For Vancouver PowerBI user group - What's new and Exciting with PowerBI - 2018 best features review Following the Microsoft presentation and blog, edited for the user group in Vancouver BC

1. Yana Berkovich Data Platform MVP
@yana_Berkovich
YanaBerkovich.com
What’s new and Exciting?
PowerBI – 2018
5 out of 150!??

2. About Me
BI Analyst& DEV, DataPlatformMVP
Consultant, ProductManager
Member of BI, BA, SharePoint,O365, PM communities
Data PlatformConsultant
ExperimentingwithO365
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yanaberkovich
http://yanaberkovich.com
@Yana_Berkovich

3. There were 150 new features released by PowerBI in
2018

4. There were 150 new features released by PowerBI in
2018

5. There were 150 new features released by PowerBI in
2018

6. There were 150 new features released by PowerBI in
2018

7. • Governance and monitoring in Premium
• R & Python scripts
• Report page tooltip
• New Filter Experience or Drilling???
• Web connector or Connections???
• Data Flows

8. Premium –
Enabling Governance
• Metrics about all capacities in your
organization
• Premium Capacity Metrics app – query
metrics now available
• Entities
• System
• Dataset Workload
• Query Metrics

9. PowerBI
• Home Preview
– Let’s see
what’s I have
been up to
• Global Search

10. Report page tooltips - March
• Demo with customers product
mangers approval

11. R & Python custom script
• Novembers presentation –
Predictive Analytics with R
• (Joseph Yeates ,
http://feathersanalytics.com)
• Producing visuals on the fly for a
customer not deploy a solution
• Predictive analytics
• Showcase of some of the best
works:
• https://community.powerbi.com
/t5/R-Script-Showcase/bd-
p/RVisuals

12. New filter experience

13. Connecting data from everywhere
• Connecting directly to a
web page and…getting
the info
• Generally – more data
connections than ever
• Great emphasis on SAP

14. Data Flows
• ETL?
• The new way of taking the data
transformation straight from
the source
• Part of the workspace
• Synchronization

15. PowerBI Developer Center
• https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/developers/
All source code for visuals in GitHub
The 5 best a year in review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QLwM27fA_g
The latest Releases:
Playground and examples (Update)

16. Webinars/Blogs etc.. –
The Visual Power
• Custom Visuals for organization only
• Engine Diagnose visual
• PowerBI Blog Explaining how to add
those to your org (Deep Dive Org
custom Visuals)
• Playing Games with PowerBI – Creative
DAX Solution
• great webinar by Philip Seamark NZ
Streamed last week YouTube
• Premium Capacity – Builging Enterprise
Grade BI - Ignite
• Monitor PowerBI Capacity – Guy In The
Cube Ignite

17. Events
Twitter says that Ken is in Ignite World Tour - Toronto!
• SQL Saturday Redmond – Feb 9th
• New Zealand - February 2019 Difinity
• Business Application Summit – Atlanta Georgia June 2019