New year, new updates in Power BI!
Moviang toward this time every month, Our Microsoft’s Power BI team monitors and scans through the updates being brought out by Microsoft Team. In the February update for the administration, the details are seeming to be more extensive than expected. Updates have been introduced with different parts including data management, reporting, modeling, visualizations, template apps, data preparation, and data connectivity.
Following are the changes made and mentioned accordingly in the table.
| Features | Changes |
| Dataset management | Incremental refresh is now generally available |
| Reporting | Hierarchical slicer (preview) |
| Updates to the new ribbon (preview) | |
| Title bar updates | |
| Keytips | |
| Custom format strings | |
| Accessibility | |
| Modeling | New DAX Functions |
| FirstNonBlankValue | |
| LastNonBlankValue | |
| Visualizations | Funnel and pyramid chart by xViz |
| OEE Dashboard by 3AG Systems | |
| Organization chart by MAQ Software | |
| PI VIZpack by PQ Systems | |
| Histogram | |
| Individuals control chart | |
| Individuals and moving range control chart | |
| Multi-group individuals chart | |
| X-bar control chart | |
| X-bar and range control chart | |
| P-chart | |
| U-chart | |
| Updates to Zebra BI tables and charts | |
| Template Apps | Microsoft 365 usage analytics |
| NFL analytics by P3 | |
| Acterys for Quickbooks, Xero & WorkflowMax | |
| Data preparation | Non-admin support for query diagnostics |
| Data connectivity | MicroStrategy connector is now generally available |
| FHIR connector is now generally available | |
| Factset connector | |
| TIBCO connector | |
| Jamf Pro connector | |
| Asana connector |
As you can already see, the highlights are incremental refresh for Pro users, and a preview of the new hierarchical slicer. With regards to the latter, although similar capabilities have already been offered through a hierarchy slicer available on AppSource, the built-in slicer visuals have now been upgraded to support hierarchies.
Below video will give you more details about the update.
Stay tuned for more blogs!
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Gaurav Lakhotia
Gaurav holds an MBA in Business Analytics. As a data geek and avid learner, he has earned accolades including Microsoft Certified Data Analyst, Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator, and active Power BI Community contributor. He is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer. With critical thinking and project delivery skills, he strives to achieve customer delight in Data Analytics projects. Gaurav loves travelling with friends when he is not busy working on data.
