This is episode 57 recorded on July 23rd, 2018 where John & Jason recap the announcements at the 2018 Business Application Summit in Seattle, Washington.

Show Notes:

The Digital Feedback Loop

All about machine learning

Nothing is new – until now with data and predictions

Demos of CRM, Talent, Integration of LinkedIn Reporter

Remote Assist with AR and CRM data

Future of Modern and Enterprise BI

3 focus areas

• Unified Platform for  both self-service & enterprise BI
• Intuitive experiences
• Pervasive AI for BI

July Desktop Release – for another show…….

Enterprise

• Performance enhancements – 1.5 trillion rows, .25 PB of data was instant
  • Aggregation feature – aggregations caching
  • Showing direct connect to Spark
• Composite Models – multiple direct query
• SSRS – first see in August
• Multi Geo
• ALM – ALM Toolkit for Power BI from MAQ
• Data Flows is the final name for Data Pools – magic is open data lake storage direct connected.

Usability

• Fit and finish in Power BI Desktop. Now relationship editor, Design guides, visuals to the top
• PRINTING – PDF.
• Select on data to filter out
• OOB Themes
• Expression Based properties – even text properties like SSRS
• Pivot tables
• Commenting

AI

• Quick insights gets a big improvement
• Q&A within reports. “Explain the increase” with Quick insights.