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Power BI Desktop and Power BI Server March 2018 Updates

This month Microsoft have released a new production ready version of Power BI Report Server as well as a updates to Power BI Desktop with new visuals and a variety of connectors moving to general availability.

Power BI Report Server Updates March 2018

This month Microsoft have released a new production ready version of Power BI Report Server that includes bookmarking, syncing slidcers and quick measures.

Bookmarking allows you to capture the currently configured view of a report page, including filtering and the state of visuals and allows you to go back to them later by selecting the “bookmark”. Great for a telling a story in a presentation!

Bookmarks in Power BI

Quick measures is a new feature that lets you quickly create new measures based on other fields in your table. These new measures become part of your model and can be used in any of your charts, just like manually created DAX calculations. You can also see the underlying DAX and edit it if you need to tweak the results.

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Below, you’ll find a summary of all the features added in this release with links to more detailed information.

Visuals

Reporting

Analytics

Query editing

Performance improvements

Other improvements

Download it from here

Power BI Desktop Updates March 2018

Microsoft have made some big releases for Power BI desktop including making some of the most popular connectors generally available including SAP HANA with Direct Query multidimensional support. There a bunch of custom visuals as well as a tool tips preview and the general availability of bookmarking functionality that was initially introduced last October. Check out the video below for more:

Here’s the complete list of March updates:

Reporting

Custom visuals

Data connectivity

Other

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