Power BI RoundUp – Webinar on Advanced Data Prep – Data Flows in Power BI – On-Premise Data Gateway Update – New Power BI Regions in Azure – General Availability of Custom & Certified Data Connectors
Here is my weekly Power BI related round up, I hope that you find this information relevant and keeps you up to date with everything that is happening with regards to Power BI.
Power BI – Webinar on Advanced Data Prep with Dataflows
There is an upcoming Webinar on 13 November 2018, where Anton Fritz will introduce you to what Power BI Data Flows are and how they can be used.
The Webinar details can be found here: With Power BI dataflows for unified data and powerful insights
Blog – Dataflows in Power BI
If you are interested in Power BI Dataflows, Matthew Roche from the Power BI team has a series of 6 blog posts where he goes into a lot more details on data flows, what they are and how they can be used.
I have read all of them and I would recommend reading through them if you are interested in how you can leverage Power BI dataflows going forward.
As well as hit the ground running.
Blog post details here: Dataflows in Power BI
Power BI – On-Premise Data Gateway Update for Nov
There is an update for the On-Premise Data Gateway for November, where they have updated the Gateway with the following:
- Enhancements to the Vertica and OData connectors
- Public preview for the SAP HANA & BW Single Sign On (Kerberos) Support
- Improved Diagnostics
- October 2018 Mashup Engine
You can find all the details here: On-premises data gateway October update is now available
Power BI – New Power BI Regions
It was announced this week that you can now get Power BI in 3 new Azure Regions which are:
- Central India
- Australia East
- Central US (Iowa)
You can find more details here: New Power BI regions in India, Australia, and the United States
Power BI – General Availability of Custom & Certified Data Connectors
Custom & Certified data connectors are now generally available in the Power BI Service.
This will now allow you to not only connect to any data source but also have the functionality to be able to refresh the data via the On-Premise Data Gateway
You can find more details here: Announcing General Availability of Custom and Certified Connectors for Power BI