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Announcing Power BI Embedded Generation 2 public preview
Target availability: Q3 2021
We are announcing the second generation of Power BI Embedded, referred to as Embedded Gen 2, is available for its Azure subscribers to use during the public preview period. All of the Power BI Embedded Gen 1 capabilities such as pausing and resuming the capacity, are preserved in Gen 2 and the price per SKU remains the same, however the Gen 2 capacity resource provides substantial improvements in performance, scale and much more.
November 2020
Power BI dynamic M query parameter support
Power BI dynamic M query parameter allows users to explicitly inject filters at the designated place in the query and improve query performance by a few factors, especially when the report is built on top of a very big dataset, or using complex query logic.
September 2020
Start using Power BI Embedded to access, share and distribute content easily
Target retirement date: August 31, 2021
We’re retiring Power BI Workspace Collection on 31 August 2021.
December 2018
Power BI service December update
Power BI dataflows and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 integration is in preview
Paginated reports in Power BI is in preview
Paginated reports functionality is now available in Power BI Premium, allowing you to view and interact with your pixel-perfect paginated reports alongside your existing Power BI interactive reports in the Power BI portal.
November 2018
Power BI service update
The latest update to the Power BI services includes the preview of dataflows and paginated reports in Power BI.
October 2018
Power BI service update
The latest update to the Power BI service includes new and exciting capabilities including the public preview of petabyte-scale aggregations built on composite models.
Power BI Desktop October update
The October 2018 update for Power BI Desktop includes support in the Power BI service for both our composite model and aggregation previews.
September 2018
Latest update to the Power BI service
The latest update to the Power BI service includes dashboard comments and Premium Capacity Monitoring app.
Power BI Desktop September
We have a preview of aggregations for Power BI that allow you to seamlessly store only summarized values in memory without having to load your entire dataset into Power BI, greatly improving the performance of your reports.
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