Episode 208: Power BI Oct 2021 Feature Summary

This is episode 208 recorded on October 14th, 2021 where John & Jason go over the October 2021 Power BI updates including Heat map layer – Azure Maps Visual, improvements to Metamodels, ODBC support for Paginated Reports, and a call back to the September 2021 service update hidden feature.

Show Notes

Reporting

• Heat map layer – Azure Maps Visual
• DirectQuery for Power BI datasets and Azure Analysis Services
  • More flexibility when selecting tables
  • Performance improvements
• Tenant-level feature switch for Bing Maps

Modeling

• SWITCH performance optimization
• Bitwise functions in DAX

Data connectivity and preparation

• Amazon Redshift (Connector Update)
• Dataverse (Connector Update)
• Google Analytics (Connector Update)
• Azure Cosmos DB V2 (New Connector)
• Azure Databricks (Connector Update)
• Amazon Athena
• SIS-CC-SDMX (New Connector)
• SumTotal (Connector Update)
• Usercube (New Connector)
• Service
• Admin & governance
  • Premium Gen2
  • New API for determining who has access to what Power BI assets
  • Deployment pipeline APIs
• Upcoming automatic installation of the Power BI app for Microsoft Teams

Embedded Analytics

• Export Power BI report to file API – Preview Update
• Object-Level Security (OLS) is now generally available in Power BI Embedded
• Adjust zoom level for embedded Power BI reports
• Updated Multi-Geo support for Power BI Embedded
• Power BI Embedded Playground update – Use your own embed token
• Power BI Angular component

Developers

• Add modern tooltip to your custom visual
• Modal Dialog API update

Visualizations

• Lollipop Bar Chart by Nova Silva
• Drill Down TimeSeries PRO visual by ZoomCharts
• Inforiver by Lumel
• Hierarchical bar chart by Excelnaccess.com
• New visuals in AppSource
• Editor’s pick of the month

Other

• ODBC support for paginated reports
• New instructor led training, BEAT version is available for – DAX in a day