Yana Berkovich is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and BI consultant who provides updates on new Power BI features in June 2019. Key updates include a redesigned desktop experience with new visualizations, formatting options, and accessibility features. The service also added new REST APIs, certified data sets, and connectors for Azure Data Explorer and Common Data Service. Yana encourages providing feedback to help improve Power BI and lists upcoming webinars, blogs, and community events.

1. Yana Berkovich Data Platform MVP
@yana_Berkovich
YanaBerkovich.com
What’s new and Exciting?
June 2019

2. About Me
BI Analyst& DEV, Microsoft Data Platform MVP
Consultant, Product Manager
Reportingstream Lead – PHSA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yanaberkovich
http://yanaberkovich.com
@Yana_Berkovich

3. Desktop Upgrade
• Update Pane design – new look off with the black…
• Visual level filters to slicers
• Sorting for Performance
• Conditional formatting up a level
• font, background and titles
• Cards visuals
• Gauge Fill
• Visual Header Tooltip

4. More Desktop…
• Visual Header Tooltip
• Table & Matrix Total Customization
• Sync Slicer Support for hierarchy slicer
• Consistent fonts across visuals – NO MORE PIXELS! (for the most
part it is points)
• Key Influencers –
• Keys added for Mouse adhesive
• Ctrl + right arrow to move focus inside the visual
• Enter/space to select whichever bubble is in focus
• When a bubble is selected, focus moves to the drill visual, and Esc will close it
• Support for Cloud RLS – analysis by role!
• Manage Aggregation dialog is accessible on preview

5. • New DAX == operator differentiate
0=Blank() filter =0 and filter is blank or
empty
• Improvement in M capabilities – data
preperation
• Preview – Personalized visualization Pane
– Your custom visuals “travel” with you to
other reports under the dashed line
• Synoptic Visual – needs an animation file
SVG
• Process Mining Visual
• Dual Card Visual

6. Premium capacity – Monitoring AI
• AI metrics are
available – full
health and
monitoring support
directly
• Number of AI
functions executed
depends on number
of cores
• Allows to identify
data Flow which
consumes the most

7. Export PowerBI REST API – (Embedding)
• New capability for your subscription API’s for REST operations
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/
1. Choose an operation
2. Select Try it
3. Sign in
4. Add Parameters (optional)
5. You have an active API to add in whatever you are building!
Example – APPS -> Get Apps ->
List of all the applications in my tenant
(We can check with my applications page in PowerBI service)

8. Data Connectivity –
Certified data set
• Sort the data connecting types
• Data connection that is a single
source of truth
• Free users cannot connect to
premium data sets
General Availability
• Azure Data Explorer
• Common Data Service
• Enhancement to Cosmos DB
connector

9. Webinars/Blogs etc..
• Help Improve POWERBI!!! Your feedback is
important
• Paginated reports update – guy in a cube
PowerBI Blog
Guy in a cube
Free Training Avi Singh
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-
us/developers/
All source code for visuals in GitHub
PowerBI Where
Should I start?
This month favorites

10. Events
The SQL Saturdays:
Olympia User Group
Seattle User group
June 19th –
MS Search, O365,
SharePoint & On
premise with PowerBI
PASS summit – Nov 5-
8, 2019