Power BI: 2021 Release Wave 2 - Key Dates
Microsoft business intelligence helps drive a data culture where everyone at every level of an organisation can make confident data-driven decisions.
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To enable organisations to drive a data culture, Microsoft is investing in three key areas:
Empower every individual with instantly familiar experiences and AI-infused insights.
Empower every team with BI woven into the fabric of where teams work, making data a standard part of every decision and turning insights into actions.
Empower every organisation to meet the most demanding enterprise needs for scalability and governance.
Empower Every Individual
Power BI continues to innovate and make it easier than ever for everyone to work with data. To build a data culture, every single individual needs to have instantly familiar experiences combined with easy-to-discover insights. Whether that involves authors creating reports by using the free Power BI Desktop tool, or consumers exploring data in the Power BI service and mobile applications, or individuals in Microsoft 365 using data to make better decisions. Power BI has taken advantage of a lot of the AI advancements in Microsoft Research to help users find patterns in the vast amounts of data and insights that are readily available to use. Power BI will continue to empower every business user and business analyst to get deeper insights with AI-infused experiences. To ensure that those insights are available to everyone in the organisation, wherever they are and in context, Microsoft developed the world-leading mobile BI app and provided embedded capabilities for applications, websites and portals. This empowers individuals across an organisation to drive and grow the data culture.
Empower Every Team
Power BI makes data a standard part of every team's decision-making by deeply integrating BI into the places where teams work and infusing it into the most common collaboration experiences. Power BI integration in Microsoft Teams will continue to mature, deepening the integration in channels, chats, and notifications within Microsoft Teams. In addition, customers have indicated that they value the ability to quickly move from insight to action to automation. Microsoft Power Platform makes this uniquely possible with Power BI, Power Apps, and Power Automate. These products are natively designed to work together to make it easy for customers to adapt quickly to changing business requirements. Insights become more valuable as they're shared and integrating Power BI deeply with Microsoft 365 brings insights into where everyone works and collaborates.
Empower Every Organisation
Power BI can scale to meet the most demanding needs of large enterprise customers. With the centralised administration, governance and industry-leading security capabilities in Power BI, IT always has full visibility and control. Power BI Premium provides unmatched capabilities in a single integrated BI platform without requiring customers to string together and integrate multiple products with high costs and disjointed experiences. With Power BI Premium, Microsoft brings capabilities that were previously only available to professional data engineers in IT organisations to analysts, accelerating time to value and helping put more power in the hands of business. This balance between business and IT is one of the reasons why the world's largest organisations are increasingly standardising on Power BI and moving away from expensive, legacy BI products. With each release, Power BI Premium adds features that help organisations accelerate the delivery of insights at scale. These investments span many areas, such as Microsoft-owned resource management, auto-scale and pay-as-you-go pricing, advanced self-service data prep, interactive experiences over big data, and meeting advanced security and governance requirements.
Power BI Premium
Helping organisations unify self-service and enterprise BI at scale.
| Feature | Enabled For | Public Preview | General Availability |
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| Multiple Contributors to Power BI Dataflows | Users, automatically | Nov 2021 | |
| Chargeback reporting for Power BI Premium Admins | Admins, makers, marketers, analysts, automatically | March 2022 | |
| Improved refresh oversight for administrators | Admins, makers, marketers, analysts, automatically | March 2022 | |
| Long term historical and near real time performance and usage analytics | Users by admins, markers, analyst | June 2021 | Oct 2021 |
| Automatic aggregations | Admins, makers, marketers, analysts, automatically | - | Nov 2021 |
| Power BI dataflows in deployment pipelines | Users, automatically | June 2021 | Dec 2021 |
Power BI Pro
Encouraging a data culture by helping everyone discover and collaborate on insights.
| Feature | Enabled For | Public Preview | General Availability |
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| Export to Excel improvements for table and matrix visuals | Users, automatically | Oct 2021 | |
| Power BI datasets hub enhancements | Admins, makers, marketers or analysts, automatically | Oct 2021 | |
| Quick create on Microsoft Dataverse | Users by admins, makers or analysts | Oct 2021 | |
| Sparklines for tables and matrix visuals | Admins, makers, marketers or analysts, automatically | Dec 2021 | |
| Power BI integration with PowerPoint | Users by admins, makers or analysts | Jan 2022 | |
| Natural language to DAX generation | Admins, makers, marketers or analysts, automatically | Feb 2022 | |
| Artifact-level access for Power BI apps | Users by admins, makers or analysts | March 2022 | |
| Improved Power BI administration and operations | Admins, makers, marketers or analysts, automatically | March 2022 | |
| Release notifications in Power BI for administrators | Admins, makers, marketers or analysts, automatically | March 2022 | |
| Enhanced insights on report usage and performance | Admins, makers, marketers or analysts, automatically | - | Oct 2021 |
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