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New Premium Metrics App preview now available

We are excited to announce that the all new metrics app for premium capacities is available here as public preview! Please be sure to check the docs for detailed installation instructions. This app will be the standard and only metrics app available out of the box for premium capacities after Premium Gen2 reaches General Availability …

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Announcing automated statuses and improved filtering for Power BI Goals

Announcing new features for Power BI Goals, including automated status rules and improved filtering.

Scanner API is now in GA

We are happy to announce that the Scanner APIs for extracting tenant-level metadata using Power BI Admin REST APIs are now in general availability (GA). Power BI Admin APIs, along with a .NET SDK, enable administrators to create their own custom-made solutions based on Power BI metadata and lineage.

Microsoft named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Augmented BI Platforms, Q3 2021

Today, Forrester has recognized Microsoft as the Leader in both strategy and current offering in The Forrester Wave: Augmented BI Platforms, Q3 2021.

Enhanced experience for browsing visuals

A new look for the Power BI in-product store coming with August release!  In the store you can browse all the visuals authorized by your organization.

Power BI August 2021 Feature Summary

Welcome to the August 2021 update, can you believe that it’s August already?! In this update we have exciting new things for Q&A as well as for Shapes. Also, new this month is Automatic aggregations for DirectQuery. There is more to explore, please continue to read on.

Announcing Power BI Angular Component

Today we are thrilled to introduce the newly released Power BI component for Angular. This component lets you easily embed your Power BI reports, dashboards and more into your Angular web application.

Announcing refresh history updates for models utilizing XMLA endpoints

Models utilizing XMLA endpoints will reflect refresh details in the Power BI Service!

Power BI Ideas site updates

Since Power BI launched, we have been listening carefully across our different avenues of feedback to what you, our users, need added to the product. Our Ideas site has been the main place for you to leave suggestions. In July 2020 we migrated to a new platform using Dynamics 365 and Power Portals, and we heard from you about issues with the new site. Over the past year, we addressed many of those issues and have recently made a larger update to fix some major problems.

Announcing the public preview of Power BI REST API support for DAX Queries

We are very excited to announce the public preview of a new REST API to query datasets in Power BI by using Data Analysis Expressions (DAX). Among other things, this new DAX REST API helps to address customer feedback concerning programmatic access to the data in a dataset (for example, the idea REST API access to READ datasets with almost 500 votes by the time of this announcement). The new DAX REST API avoids dependencies on Analysis Services client libraries, requires no connection to XMLA endpoints, and works in Power BI Premium as well as in Power BI shared capacity