Episode 216 – December 2021 Power BI Feature Summary

This is episode 216 recorded on December 22nd, 2021 where John & Jason go over the December 2021 Power BI updates including Sparklines in Table & Matrix visuals, New Format Pane updates, Allow sharing links to include your changes to the report, and Announcing Public Preview of Hybrid Tables in Power BI Premium.

Show Notes

Reporting

• Sparklines
• New Format Pane updates

Data connectivity and preparation

• Azure Data Explorer (Connector Update)
• FHIR (Connector Update)
• Dremio Software (Connector Update)
• BQE Core (Connector Update)
• TIBCO Data Virtualization   
• Exasol (Connector Update)
• Starburst Enterprise (Connector Update)

Service

• Admin & governance
  • Email subscriptions access via Admin API
• Allow sharing links to include your changes to the report
• Announcing Public Preview of Hybrid Tables in Power BI Premium
• Deployment pipelines: assign a workspace to all pipeline stages

Mobile

• New report default view
• Recommended Content supports hints (Android and iOS)
• Mobile support for Goals – latest updates

Embedded Analytics

• Client API updates – Themes
• Power BI Developer in a Day instructor led and online course is updated

Developers

• Improve your matrix performance with the new 4.1 API

Visualizations

• New visuals in AppSource
• Shielded HTML Viewer by Nova Silva
• graphomate charts 2021.4
• Zebra BI Cards 1.0 by Zebra BI
• Leverage process mining through Business Intelligence by PmBI
• Drill Down Combo Bar PRO by ZoomCharts
• Paginated report visual    
• Charticulator (version 1.2.0)

Other

• Visualize your data quickly from Power Apps and Dynamics 365 apps