December 2021 Updates for Power BI
17 December 2021
This month’s updates see a new sparklines Preview feature, several new Format Pane updates, e-mail subscription access via Admin API and numerous other useful features.
Reporting
- Sparklines Preview
- New Format Pane updates in Preview
Data Connectivity and Preparation
- Azure Data Explorer (connector update)
- FHIR (connector update)
- Dremio Software (connector update)
- BQE Core (connector update)
- TIBCO Data Virtualization Generally Available
- Exasol (connector update)
- Starburst Enterprise (connector update)
Service
- Administration and governance: email subscriptions access via Admin API
- Allow sharing links to include your changes to the report
- Announcing Preview of Hybrid Tables in Power BI Premium
- Deployment pipelines: assign a workspace to all pipeline stages
Mobile
- New Report default view
- Recommended Content supports hints (Android and iOS)
- Mobile support for Goals: latest updates
Embedded Analytics
- Support Power BI dataset as a data source for embedding paginated reports
- Client API updates: Themes
- Azure Power BI Embedded A7 and A8 capacity nodes self-service
- Developers
- Improve your matrix performance with the new 4.1 API
Visualisations
- New visuals in AppSource
- Shielded HTML Viewer by Nova Silva
- graphomate charts 2021.4
- Zebra BI Cards 1.0 by Zebra BI
- Leverage process mining through Business Intelligence by PmBI
- Drill Down Combo Bar PRO by ZoomCharts
- Paginated report visual Generally Available
- Charticulator (version 1.2.0)
Other
- Visualise your data quickly from Power Apps and Dynamics 365 apps.
As always, we'll be detailing these updates in our January newsletter. Please remember we have virtual / online training in Power BI which you can find out more about here. If you are not already a subscriber, why not sign up at the bottom of any SumProduct web page? And don't forget to download the latest version of Power BI Desktop here too.