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Announcing Power BI integration with Databricks Partner Connect

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Power BI Desktop customers can now visualize data in Delta Lake using Databricks with just a couple of clicks. In the past, connecting to Databricks from Power BI Desktop required the end user to perform a lot of manual configuration. Power BI Desktop integration with Databricks Partner Connect makes it simple to connect to Delta Lake so you can start doing analytics and sharing insights with your business. Databricks Partner Connect is a one-stop portal for customers to quickly and easily discover a broad set of certified data, analytics, and AI tools and easily integrate them with Databricks. Integration with Microsoft Power BI Desktop is included at launch, and many more integrations are coming in the months ahead. Connecting Power BI Desktop to Databricks used to require a lot of complex configuration. With Partner Connect, you can just download a connection file that contains all the information you need to connect to Databricks, removing the need for complex config

Power BI November 2021 Feature Summary

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Welcome to the November 2021 update. The team has been hard at work delivering mighty features before the year ends and we are thrilled to release new format pane preview feature, page and bookmark navigators, new text box formatting options, pie, and donut chart rotation. There is more to explore, please continue to read on.   Reporting New Format Pane Page and Bookmark Navigators Page Navigator Bookmark Navigator Formatting options Sort legend Bold/italic/underline for text formatting Text box super/subscript and bulleted lists Pie and donut chart rotation Scorecard visual Update on tenant-level Bing Maps feature switch Data connectivity and preparation Azure Synapse Analytics (New Connector) Google Sheets (New Connector) Azure Cosmos DB V2 (New Connector) Delta Sharing (New Connector) Google BigQuery (Connector Update) Cognite Data Fusion (Connector Update) Dremio Cloud (Connector Update) Service Admin & governance Datasets hub improvements Azure Lockbox Support fo