My updates on the Power BI March release

Hello everyone Please see below a big list of things which happened on Power BI this month! My highlights are:

Power BI -          Preview of the external dashboard sharing. This has been a top voted feature in the PowerBI user voice. If Project team is using it well, we may have great outcome of the Project uservoice. The access can then be managed on a person bases and the overall functionality can be disabled in the O365 admin centre -          You can now add widget in any dashboard, this will allow to embed any code in your dashboard like a YouTube video (why not) -          Allowing touch zoom for touch screens on dashboards And more here https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-february-service-update/

Power BI Desktop Again, a new version of PowerBI Desktop has been released including; -          Ability to see data behind a visual and export it to CSV -          Support navigation hierarchy, KPI and display folder from SSAS -          New exciting visual allowing to see a KPI with its trend, I see a great value! -          Ability to define your own hierarchies to allow drill-down in the reports like (Portfolio, Project, Program or Year, Quarter, Month) -          DirectQuery Mode – Support for creating Calculated Columns And more here  https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-update-lots-of-new-authoring-features-and-a-new-power-bi-desktop-update/

Power BI Mobile -          New Landscape mode for android    -          Ability to interact with reports directly from the phone -          Ability now to consume reports on phones starting with IPhone and Android! More here https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-mobile-apps-update-february-2016/

Power BI Gateway Power BI gateways are here to help connect on-prem data to the online world the enterprise gateway has been updated this month with: -          live connection to Oracle ad Teradata -          scheduled refresh for most of data sources (SQL Server, Teradata, Oracle, DB2, MySQL, Sybase, SAP HANA, OData, Web, Files and Folders on-premises, and SharePoint list on-premises) More on the gateway here https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-gateway-february-2016-update/

My 2 cents I have made some tests of some cool visuals this month including Waffle chart and Sankey report. Here is the result on resource assignments