Vancouver PowerBI User Group presentation about the latest and greatest in Microsoft PowerBI this month

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

2. Mobile Release
• March release connected
HoloLense and PowerBI
• B2B support on mobile-
Publish & share with other
orgs
• Pre set to default – filter
added to Mobile

3. On Premise Reporting Release
• Update for on premise data gateways – download again…not
just the desktop!
• release month is now visible & it is using a better
synchronization

4. April Desktop Release
• Reporting
• Q&A Explorer (preview)
• Add a custom button for Q&A, not just in
the dashboard
• Save suggested questions to appear on the
report
• Building the report is easier now- just add
suggested answers
• Bring the page back – enable Q&A in page
info

5. April Release
• Buttons to trigger actions
• Combo chart line styles
• Different styles and colors
• Fill area under graph
• Improved default sort for visuals
• Order by column will prevail
• Sort by date as default
• Sort by measure value
• Numeric Slicer now generally
available

6. Analytics
• Update your linguistic schema – Detailed Dev
blog post:
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-
us/blog/editing-q-a-linguistic-schemas/
• New DAX function: COMBINEVALUES()
Key = COMBINEVALUES(":",[OrderID],[LineID]) -
Easier than CONCATENATE
Data connectivity
• Adobe Analytics connector now generally
available
• SAP HANA connector improvement: Port
selection
• Dynamics 365 Business Central connector

7. April Release – Custom Visuals
• Custom visuals
• Organizational visuals – inMobile as
well – generally available
• Overview by CloudScope
• Icon Map by Altius
• Hexbin Scatterplot

8. Top Kudos post
• https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/Power-
BI-Desktop-Custom-Aggregations-Formatting-and-
Performance/ba-p/388920
Commuity and blog top Kudus

9. About Me
BI Analyst,DataPlatformMVP
Consultant, ProductManager
Member of BI, BA, SharePoint,O365, PM communities
Data PlatformConsultant
ExperimentingwithO365
Worked as SharePointeverything,lovesharingmy insights.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yanaberkovich
http://yanaberkovich.com
@Yana_Berkovich