Posts categorized: Announcements

“Data in space” in preview: Now Power BI can be truly everywhere

We live in a connected world and almost everything around us generates data. Data in Space is new feature that uses augmented reality to create persistent spatial anchors in the real world and attach Power BI content to those anchors. Data in space connects your business data to your real-world scenarios in facility management, manufacturing, retail and many more, and now employees can easily discover and use it for better, and more informed decisions.

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Announcing general availability of the ExecuteQueries REST API

We are happy to announce that the ExecuteQueries REST API is now GA. By using this REST API, you can query datasets in Power BI from practically any modern environment on any platform, as long as you can authenticate with Azure Active Directory (AAD) and construct a Web request. The query functionality is comparable to XMLA read access, yet avoids dependencies on Analysis Services client libraries, requires no connection to XMLA endpoints, and works in Premium workspaces as well as in ordinary workspaces.

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Announcing general availability of automatic aggregations

Today, we are excited to announce General Availability (GA) of automatic aggregations, along with several important improvements. By using automatic aggregations in Power BI Premium, you can unlock cloud-scale data volumes for interactive analysis. Automatic aggregations import data into the dataset only at the aggregated level while leaving the detail data at the source to minimize data duplication. In this way, most BI queries can benefit from Power BI’s blazing fast query performance in import mode, while occasional detail queries can still work transparently against the data source in DirectQuery mode.

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