We’re excited to announce new capabilities and improvements for Power BI goals that make it easier than ever to integrate goals into all of your business processes. Learn about the new goals visual, Power Automate integration, goal level permissions, and other experience enhancements.
» Read more We’re excited to announce enhancements to the Power BI experiences for Excel users. Read this blog to learn how these changes help more Excel users use data from Power BI to make decisions.
» Read more As we move into the last third of the year, the Power BI team have had a busy summer working on delivering exciting innovation for you, our community. We have a number of sessions during Ignite delivered by experts which gives you a great sense of the capabilities you can try, deploy or scale for your organization. As with everything we do, we’re grounded on the mission of empowering every individual, team and organization make better data driven decisions. Let’s take a look what sessions you can put into your backpack this Ignite.
» Read more Try out the new integration (GA) that enriches Azure Purview, Microsoft’s catalog tool, with detailed metadata from your organization’s Power BI assets.
» Read more This deep dive session teaches campers how to use deployment pipelines for managing the application lifecycle of datasets and reports and for enabling CI/CD in a Power BI environment. The session explains how deployment pipelines are configured to create dedicated workspaces for developing and testing Power BI artifacts including datasets, reports, dashboards and dataflows.
» Read more As mentioned in the June and July feature summaries, we are switching a vital component of Power BI from CefSharp to WebView2. We’re making this switch to better optimize our development and release process (which means we’ll be able to spend more time developing new features!). It also means that you’ll automatically get the latest security patches as the WebView2 team ships them instead of waiting for us to update Power BI Desktop. Please continue reading as we have some important announcements to make and recommended actions for you to take.
» Read more Welcome to the October 2021 update. Leaves fall, Power BI calls; and we are excited to release additional functionality and performance improvements for DirectQuery, optimization for the SWITCH function, and new Bitwise DAX functions.
» Read more We are thrilled to announce some exciting new capabilities for streaming dataflows in Power BI.
» Read more We are excited to announce that XMLA endpoints on Premium Per User (PPU) now support Azure Active Directory (AAD) authentication with service principals. This authentication option enables administrative applications to perform automated maintenance tasks and unattended service-level operations by using their own app identities, which is often a requirement for migration of existing tabular data models from Azure Analysis Services and SQL Server Analysis Services to Power BI Premium. For technical details, see the article Automate Premium workspace and dataset tasks with service principals in the product documentation.
» Read more We are pleased to announce the preview availability of our new Unused Artifacts API. The initial version of this API returns a list of datasets that have not been used within 30 days for a specified workspace, and successive revisions will include other artifact types such as reports and dashboards.
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