March has been an exciting month for the Power BI community.
With promises from Microsoft’s Data Insights Summit coming into fruition, Power BI has many new and auspicious features just waiting to be utilized by the Power BI community. Two updates have been released this month, one in regards to Power BI Desktop and the other on PowerBI.com. Below is a list of new features exclusive to Power BI Desktop in the March update. For more details about a specific feature, click here.
Report View:
- Ability to publish reports to a Group Space in Power BI Service
- Reports respect Do Not Summarize model setting from SSAS MD
Data Modeling:
- Ability to change the datatype of a column when in DirectQuery mode
- Ability to assume Referential Integrity on relationships in Direct Query
- DirectQuery for Oracle and Teradata moves out of preview
Data Connectivity:
- SAP BW Connector (Preview)
- R Scripts connector
- Support for Command Timeout in the UX
- Setting to disable Privacy Level prompts at machine level
- New Transformations:Remove Blanks via Column Filter menuConvert Duration values to YearsKeep Duplicates
- Support for whitespace and line feeds in Query Editor preview
- Navigator enhancements:Ability to disable preview from NavigatorTechnical name support
- Load: Auto-step to disambiguate conflicting column names
- Rename queries directly from Queries pane.
- Smartsheet connector GA
Here is a list of the new features added to the Power BI Service (PowerBI.com) in March 2016.
Dashboards:
- Featured dashboard
- Filter dashboard list
Enterprise features:
- Admin Usage Reporting
- Row-level Security
- Disable exporting data
Q&A:
- Auto complete for “is”
Mobile:
- KPIs on your Apple Watch
Excel:
- Analyze in Excel
Other:
- Power BI in Australia
- Language Settings