New and improved connectors

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Improved connectors for Power BI

Connectors provide direct access to a wide range of data sources in Power BI.

New connectors for General Availability

  • Adobe Analytics
  • Azure Analysis Services
  • IBM Netezza

New connectors for Public Preview

  • HDInsight Interactive Query
  • Data.World
  • Vertica
  • Azure Consumption Insights
  • Dynamics 365 for Financials

Improvements to the SAP BW connector

  • DirectQuery connector (General Availability)
  • Support for Dimension properties (Key, Short/Medium/Long Text, and custom properties)
  • Kerberos-based Single Sign-On (coming in April)
  • Variable input UX enhancements
  • SAP certification (coming in April)

Improvements to the SAP HANA connector

  • Multidimensional DirectQuery connector (General Availability)
  • HANA SSL certificate validation support
  • Variable input UX enhancements
  • SAP certification (coming in April)

Improved connectors for PowerApps, Flow, and Logic Apps

Connectors provide access to a wide range of data sources in PowerApps, Flow, and Logic Apps.

Improvements to the SQL Server connector (General Availability)

  • Performance improvements and increased throttling for shared connections in PowerApps
  • Support for SQL views, which improves the overall app performance in PowerApps
  • Support for SQL temporal tables

Improvements to the Office 365 Outlook connector

  • New trigger for emails with @mentions
  • New action to forward email
  • New action to respond to a calendar event
  • New action to export emails
  • Ability for users to customize text for send approval mail actions (General Availability)

Improvements to the Office 365 Users connector (General Availability)

  • New action to update the user profile
  • New action to update the user photo
  • New action to look up people relevant for a user
  • New action for trending documents for a user

Improvements to the Visual Studio Team Service connector

  • New action to query work items
  • Ability for users to get work item details (including custom fields)
  • Updated actions to create/update work items to include additional fields

Additional connectors

The following connectors, many of which are built by our partners, are also available for Public Preview:

  • Azure Container Instance
  • Azure Kusto
  • Azure SQL Data Warehouse
  • Content Moderator
  • Custom Vision
  • D&B Optimizer
  • Derdack SIGNL4
  • Docparser
  • Enadoc
  • Excel Online (Business)
  • Excel Online (OneDrive)
  • Flow management
  • iAuditor
  • Infobip
  • Kintone
  • Metatask
  • Microsoft Kaizala
  • Microsoft To-Do (Business)
  • Pitney Bowes Data Validation
  • Pitney Bowes Tax Calculator
  • Plumsail Documents
  • Plumsail Forms
  • Plumsail SP
  • QnA Maker
  • ServiceNow
  • Tago
  • Workday HCM