#PowerJanta – Power BI May 2023 Feature Summary

Restarting the old #PowerJanta series where I noted down key features that I liked the most. Here is my selection of noteworthy highlights from Microsoft Power BI May 2023 Feature Summary.

Special Announcements for Microsoft Fabric!

• Power BI Direct Lake mode is in public preview

  • Microsoft introduces Direct Lake mode for datasets on Fabric Lake houses, providing fast query performance, avoiding data duplication, and reducing data integration costs.
    

• Announcing the renaming of the Power BI Free user license

  • The Power BI Free user license has been renamed to the Microsoft Fabric Free user license to reflect its inclusion within Microsoft Fabric, without any changes to its functionalities.

Reporting

• Azure Maps is now Generally Available

  • • The Azure Maps visual is now Generally Available and has got a new style.

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  Current Style                                              New Style

         

• Measure driven data labels

  • Custom data labels for your charts, this is something that was launched few weeks back on service. Has some good use cases especially when you want to show X measure but plot Y measure
    

Modeling

• New DAX functions: MATCHBY

  • • MATCHBY extends the capabilities of window functions further

  EVALUATE
  ADDCOLUMNS (
  FactInternetSales,
  "Previous Sales Amount",
  SELECTCOLUMNS (
  OFFSET (
  -1,
  FactInternetSales,
  ORDERBY ( FactInternetSales[SalesAmount], DESC ),
  PARTITIONBY ( FactInternetSales[ProductKey] ),
  MATCHBY( FactInternetSales[SalesOrderNumber], FactInternetSales[SalesOrderLineNumber] )
  ),
  FactInternetSales[SalesAmount]
  )
  )
  

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Image Credits: Microsoft’s Official Power BI May 2023 Feature Summary