PowerBI User group Vancouver monthly update on new and exciting features

1. Yana Berkovich Data Platform MVP
@yana_Berkovich
YanaBerkovich.com
What’s new and Exciting?
March 2019

2. About Me
BI Analyst& DEV, DataPlatformMVP
Consultant, ProductManager
Member of BI, BA, SharePoint,O365, PM communities
Data PlatformConsultant
ReportingstreamLead – PHSA
Canadian Citizen!!!!
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yanaberkovich
http://yanaberkovich.com
@Yana_Berkovich

3. Back to Report Builder! Paginated Reports
• New way of building “SSRS” reports as
part of PowerBI
• Have you noticed the new options for
download?
• Detailed how to build?
• 10 reasons to download and use
paginated report – Chris Finlan
• So where is the Publish button?
In Premium 

4. Desktop – April 10th
• Filter Pane
• Full Editing
• Removal of the old
version (for preview)
• Scale with report page
• Rename filters
• Restrict ability to change
filter types
• Accessibility improve -
Shift+F10 to open the
context menu

5. Conditional Formatting
• Conditional formatting for visual titles – using DAX
• Conditional formatting for URL’s & Buttons
• Expression based formatting video- BIElite

6. More Features
• Key Influencers visual now supports
continuous analysis for numeric targets
• Partial synonym matching for terms in
Q&A
• New DAX function – ALLCROSSFILTERED
• Slideshow in presentation mode for
Windows Power BI app
• New multiple dimension Gauge (Why?!)

7. Analytics Recognition Data Pipeline
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/industry-benchmark-recognizes-microsofts-unmatched-analytics/

8. Premium News -
Enabling Cognitive Services and Automated ML in
your Power BI Premium Subscription
• Enable automatic ML https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-
us/blog/enabling-cognitive-services-and-automated-ml-in-
your-power-bi-premium-subscription/

9. Webinars/Blogs etc..
• How to predict values from
a custom R model - Luca
Zavarella
• Dynamics 365 & PowerBI
API revised - The Crm
Chap
• Guy in a cube
PowerBI Blog
Guy in a cube
Free Training Avi Singh
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-
us/developers/
All source code for visuals in GitHub
Join the Research Panel – March 14th
PowerBI Where
Should I start?
This month favorites

10. Events
Data Platform Summit India:
https://dataplatformgeeks.com/dps2019
Redmond SQL Saturday back from the
snowmagedon! April 27th
https://www.sqlsaturday.com/807/eventhome.as
px
SQL PASS find
event: https://www.pass.org/AttendanEvent/F
indAnEvent.aspx
Women in Technology events
Azure ML vs PowerBI
https://wit.pass.org/default.aspx?EventID=13
103
Business Application summit
Build 2019
https://register.build.microsoft.
com/