Power BI Desktop December Feature Summary

This month Microsoft is very excited to integrate our Q&A experience into the reporting canvas, offering a whole new way to create your visuals. Microsoft  is also updating the bookmarking preview with new features that provide you much more flexibility. A highly requested feature, the ability to drill to filter other visuals on the page, is also coming out this month. You can take advantage of several new connectors and major updates to existing ones.

Power BI Desktop December Feature Summary: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-december-feature-summary/

Here’s the complete list of December updates:

Reporting

• Q&A for report creation
• Cross-highlighting for bookmarks
• More bookmark flexibility
• Field properties pane and field descriptions
• Scatter visual from x- & y-axis groupings
• High density sampling for maps based on latitude and longitude
• Responsive slicers
• New custom visuals
  • Card Browser
  • Table Heatmap
  • Data Image by CloudScope
  • Power KPI Matrix
  • Text Filter
  • ChartAccent – LineChart
  • ChartAccent – BarChart

Analytics

• Drill filters other visuals

Data connectivity

• Adobe Analytics connector
• HDInsight Interactive Query connector
• Data.World connector
• SAP BW connector improvements:
  • Support for connecting to an SAP BW Message Server
  • Support for Windows Authentication
• IBM Netezza connector is now generally available

For a summary of the major updates, you can watch the following video: