Today, we are further enabling external tools to work with Power BI datasets, this time from within the Power BI Desktop authoring experience. We are excited to announce the public preview of external tool support in Power BI Desktop.
» Read moreIn Power BI, you can now use service principals to automate common tasks such as deploying models, performing a data refresh, and applying model changes. Permissions are assigned to service principals through workspace membership, much like regular user accounts.
» Read moreIt’s time to recap all the features and announcements we made for the Power BI service and mobile for the months of February and March.
» Read moreWe are excited to announce the public preview of read/write capabilities for the XMLA endpoint in Power BI Premium.
» Read morePuzzled when to use Power BI Premium vs Azure Analysis Services? Power BI Premium is where future investments will be made but there are things to consider when making a choice.
» Read moreWe are excited to announce the public preview of large models in Power BI Premium. This enables fast user interactivity over large datasets. Until now, dataset caches in Power BI Premium have been limited to 10 GB after compression. Large models remove this limitation, so dataset cache sizes are limited only by the Power BI Premium capacity size.
» Read moreWe are excited to announce RC1 of SQL Server 2019 Analysis Services (SSAS 2019). The SSAS 2019 release is now feature complete! We may still make performance improvements for the RTM release. RC1 introduces the following features: Custom ordering of calculation items in calculation groups Query interleaving with short query bias for high concurrency workloads Online attach for optimized synchronization of read-only replicas SuperDAXMD for improved performance of Power BI reports over SSAS multidimensional Governance setting to control Power BI cache refreshes
» Read moreIt’s time again to recap the major features and announcements we made in the Power BI service and mobile for the month of July.
» Read moreWith the public preview available for “Multi-Protocol Access” on Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, now AAS can use the Blob API to access files in ADLSg2. Check how to do it!
» Read moreAs we kick off the Microsoft Business Application Summit with our amazing community at Atlanta, I wanted to share some exciting Power BI news as part of the event, including the June release of Power BI Desktop and the general availability of Paginated Reports in the service.
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