What’s new in Power Query & Dataflows – November 2020
We have added lots of new capabilities to Power Query Online & Dataflows. This blog post provides a recap walkthrough of these new capabilities.
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Power BI Desktop August 2019 Feature Summary
Our August release has another hotly anticipated feature from the Microsoft Business Application Summit, grouping. Grouping in reports, similar to PowerPoint’s grouping, lets you easily organize groups of visuals to move and resize them as a set. This month’s release also has some updates to our newest features, such as a icon set picker for our newly added icons conditional formatting and measure support for key influencers.
» Read morePower BI Desktop July 2018 Feature Summary
July is a big release for us on the Power BI Desktop team! Our most exciting feature this month is a preview of Composite models. This feature lets you seamlessly extend your DirectQuery models with other DirectQuery sources or even imported data. We have heard from many of you, especially those in larger enterprises, that this is an essential feature and are glad to share it with all of you. We also have many reporting features this month, including an update to our visual header that lets you not only put visual all the way to the top of your canvas, but also have extensive control over the functionality and formatting of the header.
» Read morePower BI Desktop April Feature Summary
This month, on top of our normal of visual & data connector improvements, we have two exciting features that lets report consumers interact with reports in a new way. The Q&A Explorer enables report consumers to ask their own questions about the data, and buttons let you add interactive elements on your reports.
» Read morePower BI Desktop March Feature Summary
This month is a very exciting month for us! We are making several of our most popular connectors generally available, including SAP HANA. Bookmarking is also now generally available, which means you can start creating bookmarks from scratch in the Power BI Service. We are also previewing a powerful feature, report page tooltips, that lets you use visuals in your own custom designed tooltips.
» Read morePower BI service October and November feature summary
The past couple of months have been a whirlwind for the Power BI team! Our engineering team has continued to work hard to release many features that many of you have been anticipating. Here’s a quick…
» Read moreAnnouncing Single Sign-On Support when connecting to data sources from the Power BI Service
We’re glad to announce that it is now possible to use Single Sign-On, leveraging Kerberos, when connecting to certain data sources using DirectQuery mode from Power BI.
» Read morePower BI Desktop April Feature Summary
This month we are delivering a number of great capabilities. We are introducing Quick measures, which is a huge update to our Quick Calcs experience. We have some very exciting updates in both data connectivity and query editing, including allowing you to connect to datasets on the Power BI service, so you can create your model just once and use it in multiple reports. We also have an innovative new way to add columns in your query editor: add column by example. Additionally, we are extending our matrix preview with even more features and releasing a preview of Q&A in Spanish.
» Read moreConnecting to SAP Business Warehouse Server using Power BI
One of the new features in the Power BI Desktop March Update is a new connector for SAP Business Warehouse Server. This connector is currently available as a Preview feature, allowing Power BI and SAP customers to evaluate its capabilities and share feedback with our team to help us improve its functionality before making it available as a mainstream, fully supported, Power BI connector.
» Read moreBring your SAP HANA data to life with Microsoft Power BI
The SAP HANA connector is now available, allowing you to author reports in Power BI Desktop with a direct connection to SAP HANA.
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