Power BI Desktop August 2019 Feature Summary

From updates to new features such as an icon set picker, to the highly anticipated grouping in reports, there are a lot of exciting updates in this month's Power BI Desktop update. Following on from July's release, following on from the Microsoft Business Application Summit, August is a continuation of the excitement of those releases. 

Reporting

• Grouping visuals
• Filter pane auto-update
• Icon style picker for Icons conditional formatting
• Conditional formatting warnings

Analytics

• Key influencers improvements
  • Measure support
  • General availability

Visualizations

• PowerApps visual is now certified
• xViz visualization suite by Visual BI
  • Multiple Axis chart
  • Marimekko chart
  • Variance chart
  • Horizon chart

Data connectivity

• Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 connector (beta)
• Support for SAP HANA HDI Containers
• Edit SAP variables in Power BI Service (preview)
• PostgreSQL DirectQuery (beta)
• MarkLogic connector now generally available
• New Power Platform category within Get Data

Template apps

• Facebook Pages – Basic Analytics

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