December 2022 Updates for Power BI

The latest updates see Microsoft add a slew of DAX functions (well, three anyway!), improve slicer type formatting and bring Metrics to the Windows application.  The complete list for this month is as follows:

Reporting

• Slicer type formatting moved to Format pane

Modelling

• Making it easier to do comparison calculations (introducing the INDEX, OFFSET and WINDOW DAX functions)

Data connectivity and preparation

• Anaplan (connector update)
• Azure Databricks, Databricks (connector update)
• CData Connect Cloud (new connector)
• Cosmos DB V2 (new connector)
• Dremio Cloud (connector update)
• Google BigQuery (Azure AD) (new connector)

Service

• Power BI org app Multiple Audiences will be Generally Available next year
• Announcing the deprecation of ‘Getting Started’ in the Expanded View of Power BI Service
• Upcoming changes to the ‘Get Data’ experience in Power BI Service

Mobile

• Track your Metrics on the Windows app

Developers

• Dynamically setting data chunk size

Visualisations

• New visuals in AppSource
• Update on Charticulator status.

As always, we'll be detailing these updates, but this time, in our February newsletter, due to the holidays catching us out.  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.