Power BI Desktop

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Power BI Desktop continues to bring new capabilities to users. A strong focus on the fundamentals has unlocked new scenarios for large enterprises—including more accessible reporting and a continued investment in improving SAP connectivity.

New capabilities in Power BI Desktop include new ways for report consumers to tweak visuals to answer specific questions about their data, even if they don’t have edit access to the report, support for a pivot table-like expand/collapse on the matrix visual, and continued improvements to Q&A usability in Power BI.

For authors of Power BI content, the desktop product has added broad capabilities to improve their experience and authoring power. Composite models allow mashups across DirectQuery and import data sources, allowing authors to augment data sources with additional insights. New navigation options, more flexible theming and branding, Microsoft Office-like features, and expression-based formatting give authors the tools they need to create rich Power BI content with ease.

A new Power BI dataflows connector in Power BI Desktop lets authors easily add entities from Power BI dataflows to their data models and use them to create advanced reports and visualizations leveraging the standard schema of the Common Data Model. Authors can even mash up dataflow data with data from other sources to build fully customized solutions.

Power BI Desktop continues to leverage AI and natural language to make authors’ lives easier, bringing even more intelligence and insight into Power BI reports. By leveraging new telemetry from Power BI, partners can learn how Q&A is being used in their Power BI apps and use this data to improve their Q&A results. In addition, they will now get Quick Insights on more metrics, including non-additive measures. These new capabilities allow the report author to ensure their users get the best results when working with Q&A and Quick Insights, by leveraging both AI and the specific domain knowledge only the author can bring.