Episode 173: Power BI December 2020 Feature Summary

This is episode 173 recorded on December 18th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI December 2020 Feature Summary including the Direct Query for Power BI datasets and Azure Analysis Services preview, Small Multiples preview, Anomaly detection in all mobile apps, and much more.

Show Notes

Here is the full list of December updates:

Reporting

• DirectQuery for Power BI datasets and Azure Analysis Services (preview)
• Small multiples (preview)
• Data protection sensitivity labels in Power BI Desktop (preview)
• Increased rectangle select data point limit
• Selection pane is now available in the mobile layout view
• Automatic page refresh for Analysis Services sources

Data preparation

• Recent changes to Power Query and Dataflows

Data connectivity

• Microsoft Dataverse Connector
• Azure Time Series Insights Update
• SurveyMonkey Update
• Cognite Update

Service

• Power BI search in Microsoft Search in Bing and Office now generally available
• Home List experience
• Custom publish message
• New export settings are available in the Power BI admin portal
• Power BI Premium per user public preview now available
• Quickly create reports in the Service (coming soon)

Mobile

• Dark mode support in the Power BI Android app
• Anomaly detection is now supported in all mobile apps (iOS, Android and Windows)

Embedded

• New look for Embedded scenarios
• New capabilities in embedding for your organization
• Personalize visuals experience now fully supported on embedded scenarios
• New Q&A embed experience
• Power BI APIs & Life-Cycle Management
• Coming Soon

Visualizations

• New visuals
• Strip Plot by Nova Silva
• Intelligent Narratives by Arria NLG
• Editor’s picks

Template Apps

• Test Your Analytics Maturity
• Apps on AppSource
• Power BI Gold suite

Developers

• New Admin APIs and Service Principal authentication to make for better tenant metadata scanning
• Power BI Visuals Platform adds support for conditional formatting