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Power BI 2022 release wave 2 October update
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What is Power BI?
Power BI is a business intelligence solution and part of the Microsoft Power Platform. Power BI helps the company's employees drive a data-based business culture across the company's departments and at all levels, so that they can make informed business strategic decisions based on data insight.
Power BI 2022 release wave 2
With the Power Platform 2022 release wave 2 upgrades to Power BI, Microsoft continues to invest in improving the application so that companies can incentivize and encourage the individual employee and team to contribute to a data-driven corporate culture where decisions are made on an informed basis.
In the Power BI 2022 release wave 2 upgrade wave, a number of improvements to Power BI are introduced, including:
- Improving the authoring user experience by aligning user experiences with Microsoft 365 and enabling dataset authoring on the web.
- Microsoft brings Power Query chart view into Power BI Desktop so developers can perform ETL on their data without having to write code.
- For teams, Microsoft brings improvements to Metrics focused on business needs and integration with Viva Goals.
- Additionally, enhancements such as scaling up abbig data user experience through automatic aggregations, query scaling out, data protection capabilities through DLP with improved visibility into activity for administrators are added.
Power BI Premium
The new functions that, as part of the Power Platform 2022 release wave 2, are delivered to Power BI Premium help companies to accelerate the delivery of data insights on a very large scale and meet the companies' most demanding needs.
| Function | Available for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Query scale-out | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | March 2023 | - |
| Data protection enhancements - highlighting centralized Power BI DLP policies | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | ✓ 30. april 2022 | December 2022 |
| Hybrid tables | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | March 2023 |
| Log analytics for analysis services engine events | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | March 2023 |
Power BI Pro
With the Power BI Pro 2022 upgrades, companies get additional help to create a data-driven corporate culture, where every single team and employee has the opportunity to discover and collaborate on the insights hidden in data.
| Function | Available for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Use an SDK to enable quick creation for third parties | Users, automatically | October2022 | - |
| Replace Get data experience in the Power BI service | Users, automatically | November 2022 | - |
| Dataset authoring in the Power BI Service | Users, automatically | December 2022 | - |
| Improvements to download Power BI for large models | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | December 2022 | - |
| Power Query Diagram view in Power BI Desktop | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | March 2023 | - |
| View Excel workbooks within dataset details and lineage views | Users, automatically | March 2023 | - |
| Improved setting delegation for Power BI administration | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | March 2023 | - |
| Usage and adoption insights for tenant admins | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | March 2023 | - |
| Mobile visual formatting | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | October2022 |
| Subscribe to reports with filters, slicers applied | Users, automatically | - | November 2022 |
| Export Power BI reports with custom visuals | Users, automatically | - | December 2022 |
| Create quick reports on datasets with multiple tables | Users, automatically | - | February 2023 |
| Create exportable formatted data tables | Users, automatically | ✓ 2. May 2022 | March 2023 |
Information about table descriptions
Function
Description of new function which is launched in Power BI 2022 release wave 2.
Available for
Description for which users the new function is available.
- Users, automatically: These features include changes to the user experience and are activated automatically.
- Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically: These features are intended to be used by admins, makers, marketers, or analysts and are activated automatically.
- Users by admins, makers, or analysts: These features must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers or business analysts to be available to their users.
Public preview
In the 'Public preview' column, indicate in which month the relevant new function, update or option for Power BI is released as a publicly available trial version. The release date of the specified trial version can be any day of the month in question.
General availability
In the right-most column 'General availability', it is indicated in which month the relevant new function, update or option for Power BI is delivered. The date of delivery of the specified function can be any day of the specified month.
Check mark
This symbol (✓) indicates which of the Features have already been released for public preview or early access and for public preview, early access and general availability.