Several months ago, we introduced Power BI dataflows as Public Preview. Now, we’re happy to announce that Power BI dataflows are generally available! Power BI dataflows provide business analysts with a self-service data prep and management experience within Power BI, allowing them to collect business data from various sources, clean and transform it — leveraging … Continue reading “Announcing Power BI dataflows general availability”
» Read moreIn modern BI projects, understanding the flow of data from the data source to its destination, and understanding the data transformation done along the way, is a key challenge for many customers. This challenge becomes even bigger if you have built advanced analytical projects spanning multiple data sources, artifacts, and dependencies. Questions like “What happens … Continue reading “Power BI data lineage experience for dataflows”
» Read moreJanuary was a feature-filled month for the Power BI team! We kicked off this new year by announcing some of the highly requested features by our community and couldn’t have wished for a better start. We hope you’re just as excited for what’s to come for the rest of 2019! To recap, here’s a list of all the features we shipped last month.
» Read moreHappy new year everyone! We are kicking off the new year with an update to Power BI dataflows, focused on the dataflows editor. Power BI dataflows was introduced to public preview in November, and was well received. Since then we’ve been working to increase dataflows adoption even more by introducing new and exciting features. Today … Continue reading “Power BI dataflows January updates”
» Read moreWe saved the best for last. The final stretch of 2018 was incredible for the Power BI team. We announced some of our biggest previews, rolled out new features, and improved existing functionality across service and mobile based on your feedback. Before we ring in the new year, here’s a quick recap, in case you … Continue reading “Power BI Service and Mobile November & December Feature Summary”
» Read moreWe’re excited to introduce Paginated report and Dataflow metrics in Power BI Premium Capacity Metrics app (version 1.8)! The app supports monitoring the health of your premium capacities, providing…
» Read moreIn the modern BI world, data preparation is considered the most difficult, expensive, and time-consuming task, estimated by experts as taking 60%-80% of the time and cost of a typical analytics project. Some of the challenges in those projects include fragmented and incomplete data, complex system integration, business data without any structural consistency, and of course, a high skillset barrier. Specialized expertise, typically reserved for data warehousing professionals, is often required. Such advanced skills are rare and expensive.
» Read moreWe are very excited to announce that as part of our September update, we have a preview of aggregations, which allows you to seamlessly store only summarized values in memory without having to load your entire dataset into Power BI, greatly improving the performance of your reports. This month also includes a preview of a PDF file connector, which is the most requested connector on UserVoice; and one of our biggest updates to our advanced query editor in quite a while, M intellisense.
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