading “Privacy Levels for Cloud Data Sources”

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Power BI Desktop April 2019 Feature Summary

April is an exciting month for Power BI Desktop! Our April update has major updates across the entire product. This release adds the ability to define the titles of your visuals and the URLs of your buttons based on DAX expressions, which is only our first step towards making every property of a visual expression-based. You can also now easily link reports within a workspace together with across-report drillthrough support. We have a lot of new connectors this month and several of our preview connectors are now generally available, including the Power BI dataflows and PDF connectors. Data prep gets some major updates as well with the GA of data profiling and M intellisense.

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Power BI Service and Mobile March 2019 Feature Summary

It’s time again to recap all the features and announcements we made in the month of March. Premium Multi-Geo General Availability Users outside your organization can edit and manage content with Azure AD B2B On-premises data gateway March update Public preview of XMLA endpoint Slideshow in presentation mode for Windows Power BI app Updates to … Continue reading “Power BI Service and Mobile March 2019 Feature Summary”

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“Mayor of the Internet” Alexis Ohanian to keynote Microsoft Business Applications Summit

We’re so excited to announce Alexis Ohanian as our special guest keynote speaker for Microsoft Business Applications Summit, coming to Atlanta, Georgia June 10 – 11, 2019. Dubbed “Mayor of the Internet” by Forbes, Ohanian co-founded Reddit in 2005. He sold the site to Condé Nast in 2006, but returned in 2015 as executive chair … Continue reading ““Mayor of the Internet” Alexis Ohanian to keynote Microsoft Business Applications Summit”

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Power BI Paginated Report Builder Now Available

To kick off our series of posts this month we’re calling “New Feature Friday”, we’re pleased to announce the initial release of Power BI Report Builder, the latest companion application for Power BI that lets you author Paginated Reports. It is a free, standalone Windows Desktop application that can be downloaded from the Power BI … Continue reading “Power BI Paginated Report Builder Now Available”

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Announcing New Workspace Experience General Availability (GA)

I’m happy to announce that starting today, the New Workspace Experience has reached General Availability (GA). With the new workspace experience, Power BI workspace admins can use security groups to manage access to workspaces, enable BI teams to create workspaces without needing to create an Office 365 Group, and to provide granular workspace roles to … Continue reading “Announcing New Workspace Experience General Availability (GA)”

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Creating Machine Learning models in Power BI

We’re excited to announce the preview of Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) for Dataflows in Power BI. AutoML enables business analysts to build machine learning models with clicks, not code, using just their Power BI skills. Power BI Dataflows offer a simple and powerful ETL tool that enables analysts to prepare data for further analytics. You … Continue reading “Creating Machine Learning models in Power BI”

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Azure Analysis Services now supported and what’s coming next with Paginated Reports in Power BI

Power BI is a platform that lets you meet the diverse needs of your enterprise user base, from self-service analytics to centralized report distribution.  A critical part of this flexibility is the enterprise semantic model, which provides a secure, governed, and descriptive representation of your business metrics, available as a single source of truth across … Continue reading “Azure Analysis Services now supported and what’s coming next with Paginated Reports in Power BI”

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