Power BI Desktop Update

Posted by Shawn Dorward

What’s new in Power BI Desktop?  Here’s a update on what’s available this month.

Power BI is an analytics tool that provides powerful insights into your data.  Microsoft boasts that Power BI can connect to hundreds of data sources, simplify data prep, and drive ad hoc analysis.

If you have never seen Power BI in action, you should check it out, it is an amazing tool.  I’ve used Power BI to crunch, spin and present visualizations for many different types of analytics.  It is truly a one stop BI tool.
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Throughout the past 2 years or so, Microsoft has been rolling out frequent updates (nearly monthly) to the desktop version, adding tons of new functionality and options throughout the application.
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​Here is a list of enhancements that were released in June 2017:

Report View

• Data bars for new table and matrix visuals
• Markers on line, area, and combo visuals
• Visual font family setting
• Horizontal image slicer​

• Combo chart formatting updates
• Bing maps improvements
• High density line sampling
• Accessible reports 
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Data Connectivity 

• Custom Data Connectors support
• Power BI service Live Connect to On-premises and Push streaming datasets
• Impala connector is now generally available 
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• Amazon Redshift connector is now generally available
• SAP BW connector - DirectQuery support
• IBM Netezza connector (beta) 

Query Editing

• Add Column from Examples enhancements

For more details on this release, click here.

For more information about past releases, checkout the Power BI archive.

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