I love these updates, it’s like Christmas comes every month!!  This month we get a ton of really great features, I for one am super pumped to get into the tool and checking it out.

Here are a couple of highlights you should check out.  First up, matrix & tables now support conditional formatting for TEXT!!!  Definitely long over due, but I’m happy it’s here.  In one of my recent projects we had a horrible time trying to get the subtotals working correctly in the matrix visual.  So much so that we had to abandon the matrix view all together.  Now it looks like with this months update there is a substantial improvement to how subtotals work.

Lastly, I think the most important update and I think the best feature for this month’s update What-if Parameters…  I haven’t played with this much, but from what I know this is going to be awesome!  I would be willing to be the heavy analyst is going to love this feature.

Here is the full video of all the updates for this August, Enjoy.

If you want to review the full August release for PowerBI Desktop, you can hit the PowerBI Blog here.

This month we have a big release for Power BI Desktop and for the Power BI service.  There are a number of great new features.  For the everyday user you will love the new Data bars for the new table & matrix visualizations.  For me this really feels like a feature that is making tables and the matrix views feel more like the pivot table and formatting that can be done in excel.  Great Job Microsoft!

For the developer who want to who may be using Rest APIs you should definitely check out the newly added feature called Custom Data Connectors.  There was an announcement last month which now opens up the world for developers to write custom connectors right in Visual Studio.

The full June release is described in the video below:

For the full blog write up hit this link.

For more details about the custom data connector follow these links for more resources:

Data Connectors GitHub repo

Data Connector technical reference

M Library functions

M Language specification

It’s that exciting time of month again.  Time for another power BI desktop release.  This month here are a couple of good highlights you should check out.

1. First up enhanced tables with word wrapping in both headers and table rows.  Woot Woot, I have really needed this feature!
2. Clicking a row in the table will now allow filtering in other visuals.  Similar functionality to the matrix features that we already saw last month.
3. Enhanced URL links for tables.  This on is interesting.  If you are an ad agency you should really pay attention to this one.  This allows you to embed a mailto command directly in a table.  Then you can click the link to send an email to someone directly from Power BI, perfect for following with a sales leads.
4. Combo charts label density.  This feature is one I can really stand behind. Frankly, I didn’t know I needed it, but now that I have seen the light, this will be awesome.

For the full Power BI Desktop release here is the full announcement.

If you want to watch the full video for the release you can see the full video below:

Download the latest release of Power BI Desktop here.

With another month comes another exciting release of PowerBI desktop.  This month we have a number of really interesting features releases.  One of the more interesting feature releases you should definitely check out is the Add Column by Example.  I have seen a demo of this feature and can definitely see the potential for speeding up the data cleansing process in the query editor.  I’ve also included the YouTube video below for this feature.

To read about the full release from Microsoft hit the link here.

The April 2017 Update:

Check out the Add Column by Example demo:

For other great Power BI videos click the image below:

The long awaited PowerBI Desktop release is here.  I’d like to point out a couple of key features that will help you improve your reports.  First, the addition of word wrap on row headers.  The tutorial for working with row headers is found here.  A second feature that will help beginner users is the addition of two new Quick Calcs.  The Quick Calcs allow you run calculations within a visual without the need to write a DAX measure.  It’s nice to see some of the more common calculations being added as standard features.

For the full release notes from Microsoft follow this link.

Quick Calculations:

For other great Power BI videos click the image below: