December 2023 Updates for Power BI

This month’s updates include various updates to reporting (e.g. more options for styling your column and bar charts) and improvements for inserting insert Power BI content into your PowerPoint presentations.

The full list of updates is as follows:

Reporting

• On-Object Interaction updates (in Preview)
• More styling options for Column and Bar charts
• Extended customisation for data labels
• Azure Maps clustering aggregation support for bubble layer
• Alerting on your Power BI reports with Data Activator

Data connectivity

• OneLake data hub in Power BI Desktop
• Power BI connector updates

Service

• Storytelling in PowerPoint: suggested content
• Ability to search and sort in paginated reports

Developers

• Power BI custom visuals authentication API
• Dynamic drill down API
• Git integration conflict resolution

Visualisations

• New visuals in AppSource
• Activity Gauge by Powerviz
• Navigate Financial Risks and Rewards with Profitbase’s Power BI Visualisation
• Intuitive multi-level Donut charts for your reports
• Inforiver Analytics+ 3.2
• The Microsoft Purview hub in Fabric for creators in Preview
• VideoPlayer Visual
• Ridgeline Plot by Powerviz.
  

As always, we'll be detailing these updates in our February newsletter.  Please remember we have virtual / online training in Power BI which you can find out more about here.  If you are not already a subscriber, why not sign up at the bottom of any SumProduct web page?  And don't forget to download the latest version of Power BI Desktop here too.