What's new and existing with PowerBI August 2019? new features for exciting KPI's new visuals, RLS in aggregation, community events and so much more

1. Yana Berkovich Data Platform MVP
@yana_Berkovich
YanaBerkovich.com
What’s new and Exciting?
August 2019

2. About Me
BI Analyst& DEV, Microsoft Data Platform MVP
Consultant, Product Manager
Reportingstream Lead – PHSA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yanaberkovich
http://yanaberkovich.com
@Yana_Berkovich

3. JULY Desktop update – in August…
• Conditional formatting – KPI’s icon sets
(So much choice!)
Adding your own pictures is easier than ever with
linked image in your DAX code
Future – add a dropdown that will let pick from
existing rules – same as Excel
• Percent for conditional formatting %
• New filter pain – general available
• Scatter charts and data colors
• Performance – improve on dates and
drop downs

4. Analytics -
• The AI – Key influencers visual has got new feature – counts
• RLS (Row Level Security) supports Aggregation –
• Aggregated data will display as aggregated only per the RLS, even if the summary
is across the whole data set.
• New Transform – Split data by
position in column

5. New Visuals
• PowerApps Visual – it’s official out of preview
• InfoCard better options
• Large font size
• Custom borders (no need for that box field
than borderless InfoCard and title on top…)
• Image and position control
• Conditional formatting – same as tables
• Rotating (MAQ software did it before with
rotating tile)
• MAQ - Sunburst and some
more we haven’t seen
• App Source - Flying brick

6. PowerBI Service Update
New region south Africa – will automatically be created using
Premium Multi-Geo Capacity
• The New look!
• 8% more screen (FourMoo)
• Simplified action bar
• Vertical navigation
• New colors and Icons
Navigation

7. Data Connectors Update
• Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 connector – beta
• Cosmos Connector – out of preview
• Dynamics 365 Customer insights connector – unify the
customer data across Dynamics data sources

8. Forester loves PowerBI too!
not just Gartner
• Enterprise BI platform Leader

9. Webinars/Blogs etc..
• Sterlings Charles Sterling has a new blog
RADACAD blog
• Super Mario goes to PowerBI
Zubair_Muhammad
(soft spot for games)
• Why PowerBI Shared DataSets are Critical to a
self –service BI implementation
Melissa Coastes
https://www.sqlchick.com/
PowerBI Blog
Guy in a cube
Free Training Avi Singh
Creating Accessible PowerBI reports
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-
us/developers/
All source code for visuals in GitHub
PowerBI Where
Should I start?
This month’s favorites

10. Events PowerPlatform World Tour!!
PASS summit – Nov 5-8, 2019
SQL Saturdays upcoming -
• SQLSaturday #866 - Auckland 2019
• SQLSaturday #888 - Sioux Falls 2019
• SQLSaturday #867 - Baton Rouge 2019
• SQLSaturday #885 - Sacramento 2019
• SQLSaturday #886 - Indianapolis 2019
• SQLSaturday #892 - Providence 2019
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