Posts categorised: Announcements
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 moreAccess on-prem Report Server from your Power BI Mobile app with Azure Active Directory Application Proxy
Power BI Mobile team partnered with Azure Active Directory team to integrate Power BI mobile applications with Azure Active Directory (AAD) Application Proxy to connect to Report Server from their mobile app, without the need to setup complex on-premise configuration.
» Read morePower BI Premium new capacity settings allow for more control over datasets
Five new Power BI Premium Capacity settings are available in the portal , preloaded with default values. Admin can review and override the defaults with their preference to better protect their capacity from running into issues and avoid problems before they arise.
» Read morePower BI Service and Mobile July 2019 feature summary
It’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 morePaginated Reports August 2019 Feature Update – Report Builder Update, SaaS embedding support and what’s coming soon
As we head into August, we’ve released two feature updates for Paginated Reports in Power BI, with several more on the way.
» Read moreAnnouncing Power BI “Back to School” Contest!
Last month, Power BI partnered with Hacking STEM and NASA to create an interactive, educational data story to teach students about radiation. Educators loved the idea of bringing Power BI data stories to the classroom, and they are looking for more! So, this month we are launching a “Back to School” Contest to engage and empower students with Power BI! The contest will run from August 1st to September 6th, and the winners will be featured in the Power BI Blog! Channel your love for education and get started today!
» Read morePower BI Developer community June & July update
This blog post covers the latest updates for Power BI embedded analytics and Custom Visuals.
» Read moreMicrosoft a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise BI Platforms
We are thrilled to announce that Forrester has recognized Microsoft as a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise BI Platforms (Vendor-Managed), Q3 2019 tied for the highest score in strategy and market presence. We are honored and humbled by this new recognition from both customers and the industry.
» Read moreAggregations for petabyte-scale BI is generally available!
The volume of data is growing at an ever-increasing rate. As it grows, so does the value to the companies that are able to unlock insights from it. Power BI is all about helping organizations embrace a data culture, where every user can make better decisions based on data big and small, no matter where that data is coming from Providing users a way to do analysis over large volumes of data has traditionally been challenging. Large volumes require extra compute power and specialized skills to effectively model and analyze. To unblock users, organizations have often relied on transforming big datasets into smaller, more manageable datasets, which can then be analyzed using traditional BI reporting and visualization tools. When data is transformed from big to small, the details of the data tend to get lost as dimensionality is traded away for size and performance. While insights are lost, management complexity and costs grow as development teams work to populate these multiple smaller datasets.
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