This document provides a summary of new and exciting features in Power BI for October 2019. It includes: 1) Updates to the Power BI Desktop including improved drill through discovery, decomposition trees, and grouping visuals on the same page. 2) A recommendation to use Charticulator for data visualization. 3) Improvements to apps templates with versioning and overrides. 4) New connectivity options for Power BI including support for PostgreSQL databases and direct query. 5) Updates to paginated reports including adding comments and secure embedded support. 6) Recommendations for webinars, blogs and training resources about Power BI data flows, managing many models, and choosing between Power BI

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What’s new and Exciting?
October 2019
Last Time …

2. PowerPlatform Career Center
• https://www.pbiusergroup.com/resources/career-center

3. Desktop update – in October
& late September
• Drill Through is better discovered – hover over
• Decomposition Tree
• Find clusters in a visual (not this month)
• Grouping Visuals on the same page
• Variance Table Viz visual
• Globe Data
• Performance Analyzer

4. Charticulator –
Paul Turley
• https://charticulator.com/doc
s/getting-started.html
• wonderful presentation in
Vancouver PowerPlatform
World Tour –
• https://sqlserverbi.blog/2019
/09/26/power-platform-world-
tour-vancouver-presentations/

5. Apps & Service
• Goodbye to content packs
• Apps template with versioning + Override version
• Template App including Google analytics

6. Connectivity
• PostgreSQL – Connector for Desktop
• Supports folding over native query
(Push the query back to the DB, process it there and not on client
side – improves performance )
Data flow can than only import the data and not process the data,
which helps with big data scenarios (Query Folding in PowerIB, Carl
De Souza)
• Direct Query support generally available
• Query Diagnostics

7. CDS – Dynamics O365 & PowerPlatform & Azure
• PostgreSQL –
• Supports folding over native query
(Push the query back to the DB, process it there and not on client
side – improves performance )
Data flow can than only import the data and not process the data,
which helps with big data scenarios (Query Folding in PowerIB, Carl
De Souza)
• Direct Query support generally available

8. CDS – Data Scientist and MetaData Management
• Great blog post by Jane Stirrup
https://datarelish.net/2019/09/28/how-can-data-
scientists-get-on-board-with-metadata-management/

9. Paginated Reports
• Adding comments to your reports
• Secure Embedded Support – enabled to embed in
other BI reports and websites
• RDL Migration Tool on GitHub -
https://github.com/microsoft/RdlMigration
Migrate SQL Server Reporting Services reports (RDL)
from their local server(s) to a Power BI workspace in
their tenant

10. Report Server – On premise – Our Presenter is
going to be talking about it today!
• Updated design!
• Visual Level Filters for Slicers
• Sorting Pane
• Visual header tooltip
• Table matrix total label –
configurable
• Sync slicer support for Hirercy
• Icons for matrix!

11. Webinars/Blogs etc..
• Data Flows including large Data Flows
https://ssbipolar.com/ - Mathew Roche
• Managing Many Models with PowerBI
https://feathersanalytics.com
Joseph Yeates
• Choosing a model in PowerBI vs SSAS Tabular
https://blog.pragmaticworks.com
PragmaticsWorks - Bob Rubocki
PowerBI Blog
Guy in a cube
Free Training Avi Singh
Creating Accessible PowerBI reports
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-
us/developers/
All source code for visuals in GitHub
PowerBI Where
Should I start?
This month’s favorites

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StartingwithMicrosoftMonday morning
Willmiss you all guys and willbe back for
futuremeetings!
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@Yana_Berkovich
Who will be doing the 15 minutes from now on?
Scott Stauffer
Josef Yeates