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Power BI Desktop August 2019 Feature Summary
Jesse Lawrence
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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