PowerBI team in Microsoft is releasing monthly updates. I am reviewing those updates from their blog for our local Vancouver BC user group

1. Yana Berkovich Data Platform MVP
@yana_Berkovich
YanaBerkovich.com
What’s new and Exciting?
PowerBI June 2018

2. About Me
BI Analyst,DataPlatformMVP
Consultant, ProductManager
Member of BI, BA, SharePoint,O365, PM communities
Data PlatformConsultant
ExperimentingwithO365
Worked as SharePointeverything,lovesharingmy insights.
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@Yana_Berkovich

3. Desktop - Reporting
• High contrast support for reports - >
High contrast #1 & #2
• Donut radius control
• Pie and donut detail labels position
control
• Format data labels separately for
each measure in a combo chart

4. Desktop – custom Visuals and Modeling
• Custom visuals
• Organization Chart
• China Heat Map

5. Mobile –
• Drill through
• Report Server Configuration
• Canvas Length – Double!
• Configuration using MDM/EMM (Intune)
• Remote policy that IT is creating to be able to login to the server
using mobile APP in PowerBI, just with username and password
• Only in iOS (Android soon…)

6. Connectors
• SAP BusinessWarehouse connector improvements
• New driver and improved performance
• Improved support for hierarchy variables
Performance improvement, more rows of data
Execution mode, compress mode – PowerBI goes big data…
Date and Time dimention exposed as they are and not text
• Spark connector now supports Windows Authentication
• OData V4 connector enhancements
Support extra navigation properties, dynamic included
Improve support of custom URL
• ODBC connector improvements
• Folding support for Top Rows
• Ability to filter navigation by DSN catalog

7. Modeling
• Filtering and sorting in data view –
• Specific for data types
• In the Query editor
• Improved locale formatting-
• System data can use locals
• National cloud selector –
You can select 1 of 3 different
national clouds – local regulations on
service delivery

8. Webinars - PowerBI Debugger?
• 6/18 Webinar: My Power BI report is slow: what should I do? by Marco
Russo –
• analyzing the possible reasons for a slow Power BI report using
• Task Manager
• DAX Studio
• Possible solutions:
• change the report layout,
• DAX formulas
• data model that is responsible for the slow response.
• locate a performance bottleneck in a Power BI report, so you will focus
your attention on the biggest issue.
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-h3Pohtn1Y

9. July 22-24 Seattle
Blog post with all the PowerBI related content
Business Applications Summit