Power BI Updates and Roadmap 2020

• Power BI has added data integration and other capabilities to become a full-service BI platform that will interest enterprises.
• The breadth of features introduces deployment and management complexity, similar to traditional on-premises environments.
• Power BI components will be continually updated with a focus on data integration, data modeling, and features for large-scale environments.

Power BI has matured in the past four years from simply providing tools to create and share reports into a sophisticated end-to-end business intelligence (BI) platform that can replace an on-premises BI environment. However, the high-end capabilities require Premium-level subscriptions, and customers adopting the high-end capabilities must also adopt an enterprise approach to using the service, including proper architecture, security, and deployment planning; training for IT support staff; and ongoing administrative maintenance and performance tuning.

Service Overview

Power BI is Microsoft’s BI offering. It contains several tightly integrated software and Microsoft-hosted components, which are used collectively to build data models and datasets and create and share reports, dashboards, and other BI content. (Power BI components are detailed in the illustration “Power BI Components Overview.”)