Starting this month, we have merged the Power BI Desktop, Service and Mobile blogs so there is one overview of everything that is new in this month. For now, let us get started because we have exciting updates this month! Amongst others, in the analytics area, we introduce a preview of the Smart narratives visual which helps you quickly summarize visuals and reports by providing relevant out-of-the-box insights which is customizable. On the reporting side, several things are added, including the introduction of controls for the z-order of visuals, and searching for a workspace during publish. For modeling, the enhanced dataset metadata that was previously in preview is now generally available. In the service, we introduce new capabilities in the lineage view and updates to analyze in Excel. Check out the full blog to learn more about all the updates and enhancements.
» Read more we are excited to announce that deployment pipelines become GA, along with additional new features.
» Read more The Smart narrative visualization helps you quickly summarize visuals and reports by providing relevant out-of-the-box insights that are customizable.
» Read more Power BI continues to innovate and today we are releasing Power BI app for HoloLens 2 with the goal to provide our users with real-time business information in the context of their work through a unique, delightful, immersive experience.. Using Power BI app on HoloLens 2 makes it easy to view and interact with reports and dashboards on top of your real-world environment.
» Read more Find out which Power BI Community Data Story won for September and which Data Story received an honorable mention! We also announce next month’s Data Stories Gallery theme at the end of the blog.
» Read more The ‘new look’ of the Power BI service is evolving again based on your feedback during public preview…
» Read more Last week we presented at the annual Gartner BI Bake-Off session which was moved to a virtual setting this year. We are very excited to share our bake-off demos and key findings with everyone.
» Read more We’re pleased to announce two new actions are available for the Power BI connector in Power Automate. Now, you may easily leverage the Power BI export API for either Power BI reports or paginated reports in your workflows in Power Automate.
» Read more This month’s Power BI Dev Camp topic is “Writing PowerShell Scripts for Power BI”. Learn to write PowerShell scripts to automate common administrative tasks in a Power BI environment such as uploading PBIX files, patching datasource credentials and refreshing datasets. In this camp session, we’ll go beyond the basics and explore advanced techniques such as calling Invoke-PowerBIRestMethod, parsing together REST URLs and converting PowerShell objects into JSON to populate the body of an HTTP request
» Read more Dynamics and Power Platform services’ geographical availability.
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